Having always wanted to go to Tasmania, I was very happy to receive a request to publish 4 Awesome Things to do in Tasmania! I’m hanging on every word, and trying to plan when I can go! Tasmania is an isolated island state off Australia’s southern coast, and is known for its vast, rugged wilderness areas, largely protected within parks and reserves. Sounds like a perfect vacation, doesn’t it?
[Read more…] about 4 Awesome Things to Do in Tasmania!Celebrate World Wildlife Day with a Gift to our Big Cats!
From the Official Website of the UN World Wildlife Day: “On 20 December 2013, at its 68th session, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) proclaimed 3 March, the day of signature of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), as UN World Wildlife Day to celebrate and raise awareness of the world’s wild animals and plants. The UNGA resolution also designated the CITES Secretariat as the facilitator for the global observance of this special day for wildlife on the UN calendar. World Wildlife Day has now become the most important global annual event dedicated to wildlife.
World Wildlife Day will be celebrated in 2018 under the theme “Big cats: predators under threat”.
I am so fortunate that I have had the opportunity to see big cats in the wild. Not everyone gets that chance, but everyone can help! Here are some suggestions to help protect threatened big cats!
SIGN A PETITION TO INDONESIA ASKING THAT SUMATRA, HOME TO MANY ENDANGERED SPECIES, BE PROTECTED INSTEAD OF TURNED INTO PALM OIL PLANATATIONS! https://www.change.org/p/protect-elephant-tiger-and-orangutan-habitats-in-sumatra
SPEAK WITH YOUR DOLLARS. 10 REASONS TO SKIP YOUR NEXT ZOO VISIT.
DID YOU KNOW THAT TEXAS HAS THE LARGEST POPULATION OF EXOTIC (WILD) PETS? WILD ANIMALS ARE SUPPOSED TO LIVE IN THE WILD. DO NOT CONTRIBUTE IN ANY WAY TO THE EXOTIC PET TRADE! What happens to these poor animals when their novelty wears off? Or when they are imported so rich people can say they shot a lion? http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/fatal-attractions/lists/facts-exotic-pet-trade/
Donate to:
World Wildlife Fund at https://www.worldwildlife.org/?utm_campaign=301-redirects&utm_source=wwf.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=wwf.org
Big Cats Initiative: https://donate.nationalgeographic.org/17-bc-adw?gclid=Cj0KCQiAieTUBRCaARIsAHeLDCThxcpiv7jYRhRu_urhAlVkOOUgzBCdrzPzd0SIUixwZNZxE36wdGkaAovPEALw_wcB
Cheetah Conservation Fund: https://cheetah.org/
Wild Conservation Society: https://www.wcs.org/our-work/wildlife/big-cats
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Buy Biodegradable Straws!!! Straws Kill Wildlife.
I hope you watch the video and realize, PLASTIC KILLS WILDLIFE. We must make ourselves STOP using straws, plastic cutlery, plastic plates. We simply must go biodegradable. We have to carry straws with us, and if we forget, we cannot use plastic. Have no tolerance at fast food restaurants, restaurants, home…anywhere! BUY BIODEGRADABLE.
Check out this article from The Center for Biological Diversity. Here are the facts:
- Fish in the North Pacific ingest 12,000 to 24,000 tons of plastic each year, which can cause intestinal injury and death and transfers plastic up the food chain to bigger fish and marine mammals.
- Sea turtles also mistake floating plastic garbage for food. While plastic bags are the most commonly ingested item, loggerhead sea turtles have been found with soft plastic, ropes, Styrofoam, and monofilament lines in their stomachs. Ingestion of plastic can lead to blockage in the gut, ulceration, internal perforation and death; even if their organs remain intact, turtles may suffer from false sensations of satiation and slow or halt reproduction.
- Hundreds of thousands of seabirds ingest plastic every year. Plastic ingestion reduces the storage volume of the stomach, causing birds to consume less food and ultimately starve. Nearly all Laysan albatross chicks — 97.5 percent — have plastic pieces in their stomachs; their parents feed them plastic particles mistaken for food. Based on the amount of plastic found in seabird stomachs, the amount of garbage in our oceans has rapidly increased in the past 40 years.
- Marine mammals ingest and get tangled in plastic. Large amounts of plastic debris have been found in the habitat of endangered Hawaiian monk seals, including in areas that serve as pup nurseries. Entanglement deaths are severely undermining recovery efforts of this seal, which is already on the brink of extinction. Entanglement in plastic debris has also led to injury and mortality in the endangered Steller sea lion, with packing bands the most common entangling material. In 2008 two sperm whales were found stranded along the California coast with large amounts of fishing net scraps, rope and other plastic debris in their stomachs.
Are you tired of hearing that our oceans are in crisis? Too bad, because it is true. Did you know our oceans are 30% more acidic than they were 100 years ago? Did you know that 4 out of the 5 mass extinctions on earth took place when oceans became too acidic? Animals in our oceans are paramount to our ecosystem, our very lives. We have to start caring about other species, or we will destroy ourselves.
Let’s all replace plastic with biodegradables. Please check out this link to Amazon’s biodegradable straws! Remember, we all need to #startwith1thing. What 1 thing will you start with????
Don’t forget to buy products made from Ocean Plastic like Method Home! CLICK HERE TO BUY!