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Healing Our Planet
However, Tiffi relaxing in front of a television doesn’t last for long. Her curiosity on how to make the world a better place prompts her to go back to her googling. ‘Over the past few months a stark realization has begun to sink in: our bodies are getting sick because our planet has been sick for a long time. The COVID-19…
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How Nature Can Help Heal Our Planet
Tiffi finds another article about healing the planet. Just then her phone rings and it’s Elsa calling. “Hi Elsa, what’s up?” asks Tiffi. “I’ve been online today looking for articles to go with part 2 of your story. I think I found some interesting articles that will help our community members learn more about the ecosystem…
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NATIONAL ENDANGERED SPECIES DAY
‘Each year on the third Friday in May, National Endangered Species Day offers an opportunity for everyone to learn about the importance of protecting endangered species. The observance also encourages learning about wildlife habitats and the actions necessary to protect them. Every year you can participate along with…
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What is an ecosystem?
One day as Tiffi is walking through the community she overhears some players talking about “ecosystem” and “National Earth Day”. In all of her 8 eight years she never heard of ecosystem before. When she gets home she will have to do some googling. Suddenly her phone starts beeping, and she sees a couple of text messages…
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Tiffi does some googling
As soon as Tiffi walks inside her house she turns on her computer and then goes into the kitchen to get herself a drink. She sits down at her computer and types in “ecosystems”. She is not sure what she is looking for, so she tries the first listing for ecosystems examples. “That’s not going to work,” Tiffi thinks to…
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How Do Natural Ecosystems Work?
‘Natural ecosystems are “balanced” systems. This means the interactions between the different organisms that make up the ecosystem contribute to a certain stability. For example, in grassland ecosystems, herbivores consume grass, but also feed the soil with their droppings, which allows the grass to grow back and allows…
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Links Between Ecosystems and Human Activities
‘We’ve managed to control fire, practice agriculture, and build transportation vehicles. We’ve built factories, dams, solar panels and we’re constantly finding new ways of exploring space. Still, the human race’s thirst to use, modify and transform natural ecosystems seems endless. For instance, when we transform a plain…
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Why Is Preserving Ecosystems Important?
‘Like all other living beings, humans are dependant on natural ecosystem services to survive. We need it to get the food we eat, the water we drink and to transform raw materials into our everyday products. So, in order to keep our living conditions, it’s truly important that we preserve natural ecosystems. For example,…
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WILDLIFE FUNDAMENTALS
‘As humans, we’ve been watching, admiring, studying, cataloging, hunting, and capturing wildlife since time immemorial, and our relationship to all of the species we share this planet with is complicated, to say the least. Some wild animals are seen very differently from the animals we farm for food, and the animals we…
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Changes occurring in wildlife
‘CLIMATE CHANGE & WILDLIFE - We are living in perilous times. In some ways, exotic companion animals are shielded from an even worse fate, which is also wrought by humans: climate change. We know that climate change has an effect on wild animals and endangered species – many of us are still imprinted with images of polar…
