Marine mammal center!

Marine Mammal Center

The marine mammal center recognizes the dependence between humans and animals. The goal of this institution is to rescue the animals with some treatments and medications, to take care of the marine mammal orphans, help scientists, educate or re-educate the animals, to finally put them back in their own habitat.
They don`t just rescue marine mammal, they do a lot of tests in their environment to understand the problems and find a solution.
United States protects all marine mammals by the Marine Mammal Protection Act (1972). There are also international laws and treaties that protect marine mammals *.

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*http://www.marinemammalcenter.org/learning/education/mammalinfo/mammals.asp

Interview with Greenpeace

Interview
Us: What’s Greenpeace?
Them: Greenpeace is a global campaign that is independent. We work to conserve the environment, protect it and promote peace by changing attitude,and behavior of human beings.
Us: Why does this group exist?
Them: Because the Earth deserves a voice to defend it.
Us:How long have you been active?
Them: Since 1971.
Us: Where are your headquarters?
Them: We are based in Amsterdam, in Netherlands.
Us: Why has your group been create?
Them: Because we were motivated by our vision of a world at peace without any kind of pollution problems.
Us: How was this group formed?
Them: It was an association of friends who wanted to stop a second nuclear weapons test at Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
Us: Who are the founders?
Them: The founders are: Dorothy and Irving Stowe, Marie and Jim Bohlen, Ben and Dorothy Metcalfe, and Bob Hunter.
Us: Where do you find the money?
Them: The majority of the money comes from donations and charity from the members and others.
Us: Why did you choose the color green to represent Greenpeace?
Them: Because it represents the environment.


Us: What’s your biggest accomplishment?
Them: We’ve made more than 200 hundred accomplishments that we are proud of. So if I tell you all of them, we haven’t finished yet. You can check our website, there are a couple of them.
Us: How can we help your cause?
Them: You can take care of the environment yourself by reducing your waste or give us money by donations.
Us: How do you convince so many people to join you in your cause?
Them: By media, television, radio and newspapers.
Us: Approximately, how many people have already joined your cause?
Them: Today there are 2.8 millions ‘’Greenpeacers’’ in 41 countries.
Us: What is your website to have more information?
Them: It’s http://www.greenpeace.org/international/.

Impacts that the industrialized world is having on Africa

Since more than one thousand years, humans are known to be the first cause of species disappearance. Our world loses approximately four species by year (including animals and plants). In Africa, the situation is worse than most of the others continents.
Because of the technologies’ evolution, the number of factory increased in a lot of country. Because of the Africa’s tropical climate, that continent owns an important biodiversity. Forests are protecting more than 20 millions of people who depend on these to survive. These forests are composed with approximately 400 species of animals, more than 1 000 species of birds and more than 10 000 plants. The African savanna is very important because it creates mostly of the naturals resources. It produces coffee trees, melons, papyrus, sesame and palm oil that are important for the African culture. Some of these plants are even used for medical research.
Africa’s first danger is the extreme exploitation of it natural resources. Trade and climate changes (caused by the new factories around it) are other causes of this danger. Africa is fighting this disaster with the biodiversity convention; it implies that Africa is the only owner of its resources and protects these. It also mentions the obligation of the United States of America to approve project concerning the management of their resources.
In conclusion, Africa is more important for us than mostly of humans known. Its resources are used for medical researches and it gave us a fabulous biodiversity. The industrialization has a bad effect in our ecosystem because it increases the temperature of the earth and it affects forest and biodiversity. So please, not just for us but for humans around the world, we should be cautious and well informed about impacts that our actions is having on our world, the Earth.

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First draft: Isabelle
First correction: Gabrielle
Second correction: Kevin
Final correction: Marc-Antoine

Source: http://www.ahjucaf.org/spip.php?article69

Impact that the industrialized world is having on the world's oceans

A lot of people think that global warming, caused by carbon dioxide, is the only problem that has an impact on the world’s oceans. The massive amounts of carbon dioxide are a big problem too because they are changing “the chemistry of the oceans, making them more acidic”*. Ocean acidification is a problem because it affects cold-water corals and marine life in a negative way. The acidification of pH in the oceans could easily destabilize and kill an ecosystem. If there are less corals, it will affect ocean life, fishing and tourism.
Oceana, a group who protects the world’s oceans, is trying to find solutions. They are campaigning to reduce carbon emissions and prevent the death of many species.

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* http://na.oceana.org/en/our-work/climate-energy/ocean-acidification/overview

Summary of Suzuki speaks

In his video, David Suzuki tried to explain what the environment is. He says that the environment is the mother of all humans and they are an integral part of nature because of the four sacred elements of biodiversity. He explains how an element cannot live without an other element (earth, fire, air and water). First, the earth is the result of fire and water and that consequence vegetation. Air, created by photosynthesis, is the fuel that keeps humans alive and it’s stuck in them. Also, 60 % of human’s body is water. They don’t have a gauge but the body knows when it needs water. The fourth element, fire, is the energy they need to be functional. It comes from the sun and the plants absorb it and transform it in energy that they can use. Human beings are all connected by some sort of link that brings them together, so they are elements. He said that even the smallest thing can affect the biggest thing. That’s interconnectedness and everything has consequences on everything else. Human beings’ responsibilities are to keeping the world healthy for future generations. Because of the media, like internet or television, the world is fragmented into violence. The world suffers psychologically and spiritually because of that. Humans are a super species because of their number, hyper consummation, powerful technologies and their unnatural habitat. They’re called a super species because they’re the only ones who were able to entering in biological and chemical biodiversity.

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Homework endangered species

A tiger is like a cat that is 140-280 cm long and between 60 to 95 cm high depending on if it's a male or a female. They're recognized in myths around the globe for their charisma and their beauty. They're also a powerful reverence symbol and they represent liberty and brutal strength to their human neighbors. Like other predators, they maintain the balance in nature between herbivorous prey and vegetation. They're also a smart species. They learn quickly. For example, at eleven months, a tiger already knows how to kill a prey.

They live in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, North Korea, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam. Because of the expansion of their habitat, tigers were forced to leave their natural habitat. They're particularly hunted for their fur. They're also victims of a lot of poaching. They're poisoned, shot, trapped and snared and they're sought to meet the demands of a continuing. That's why even if they are considered endangered, a lot of tigers have vanished from the world. Three out of nine tigers subspecies have been lost. The Bali, Caspian, and Javan tigers have all become extinct and many scientists believe the South China tiger is “functionally extinct”.

Places have been created to help tigers’ survival. They’re in a special area which is protects them from to poaching or prey. They’re in nature, without any men around them. The WWF took one species of each breed of tiger and put them in a natural habitat. If you want to help, I got the information on the website at the bottom of my text. You can send money or try to increase public wareness.


http://www.worldwildlife.org/species/

Isabelle Roberge

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New course .... Take care of the environment

So, Hi!
We're just student here so, if you hate grammatical errors just past this BlogSpot.
This blog is essentially for environmental projects and research. We’ll try to make this fun as possible even if it's a class project.... (Really hard lol!) Don't take me seriously. So have fun and try to stay awake.... haha

Isabelle