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What Has Happened to the Ocean’s Plastic Trash?
By: Elizabeth Paulat
Many of us have seen the photos of plastic refuse in the ocean, the large islands of bags and waste that collect at tidal crossroads. Yet when scientists took a survey of the ocean earlier this year, they found a suspicious amount had disappeared. Was it just our good luck that pollution was decreasing? Hardly. It had simply been sinking, breaking apart and embedding itself…
North Bend teacher gets fellowship to study sea turtles in Costa Rica
Katrina Alegado, an eighth grade science teacher at Twin Falls Middle School, has been accepted into Ecology Project International’s Marine Education Fellowship in Costa Rica, April 18 to 25.
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Seal found 20 miles inland after swimming the wrong way
The distressed seal was stranded in the middle of a field in Newton-le-Willows, near St Helens, Merseyside
Seal washed up in a field in Newton-le-Willows near Warrington, Cheshire Photo: Liverpool Echo
By: Emily Gosden, and agencies
A seal had to be rescued from a field more than 20 miles inland – after apparently getting “very, very lost”.
The seal, which was discovered in Newton-le-Willows,…
Mexico wants to ban nets, save endangered porpoise
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities are proposing a $37 million plan to ban gillnet fishing in most of the upper Sea of Cortez to save the critically endangered vaquita marina, the world’s smallest porpoise.
The plan would compensate fishermen for stopping the use of nets that often sweep up the tiny porpoises along with their catch.
Recent reports suggest there are fewer than 100 of the…
Hippo silhouette at sunrise. Birds along for the ride. .
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Marbled White Butterfly, Friston Forest by Alan MacKenzie
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© 2015 Alan Mackenzie. www.alanmackenziephotography.comFacebook Living on the south coast means windy weather. Windy weather means unsharp butterfly photos. I had to wait until rather late, for the wind to disappear. Even so, I always use sticks and clothes pegs to stabilise plant stems, as even a slight movement can ruin a macro shot. This is a female. I think the females are more attractive than the males, whose wings have less relief and indistinct markings. My journey to Friston Forest featured some interesting sights, including a man walking backwards along the pavement, a gentleman on the bus wearing Doc Martens on the wrong feet and an elderly chap dressed as a duck, playing the keyboard in the middle of a field.
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Pool Frog (Pelophylax Lessonae) by Sharon Dow
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The pool frog (Pelophylax lessonae) is a European frog. It is one of only four amphibian species recognized by the UK government as protected under its Biodiversity Action Plan. The reasons for declining populations are decreased pond habitat from human encroachment and also air pollution leading to over-nitrification of pond waters. Its specific name was chosen by the Italian herpetologist Lorenzo Camerano in order to honour his master Michele Lessona. The Pool Frog has not always been recognised as a native British species. Part of the reason for this is that other similar species are known to have been introduced. However research has now shown that a native origin is most likely. The Herpetological Conservation Trust website states that "The Pool Frog is a European frog and was formerly recorded from two sites in East Anglia although it was lost from one of these in the middle of the 19th century. It was presumed extinct in the wild at the last remaining site by 1995. A single individual known from this population survived in captivity until 1999. Other populations have become established in the UK and it is known that some of these included individuals of British origin in their founding stock." An English Nature reintroduction project is underway in Breckland, where Pool Frogs were introduced to a single site in 2005. Photographed at Warnham Nature Reserve, Hoersham, West Sussex
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Leave part of your lawn uncut this spring, the flowers, bees & butterflies will thank you #30DaysWild #nature #Springwatch #wildlife
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Absolutely amazing and rustic remains of the old buildings built by balancing huge slabs of slate.
Snowdonia, Wales
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Pantaloon bee (Dasypoda hirtipes)
They get their name from the females’ oversized orange pollen brushes on their hind legs, which give the impression of a bee wearing some large jazzy pantaloons.
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