Growing cities, overuse of fertilizers, and factory wastewater have degraded China’s water supplies to the extent that half the nation’s rivers and lakes are severely polluted. See more photos here.
There’s different colors representing different sea creatures ❤️
Just a little reminder that the US Military is the world’s biggest polluter. The fight against ecological disaster must include fighting the war machine!
Buy Poseidon devotional jewelry from here to help save the oceans boom
guys it gets even better! not only are they cleaning up our oceans, which in and of itself would be AMAZING, but they’re using their project to better the world in other ways too, including:
employing local women in Bali for 80% of their workforce
offering a Closed-Loop program for customers to return broken/worn out products (they have stuff other than bracelets too!) to be recycled again
donating $25,000 to Monterey Bay Aquarium for sea otter conservation, another $25,000 to Global Penguin Society, $10,000 to Ric O’Barry’s Dolphin Project, $25,000 to Captains For Clean Water to support Everglades restoration, $25,000 to The Marine Mammal Center in Hawaii for the care of critically endangered Hawaiian Monk Seals, $20,000 to BirdLife International for seabird conservation, $24,528 to Earth Day network to support the Canopy Project - a global campaign to plant 7.8 billion trees by 2020, and more
additionally, “donated $21,325 in 2018 and will donate another $10,000 in 2019 to support the production of powerful media and art that drive crucial conservation wins while giving people hope and inspiring them to act”
if you can’t afford $20 for their fundraising bracelets, they do have other recycled products available, and at the very least please reblog this to boost awareness! here’s the link to their site again:
Mid-summer is prime-time for Australia’s ‘Citrus Swallowtails’
As some of you have already posted – many of them are in their final days of being caterpillars, many have turned into chrysalises, or have even emerged and are once again on-the-wing busily visiting garden Citrus – looking for new places to start their next generation.
As modern chemical technology has become so incredibly effective, long-lasting and impacting on ALL insects (including butterflies and other pollinators) – it is timely to remind as many gardeners as we can to hold-off from spraying – and allow these special insects to co-exist with us.
By allowing them to live alongside us – hopefully many future generations of Australian’s will also learn to appreciate and enjoy these natural wonders?
Try surviving with out plastic, it’s easier than you think, cheaper in the long run and a simple way to support the environment… be an activist by making small changes to you life.
On #EarthDay and every day, we make an effort to acknowledge that we stand on land that is part of the unceded, ancestral homeland of the Lenape (Delaware) people. We are committed to addressing exclusions and erasures of Indigenous peoples, and confronting the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism in our work. By actively seeking collaborators, experience and perspectives from Indigenous communities, we work to ensure that our programming, resources and the ongoing community fostered at the Museum is inclusive of Native people.
Indigenous communities across the country have endured the catastrophic impacts of climate change but the situation has an even longer history rooted in the legacies of European colonialism. The artworks shown here are just a few examples of the varied and complex worldviews expressed by Indigenous artists impacted by environmental destruction.
These objects are part of “Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas,” on view in the Arts of the Americas Galleries on the fifth floor. The exhibit follows the effects of glacial melt, droughts, wildfires, overexploitation of resources, displacement, and extreme violence, as well as the work being done by Indigenous community organizers to counter the climate crisis and protect the planet.
The Malayan tapir is the only tapir to inhabit Asia out of the five other tapir species. It is also the biggest out of the five, with and average weight between 250 and 320 kg (550 and 710 lb). The female tapir is usually larger than the male.
Malayan Tapirs rely on their excellent hearing ability due to their poor eye sight. This makes it extremely difficult for them to search for food and avoid predators. However, despite its bulky body, they can run very fast.
These animals are very independent and dominant large areas of lands for themselves by urinating on surrounding plants. They choose their habitats near water where they bathe. Malayan tapirs are herbivorous and eats exclusively shoots and leaves.
The Malayan tapir used to inhabit areas all around Asian rein forests, however, they are now endangered toward extinction. This is due to mostly deforestation, but they are also being used for illegal trade and are hunted for sport.
Despite the clouded leopard’s name, it is not closely related to the leopard and is the smallest of the big cats. The clouded leopard inhabits the Himalayan mountains and various parts of Asia.
Spending their lives in solitude, the clouded leopard spends most of it’s days in trees and hunts at night. Monitoring the cat is difficult because of their habitat being within densely populated trees. Because of this, not much is known about their behavior in the wild.
Mating habits are very interesting as males are very aggressive during their encounters. So much so, that they bite the neck of the female severing her vertebrae. When given birth, the male is not included in raising the kittens.
The clouded leopard is threatened do to habitat deforestation, commercial poaching, and being used in traditional Asian medicines(There is no scientific proof that these medicines are beneficial.)
when will we choose our oceans over plastic?! made this in partnership with @no_plasticwaste&@minderoofoundation#repost“There will be one tonne of plastic for every three tonnes of fish, not by 2050, by 2025. That’s around the corner.” -Minderoo Foundation Chairman, Andrew Forrest. It’s time to take a stand for our oceans. #NoPlasticWaste#oceanconservation#singleusesucks
