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Recycle Your Bottles, Build A Boat!
It Sailed 15,000km from San Francisco to Sydney Harbour |
The boat was named Plastiki and was built using plastic bottles and organic glue, to raise awareness of the increasing environmental damage being caused by plastics around the world. Other parts of the catamaran, like the sails, are made out of recycled materials.
The Big Butterfly Count
The High Brown Fritillary |
With 58 different species of butterfly and more than 2,500 moths, the British countryside was once littered with these delicate, colourful animals but today half of our native moth and butterfly species are threatened in the wild, and 64 have become extinct in the last century.
Leaping Whale Lands On Yacht
Copyright bbc.co.uk |
An unsuspecting couple who where whale-whaling on their yacht, claim to have had a lucky escape when a 10m long Southern Right Whale leapt out of the water before colliding with their boat and sliding back into the ocean blue.
The Rarest Animals In The World
The Rare Vancouver Island Marmot |
But, at a time when we are becoming more aware of the destruction we have caused and are looking more and more to conserving the world's habitats, how many of us actually know which animals are our rarest? Here are the 10 rarest animals in the world:
The Biggest Environmental Disaster Of Our Time
Oil In Gulf Of Mexico |
This devastating occurrence meant that there was now a crack in one of the pipes deep in the ocean, causing oil to start spilling out into the surrounding water from the well. With efforts at being able to cap (seal off) the leaking well moving at a slow pace, an oil slick soon formed on the water's surface covering an area of 2,500 square miles.
Good News For Madagascan Conservation
A Rare Bamboo Lemur |
Deforestation for both logging and to clear land for commercial plantations has been happening around the world for years now, and on such a vast scale that the deforestation process actually now accounts for around 20% of the world's total carbon dioxide emissions.
Hopes to Double Wild Tiger Population
Year Of The Tiger 2010 |
Tigers are the largest of the world's cats and we have seen the loss of 3 tiger sub-species over the past 100 years, with the 5 remaining tiger sub-species being critically endangered in the wild today. So why is it that this majestic creature is more numerous in US zoos alone, than it is found patrolling it's natural habitat?