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Description: John Muir was naturalist, explorer, and writer. In 1892, Muir and a number of his supporters founded the Sierra Club to, in Muir's words, "do something for wildness and make the mountains glad." Muir served as the Club's president until his death in 1914.
Relation to theme: Muir's contribution to actually respecting nature helped people learn to conserve our wildlife and plantlife tremendously

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Description: Founded by John Muir in 1892, The Sierra Club works towards several different environmental goals, including environmental law, international climate and energy, and even controlling the release of toxins in our environment. The multi-branched organization comprises of thousands of volunteers and offer great internships to people interested in environmental science.
Relation to theme: One of the primary goals of this organization is to respect nature and ensure that responsible usage of our natural resources occurs.

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Description: Founded in 1961, the WFF has set out to improve our interactions with the natural environment. One of their key initiatives has been to conserve the world’s most important forests in order to sustain nature’s diversity, benefit our climate, and support human well-being.
Relation to theme: The WWF's primary goal is to ensure that our world's wildlife and plantlife is safeguarded from human harm, and thus the organization definitely falls into the aforementioned theme.

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Description: Rachel Carson served as one of the forerunners in the contemporary environmental movement. The publication of her sensational book, Silent Spring (1962), warned of the danger to all ecosystems brought on by the use of chemical pesticides such as DDT.
Relation to theme: Carson's work in terms of cleaning up our environment helped contribute to increased biodiversity in habitats worldwide.

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Description: Founded in 1971, Greenpeace is another environmental organization that is working towards combatting real-world problems such as global warming and loss of biodiversity. Also, Greenpeace has a great forest conservation program that reduces the loss of the world's forests.
Relation to theme: Due to its advocacy for forest conservation, Greenpeace clearly desires the to protect our plant life, and thus also help nourish our world's wildlife.

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Founded in 1972, the Arbor Day Foundation is a nonprofit organization that outlines its main goals as ensuring clean air and water, slowing climate change, easing poverty and hunger, preventing species loss, and feeding  the human soul. One can also purchase trees to help improve our environment
Relation to theme: Protecting the world's trees definitely falls into the spectrum of plantlife protection, and will likely aid us in terms of many issues including our carbon footprint.

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On July 10, 1976, an explosion at a northern Italian chemical plant released a thick, white cloud of dioxin that quickly settled on the town of Seveso, north of Milan. Huge swaths of animals were killed by the dioxins, and humans began experiencing nausea and dizziness. The town was evacuated.
Relation to theme: Since large swaths of animals and wildlife were destroyed by the harmful dioxin cloud, we must ensure that we avoid the spread of such dangerous pollutants into the environment.

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The Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor partially melted down on March 28, 1979. This was the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant operating history, although its small radioactive releases had no detectable health effects on plant workers or the public. Its aftermath brought about sweeping changes involving emergency response to reactor meltdown.
Relation to theme: Nuclear reactors pose a major threat to local wildlife and plantlife, and thus it is key to prevent any possible disaster as soon as possible.

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When a dike failed at TVA's Kingston Fossil Plant in Dec. 22, 2008, 5.4 million cubic yards of coal ash cascaded into the Emory and Clinch rivers and smothered about 300 acres of land. The breach released a slow-moving wave of toxic sludge and polluted water into the river.
Relation to theme: This spill likely had a negative impact on a plethora of wildlife and plantlife in the local riverbeds and surrounding areas, and thus other possible spills must be averted to limit excessive losses of biodiversity in a given ecosystem.

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The BP oil spill is recognized as the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Within days of the April 20, 2010 explosion, underwater cameras revealed the BP pipe was leaking oil and gas on the ocean floor about 42 miles off the coast of Louisiana. By the time the well was capped on July 15, 2010, an estimated 3.19 million barrels of oil had leaked into the Gulf.
Relation to theme: This natural disaster negatively affected marine plant life in a tremendous manner, interfering with normal life processes and severely disturbing local ecosystems.

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Overall, all of the previous people, events, and organizations relate to the theme of Wildlife and Plantlife Protection because they involve either the preservation of our biodiversity or damage to its sustainability. For instance, people such as John Muir and Rachel Carson served as forerunners for the preservation of our natural ecosystems and the species within them, helping ensure the passage of environmental legislation for years to come. They also helped spur the formation of organizations such as the WWF and the Sierra Club, which help prevent habitat destruction and fragmentation to this day. Furthermore, a key aspect of maintaining our wildlife and plantlife is preserving our forests, which Greenpeace aids in tremendously.

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