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An eco-friendly gift for a great cause: A Surfrider 2008 Gift Membership
It’s rare that you can make yourself feel so benevolent for a reasonable price, and also get something really cool and eco-friendly in return, but this is one of those opportunities. The Surfrider Foundation, who you probably know is a worldwide organization started in 1984 by surfers that now has over 50,000 members who fight to protect the world’s oceans, waves, and beaches, is offering special gift memberships in 2008 as a way to raise badly needed funds for their important cause.
Gift membership price: $44
What you get:
A Limited Edition Surfrider Foundation organic t-shirt
or
A tote bag with an exclusive art design.
And you also get:
A one-year membership to the Surfrider Foundation, six issues of the award-winning Making Waves
A membership sticker
Chapter and volunteer contact information and discounts at a growing number of retailers and restaurants nationwide
Date: November 13th, 2008 |
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Ten Tips for Safe Turtle Watching on World Turtle Day
May 23rd is World Turtle Day and is celebrated throughout the globe by people who appreciate turtles and their hard-shelled cousins.
Turtles, including terrapins and tortoises, are reptiles belonging to the Order Testudines and first appeared on earth about 200 million years ago. There are about 12 types of turtle, all of which are threatened in some way but no more so than the sea turtle. Sea turtles face numerous threats, mainly from fishing activities, poaching and destruction of their habitats, and rate among the most endangered species on the planet.
It’s quite extraordinary that these wonderful animals have managed to survive for millions of years, despite the constant threat from sea-faring predators, yet, as with an array of marine life, it is mankind’s blind destruction and selfishness that will result in their demise unless things change for the better, and soon.
Read on for Ten Tips for Safe Turtle Watching
Date: May 21st, 2008 |
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Octopuses Given Toys as Part of Sea Life Study
If you’re planning on visiting Europe any time soon, why not get involved in a new mutli-centre study that is to take place in 23 Sea Life Centres across Britain and Europe.
Sea Life is carrying out studies on octopuses to determine whether they favour a particular tentacle for picking things up. Scientists want to test their theory that the intelligent sea molluscs have a preferred arm out of the eight they have to choose from, much like humans favour their left or right hand.
The octopuses will be given food and toys to play with. The tentacle they use to feed and investigate with will be recorded. This is where visitors can get involved; all you need to do is sign a form on entry if you’re willing to participate.
Alongside each tank will be the diagram of an octopus. The arms on the right will be labelled from front to back, R1, R2, R3, R4 and on the left, L1, L2, L3, L4.
When the octopuses are given their toys, such as a ball, a jam jar or Lego bricks, visitors are encouraged to chart which arm was closest to the object and which arm picked the object up. If the octopus uses a number of arms, they too are to be written down but this time in the order that they touched the object.
Date: July 9th, 2008 |
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