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What I took from the. Videos is that it's really easy to take action and to help the world that we are visiting in , and to make it a better place for all of us to live in.

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In Hong Kong, kids take action to stop the illegal ivory trade.
I find this one my favorite because I think Nellie Shute did the most action then all the one I have seen.  ( Nellie Shute is a 12 year old girl.)

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I have watched all the plastic in the ocean videos and I have noticed that they kind of have the same perspective but they have different beliefs and values and they tell the perspectives in a  other way.
I think that these videos will help me dive deep I to my inquiry.
I think that when I come onto one of the beaches that have plastic I would definitely take a plastic bag and pick up the trash.
I was shocked when I saw the plastic on the ocean because I always think that beaches are for holidays not for a dump station.
The  SDG's are life below water,life on land and responsible consumption and production.

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I watched the video about the man called Afroz Shah. And he is said that “ Garbage pile-up either on land or in oceans is a big issue, not only in India, but world over.” And I put that for Belifs. And for Value I wrote oceans and environment.
I thought that he was helping Responsible Consumption and Production  and Life Below Water.
I think that the job he does is very inspiring and great, because he helps others and tell others how they can deal with plastic.

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I choose : the man clearing up 9,000 tons of trash plastic

His values are:
his work the ocean and the beach

His beliefs are:
He needs to clean the beach to what it was when he was kid

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When I watch the videos they get help from people who they need. They work on the same kind of project, the ocean. They all care for the ocean.

The 20 year old kid action is get rid of plastic. He beliefs that his
team can cleanup haft of the pasific garbage patch in 10 years.

The other video about the India beach action is clean up the plastic on India beach and his belief is plastic is a big issue.

The SDG they are working on is life below water. I think they will make a difference for the ocean and the world. They has the same perspective, the perspective is plastic is bad and it polluting the ocean.

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It is very easy to say that you will take action but the hard part is doing it. On the 20 year old with a plan to get rid of plastic, the guy had a plan and he was talking about how we needed to get rid of plastic in the ocean. In these videos I watched all the people was getting help from someone who is like an expert. Everyone was doing what they’re passion was and what they believed. I noticed that most of the videos were about plastic and saving ocean animals from extinction. The people were taking action from what they believe. In like most of the videos most of the people had the same perspective. I noticed that all the videos focused on the same SDG (life below water).

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I watched the three videos that was in a presentation about sharks in the ocean. This video connects to the SDGs "Life below water" and "Climate Action" because they say oceans clean the air.These kids valued not only sharks but the ocean and the ecosystem. They talked about the different effects that can come because of finning too many sharks. They believe that killing a shark just for one bowl of soup is really just bad. They gave evidence that is very convincing, such as that 3 sharks get killed each second. Their behavior is making this video. These kids also talked about how torturous finning is. By the way, this is not the only anti-finning group. I know others such as the Shark Guardian. I highly recommend this for you.

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Ella

I am watching all the videos about the stoping plastic, and now I really know that it is a huge problem that people litter and throw plastic in to the ocean. By watching all those videos I learned that releasing balloons is a bad thing because if it goes up it has to go down, the chances where it lands were; in the woods in the ocean and the parks where people want to enjoy the spaces with no plastic.

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On the 20 year old collecting plastic video I noticed that his beliefs were
getting rid of plastic could help animal pollution and prevent it from dying or being extinct. Some of his value are the Ocean,Birds and Fishes. And  the SDG that links to this is life under water. He also wants to save the ocean and animals. So something that I noticed  is that he doesn’t care about if plastic stuff is being reused over and over repetitively,  but if they just you use for like one day or one hour  like that he cares. Not just him but everybody else

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Kei(reflection for a 20 year old and a man taking action for ocean plastic(two videos))

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Kei(reflection for a 20 year old and a man taking action for ocean plastic(two videos))

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In these videos, all of the people that I watched was getting help from other people, and I noticed that these people believed that it was difficult (almost impossible) to do the thing they wanted to do by themselves, and I think that thinking came with the belief that the problems are need to be solved by lots of people, not only one of few.

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I noticed that it is very easy to say that you are going to take action on a specific problem. Take the 20 year old who wants to get rid of the plastic in the ocean, he is passionate on what he's doing. He is valuing what is everybody's, the ocean. So if he can take action on what is the worlds...The others can do the same. When I say it is very easy to say when you are gonna take some action, you actually do it. If you say to somebody else that you are gonna take action and that you don't at the end, what's the whole point of even saying to that person that you are going to take that action?? Just to make that person think that you are taking action in the world, in my opinion, that would be so useless that you are trying to say to somebody else that you are taking action. So after reading this, don't just say to somebody that you are going to take action on something, actually do the action, I know that it will be very difficult to actually do the action, take some action. But remember, earth is not only yours, it's everybody's... Once I saw the video on that person trying to make a difference to this world it was so inspirational. I really learned that when you do something for that not only yours, e.g. The Earth. You are a powerful person and that you can easily inspire others from what you do that is not only yours. I feel also when I do something very less, I think that it didn't have any affect at all but to you just trying your hardest to do that very little something. Trust me on this, It will make an impact or effect, maybe not to you but to the world. When I take some action to help the world. I feel that I did absolutely nothing. It was truly amazing to see somebody who did a project that would help the world and not only himself. This 20 year old who did something right, also earns himself money from something that started from a project to something that is a very good business and that is helping the world. I think that this connects to the SDG's that are, clean water and sanitation. The other video that I watched, had a real affect on life below water. They were talking about how shark fin soup is bad. It is bad and useless when you ruin another creatures life just for YOURSELF, IT SO USELESS THAT THEY DO THAT AND NOTHING ELSE. PEOPLE ARE FIGHTING FOR THE SHARKS TO LIVE, THE TEACHERS ARE EVEN GIVING EDUCATION TO THE STUDENTS TO THESE PROBLEMS AND FISHERS JUST KEEP ON DOING THE SAME THING.. WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY FISHING. MAN, GO GET A LIFE

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I am really shocked to see that kids up to 8 years old can make a big difference to the world. Most kids made organization and some did it by themselves. Their ways of taking actions were really unique and inspiring.

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The first one I read was "I want every child to go to sleep well - fed"
I noticed after I read it was that she valued other children's health care. Hunger in general. I think she a
So she is very passionate about the topic since it's in the tittle and the text. Maybe she is influenced by the SDG's but two possibly. And it's unicef.

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What I took away  from this was that it is very easy to take action and that even if it was something small it could still have a very powerful effect on the world. It also helped me practice being able to figure out what people's beliefs, values, etc were. It was also very inspireing.

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Reflection for 7 years old kid starting a recycling company

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This article is very interesting because this boy was motiviated only by one event occurring in his life. He even earns money with the business he made.

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Ripple Kids an OC Non-profit Helping Children

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Ripples Kids an OC Non-profit inspiring and empowering youth to make a difference

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We promote use of the Sustainable Development Goals in learning so that children can contribute to a better future for all. From citizenship and justice to climate change and the environment, inspire children to make a difference!

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A 20 year old working to rid the ocean of plastic

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A 20 year old working to rid the ocean of plastic

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The 20-Year-Old With a Plan to Rid the Sea of Plastic

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The Man Clearing 9,000 Tons of Trash From Mumbai’s Beaches

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Attention, people of earth: we have a serious plastic problem. In just 30 years, global plastic production has jumped over 320 percent, which equates to about 300 million tons of plastic pieces coming into circulation every year. If imagining what 300 million tons of plastic looks like isn't enough to boggle your mind, here's another scary fact: over 85 percent of that plastic is never recycled. It makes its way from the factories to the stores to our homes, and then, way more often than not, it ends up in landfills instead of the recycling bin. To make matters worse, it doesn't stay in landfills. Studies have shown that 80 percent of marine trash is land-based and 90 percent of that trash is plastic. Once plastic ends up in the ocean, the world's marine animals are stuck with it. It can take thousands of years for plastic to break down, and when it does, it only breaks into small pieces known as microplastics.

These facts are some heavy realities to process but in spite of that, we can all do something to help. In fact, one little boy took his passion for recycling and turned it into a business that benefits the planet.

In 2012, after visiting the local recycling center in Orange County, California, Ryan decided that recycling would be his future. He was three-years-old at the time.

According to the Ryan's Recycling website, "The day after going to the recycling center, Ryan notified his mom and dad that he wanted to give empty plastic bags to all the neighbors and maybe they would save their recyclables for him." Soon he had a bonafide consumer-base made up of neighbors and community members.

He collects and sorts plastic, glass, and tin items then takes them over to the recycling center. Ryan is using the money he's made from customers to save for his future college education (you really have to get a head start these days).

Ryan has also become a Youth Ambassador for the Pacific Marine Mammal Center (PMMC) in Laguna Beach. Currently, over 700 marine species are threatened with extinction, so this rescue organization can use all the help they can get. All proceeds from Ryan's Recycling t-shirts go to help PMMC's volunteer efforts.

It's amazing that at such a young age, Ryan is committed to sticking to a regular recycling schedule. He spends a portion of each week sorting recyclables that have been donated by friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers of neighbors and he and his family make weekly trips to the center. So far, he has recycled over 200,000 bottles and cans and donated $1,624 to charity. This kid sure knows how to #CrushPlastic! To learn more about Ryan's Recycling, visit the official website.

While efforts are being made to remove debris from the oceans, improve recycling systems, and innovate barriers to prevent plastic from getting into waterways, we can all take action in our daily lives to stop plastic waste at the source.

If we all make an effort to identify where we use plastic and actively look for alternatives, we can drastically cut down on the amount of plastic pollution that finds its way into the oceans.

Let's #CrushPlastic! Click the graphic below for more information.

All image source: Ryan's Recycling

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This 7-Year-Old Started His Very Own Recycling Company to Help Keep Trash Out of the Oceans - One Green Planet

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Attention, people of earth: we have a serious plastic problem. In just 30 years, global plastic production has jumped over 320 percent, which equates to about 300 million tons of plastic pieces coming into circulation every year.

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Meet Lilly, age 9, who moved from London, England, to the Netherlands a few years ago. An animal lover, Lilly is on a mission to stop plastic pollution from harming animals and the environment.

Lilly picks up discarded plastic and other waste all over her community and encourages her friends and neighbors to do the same. She explains: "When I was learning to count in Dutch, I counted 91 pieces of plastic [that I picked up] and I thought should I be happy or mad or sad about this?"

To people who litter or don't understand the problem of plastic pollution, Lilly says: "Have they ever seen the way animals suffer when they eat this plastic?"

Lilly and her family recently founded Lilly's Plastic Pickup to raise awareness about the problem. She's already organized cleanups in her neighborhood, asked her local McDonalds to switch to paper tops and paper straws for their cups, and even stopped balloon releases.

"One time we saw a picture of a baby puffin wrapped around in balloons and it made me very cross," Lilly says. Lilly and her mother spoke to the local car company and convinced them to stop releasing balloons.

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How a 9 Year Old Who Picks Up Plastic is Helping to Save the Planet

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Meet Lilly, age 9, who moved from London, England, to the Netherlands a few years ago. An animal lover, Lilly is on a mission to stop plastic pollution from harming animals and the environment. Lilly picks up discarded plastic and other waste all over her community and encourages her friends and neighbors to do the same.

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Nurturing Seeds of Hope in the Amazon: Environmental Education in Action | Soka Gakkai International (SGI)

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A film highlighting the environmental education initiatives of the Soka Institute Amazon Environmental Research Center in Brazil.

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UNICEF | Children's Rights & Emergency Relief Organization

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Paulo Coelho

A boy was watching his grandmother write a letter. At one point he asked:

'Are you writing a story about what we've done? Is it a story about me?'

His grandmother stopped writing her letter and said to her grandson:

I am writing about you, actually, but more important than the words is the pencil I'm using. I hope you will be like this pencil when you grow up.'

Intrigued, the boy looked at the pencil. It didn't seem very special. 'But it's just like any other pencil I've ever seen!'

'That depends on how you look at things. It has five qualities which, if you manage to hang on to them, will make you a person who is always at peace with the world.'

'First quality: you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. We call that hand God, and He always guides us according to His will.'

'Second quality: now and then, I have to stop writing and use a sharpener. That makes the pencil suffer a little, but afterwards, he's much sharper. So you, too, must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make you a better person.

'Third quality: the pencil always allows us to use an eraser to rub out any mistakes. This means that correcting something we did is not necessarily a bad thing; it helps to keep us on the road to justice.'

'Fourth quality: what really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.'

'Finally, the pencil's fifth quality: it always leaves a mark. In just the same way, you should know that everything you do in life will leave a mark, so try to be conscious of that in your every action.'

Brazilian author Paul Coelho's best-selling books, including The Alchemist and The Pilgrimage, enchant readers from around the world. He has won numerous international awards for his works, which have been translated into more than 65 languages. Through the Paulo Coelho Institute, he uses his global appeal to combat poverty and help underprivileged members of Brazilian society.

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Paulo Coelho A boy was watching his grandmother write a letter. At one point he asked: 'Are you writing a story about what we've done? Is it a story about me?' His grandmother stopped writing her letter and said to her grandson: I am writing about you, actually, but more important than the words is the pencil I'm using.

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Hong Kong schoolchildren are transforming attitudes about elephant ivory through small actions that are having a big impact.
Hong Kong is at the heart of the ivory black market. Its bustling ports are a major entry point for smuggled ivory shipped from Africa to Asia. In recent years officials have seized huge amounts of ivory: 3.4 tons in 2011, 5.6 tons in 2012, and about 7 tons in the first ten months of 2013.

Now, kids in Hong Kong are using school projects, letter-writing campaigns, petitions, and protests to educate their peers and parents about the true origins of decorative ivory. As a result, they're helping change habits and policies.

When Nellie Shute, a 12-year-old at the Hong Kong International School, read articles about the ivory confiscations, she was horrified by how many elephants must have been killed. She did a school project on it, and when she presented her work, her classmates too were shocked. They promised to tell their parents, many of whom owned things made with ivory.

"I knew I'd made a difference, even though it was only a small number of kids," Shute said. "And I knew I had to do more to spread the 'no to ivory' message."

So Shute contacted Elephant Voices, a Kenya-based NGO cofounded by Joyce Poole. When Elephant Voices shared her letter on their Facebook page, Shute was overwhelmed by the more than 600 people who commented and themselves shared it.

Determined to do more, she created and sold elephant gift cards, raising $250, which she donated for the care of an elephant orphan at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya.
Education: The Wrong Kind
The Hong Kong government often displays confiscated ivory at schools and libraries for "educational" purposes. Yet Shute believes the displays are counterproductive.

"My school was given the tusks to educate students," she said. "But it wasn't doing that at all. Actually, it was reinforcing the idea that it's acceptable to display ivory as artwork. Kids were walking past and saying, 'Wow, that's so cool.' It wasn't cool at all. An elephant was killed and had its face ripped off so that those tusks could be there."

Shute wrote to her principal explaining how she felt. She was nervous but heartened by his response. He said the school hadn't thought about it that way and that she was right.

He agreed to send the ivory back to the government, and when it was returned last December, the shipment included a petition organized by Shute with more than 500 signatures from students and teachers explaining why the school didn't want the ivory and why the government should go a step further and destroy its entire ivory stockpile.
Christina Seigrist and Lucy Skrine
Christina Seigrist, a nine-year-old at the Chinese International School in Hong Kong, learned what was happening to elephants from her parents and their friends, who work in conservation.

She was encouraged to act by her school's theme, "Let's make the world a better place," and by her involvement in the Jane Goodall Institute's Roots and Shoots program.

"I was really worried that if we don't do anything, I will not be able to see elephants in real life when I grow up," Seigrist said.

Seigrist's friend, Lucy Lan Skrine, an 11-year-old at the Independent Schools Foundation Academy, had watched a National Geographic documentary on rhino poaching and later discovered that elephants are poached too.

"This really angered me, having met an elephant up close in Thailand," Skrine said. "Knowing these friendly, harmless animals could be extinct made me want to help."

In September 2013 the two girls joined with Nellie Shute to form the Elephant Angels.

On January 22, the Elephant Angels delivered a petition to the Hong Kong government advocating destruction of its ivory stockpile. They had garnered more than 18,000 signatures, nearly double their goal of 10,000.

On January 23, the Hong Kong government announced its intention to destroy 95 percent (28 tons) of its almost 30-ton ivory stockpile. Slated for May 15, this will be the world's largest ivory destruction so far.

Overjoyed, the children sent handmade cards to officials with the words, "Thank you 11,000 times" (the number of dead elephants the stockpile represents).

"It's a way of putting their memory to rest," Shute said.

The angels didn't stop there.

"If the government is serious about saving elephants, they shouldn't allow shops to sell ivory at all, because that just encourages demand," Shute said.

Domestic legal ivory sales often provide a cover for illegal ivory. Undercover video footage released on February 12 showed staff at two Chinese Arts & Crafts (H.K.) Ltd. stores telling customers how to illegally smuggle ivory across borders. (A company spokesperson said its ivory crafts were sold legally under relevant laws and noted that Hong Kong's Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department monitors local sales.)

On February 15 the angels staged a protest at one of the stores. Standing in front of a window display of a massive set of tusks, they handed out leaflets and talked to shoppers about the true source of the ivory.

"When we were protesting, people were wondering what was happening, and they stopped and read our posters," Seigrist said. "I speak Chinese, and I was able to talk to kids visiting from mainland China that elephants are killed for their ivory. It was shocking to find out that they thought the tusks just fall off the elephants. They were horrified and immediately told their parents right there not to buy the ivory."

She continued: "There was one old Chinese man on his bicycle. He was looking at the pictures of the killed elephants, then suddenly he fell off his bike and started crying and asking how could anyone do this to an animal. I was so sad to see him crying."

After the protest, the group received many interview requests.

"We were happy with these results because the news, radio, and TV stations have the power to teach more people about the cause," Skrine said.
More Students Join the Fight
On March 15, students at Clearwater Bay School organized their own protest.

Researching the illegal ivory trade for a school project, they'd interviewed Alex Hofford, cofounder of Hong Kong for Elephants and a consultant for WildAid. They'd also visited a Chinese Arts & Crafts store and were concerned about the ivory.

"I don't want to see any type of animal become extinct just because people want money," said Clearwater's Giacomo Faye. "I want the next generation of humans to see them up close and not on their iPad or TV."

Shortly after the protest, the company announced it had "suspended the business of selling ivory products at all [its] branches."

"It goes to show that the power of schoolkids protesting on their doorstep every month was not lost on Chinese Arts & Crafts," Hofford said.

The children were pleased with the result.

"It's one giant leap to stopping the ivory trade," Faye said.

"If it's not in the shops, people can't buy it," Shute added. "If they can't buy it, hopefully they will no longer want it."

The ivory suspension is a potent statement, but it will have little impact on the company's bottom line. Chinese Arts & Crafts represents a small part (perhaps 3 to 5 percent) of the sales of its parent company, China Resources Enterprise, whose core business is food and drinks. Furthermore, because the company sells ivory products on consignment, it can simply return them to the consignee.

Hong Kong's Elephant Angels are now set on winning a total ban on ivory sales. They've started another petition, which has already garnered thousands of signatures and are planning a protest, on May 14.

After they targeted the second largest ivory retailer in Hong Kong, Wing On Department Store, it announced today that, effective July 7, 2014, it would stop selling ivory. Now they have the third largest, Yue Hwa Chinese Products Emporium, in their sights.

Children around the world can lend their support to this cause, said Christina Seigrist. "I would ask them to share this with many of their friends, and also do a presentation at their school."

"Remember, this is our planet, and these are our animals," Skrine added. "It's up to this generation to save them before they die out."

"Don't be afraid to stand up for what you believe in," Shute advised. "If you do nothing, nothing will change. Our young voices can be very powerful, and people will listen. You just have to speak up!"
If you have stories of children taking action for elephants or other wildlife, please comment here or share on the author's Facebook site.

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In Hong Kong, Kids Take Action to Stop the Illegal Ivory Trade

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Every second, 3 sharks die at human hands. Many are "finned" so that their fins can be used for shark fin soup. Sharks are becoming extinct and it is affecting all ocean life.

Executive Producer/Director Gary Rose and fledgling group KISS (Kids Involved in Saving Sharks) have teamed up to create a PSA campaign aimed at halting the slaughter of sharks and preserving the ocean's ecosystem.

MJ Fam, please help those kids and spread their message to help the endangered species of sharks that are essential to our eco system!

Why?

Sharks have been around for nearly 400 million years: that makes them older than dinosaurs! There are about 375 different types of shark in the world.

The sea monster myth

Sharks rarely attack people. In fact, the chance of being attacked by a shark is less than the chance of being struck by lightning. The real dangers for people in the ocean are drowning, exposure and being struck by a boat. So no, sharks are not the sea monsters we hear about in stories.

Threat to survival

While sharks are not a threat to people, people are a very real threat to sharks. Each year, over 100 million sharks are killed, most of them for their fins. In fact, there are now 20 types of sharks that are in danger of disappearing because of overfishing.

One of the reasons the shark population is decreasing rapidly is that it takes a long time for sharks to become adults. When a young shark is caught they do not have the chance to grow up and produce baby sharks (pups).

When it comes to reproducing, sharks are more similar to mammals such as whales, dolphins and humans than to other fish. While most fish reach maturity in only a few years and produce thousands or millions of eggs per year, sharks take many years to reach maturity, with some species not reproducing until they are over 15 years old. So when sharks are overfished it may take them many years to recover and in some cases they may never recover.

Sharks are crucial parts to the ocean ecosystem. They are at the top of the ocean food chain. They control populations in a beneficial way by eliminating diseased and genetically defective animals. Sharks are an important part of the Earth's biodiversity.

YOU can help endangered sharks!

1. Educate yourself and others about their importance to our world.

2. Send letters to politicians and other influential people. Let others know how you feel about endangered sharks and how crucial they are to the environment.

3. Sign a petition or start a petition against shark finning and send it to representatives of China.

4. Avoid purchasing products made from sharks.

5. Organise a fundraising activity at your school or in your community and donate to a shark conservation program or organisation.

Together we can make a difference! Tell us how you've helped the sharks and inspire other to do the same.

(credits: Save the sharks! on www.ecokids.ca/blog/)

For more information on sharks, please check out and support these websites:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/theglobalsharkinitiative
http://www.stopsharkfinning.net/ http://www.facebook.com/#!/StopSharkFinning http://www.sharkwater.com

http://www.sharksavers.org

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I was made aware of the plight of orangutans a couple of years go whilst on a wildlife education conference at Melbourne Zoo. They were inspiring their visitors to act for orangutans with their Palm it Off campaign and during that visit I connected with those beautiful animals and learnt a lot about how I could help.

I'm not perfect and some times I need new inspiration to get me actively helping a species in need. There's so many animals to help and so little time.

In light of a new campaign to help orangutans, the Bloggers to Borneo campaign in collaboration with Digital Parents and The Orangutan Project has inspired me to act again and help create change for these animals that are so like us! This time Miss Possum helped me too.

Just look at those eyes. I showed Miss Possum a picture of an Orangutan and she connected with the eyes straight away. Those eyes are almost human. They're more expressive than most animal's eyes and although I feel like all animals have a soul, this one feels different. They understand us more, they feel more.
'During the past decade the orangutan population has decreased by approximately 50 percent in the wild. This is primarily due to human activities including rainforest destruction for palm oil plantations. At present, 80 percent of orangutan habitat has been altered or lost.'( (The Orangutan Project, 2013)
If you haven't heard much about orangutans and their major threat than palm oil plantations are the equivalent of a huge bulldozer destroying thousands of animals lives and homes (many endangered). Palm oil is in a lot of products and we need to be aware of the companies that aren't making the change to more sustainable practices. They need to know that we aren't happy about what they're using in their products and how that impacts the environment.

Miss Possum and I decided that we would send a postcard to McDonald's who apparently are still using palm oil in their frying process. We would love for you to send one to McDonald's too. I've made postcards to download that can be used for any company you know is doing the wrong thing. Public pressure can help to stop the destruction of Orangutan habitat.

The McDonald's address:

Managing Director
Catriona Noble
McDonald's Head Office
21-29 Central Ave
THORNLEIGH NSW 2120

I can't save the world, I can't save all animals (I wish I could) and I don't want my children to feel they need to save the world either but I do want them to recognize that small changes in their lifestyle can help wildlife and make a big difference. I do want them to understand that feeling sad about an animals destruction achieves nothing but acting for the animals makes a difference and you feel great doing it.

Please help the Orangutans and join with me to tell businesses that it's not okay!

Download the postcard set by clicking on the picture below.

Print the postcard pack and then decide on the colouring-in option or the open-ended postcard option. Your child can draw a picture in the box. Stick the postcards onto some recycled cardboard to make it more sturdy.

Other ways you can help Orangutans

Learn more about palm oil and what products contain it. This Facebook page is great for keeping you updated on who is still using this product despite it palm oil plantations causing habitat destruction.

Donate to the Bloggers to Borneo Fundraising Drive. All money raised will directly help the endangered orangutan by providing support for a wide range of projects, including habitat protection; rehabilitation projects and orphan care centers.

Adopt an Orangutan from The Orangutan Project. Just take a look at those cute little faces. You'll be smitten!

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Act for orangtuans: action postcards for kids - Mother Natured

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I was made aware of the plight of orangutans a couple of years go whilst on a wildlife education conference at Melbourne Zoo. They were inspiring their visitors to act for orangutans with their Palm it Off campaign and during that visit I connected with those beautiful animals and learnt a lot about how I could help.