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Always smiling @allknowing (153544) • India 15 Jul 24

We never have shortage of water as we have a well that provides us with enough and more. But this morning our taps went dry as we forgot to fill the tank. To add to that misery there was no current I had to brush my teeth and...

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Jersey Zoo

Fleur @Fleura (34943) • United Kingdom 6 May 23

Another place we visited on our trip to Jersey was the Jersey zoo, run by the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust. This was started in 1959 by Gerald Durrell, one of my favourite authors, a pioneering conservationist and one of my...

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Stop Food Waste Day is celebrated today! It should be implemented every day!

Rashna Gandhi @Rashnag (30597) • Surat, India 27 Apr 23

Hi guys, Hope you all are doing good. I am doing well too. I came across this information so thought to share it here. There is Stop Food Waste Day celebrated every year since 2017....

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Gorgeous day

Krissttina Isobe @oahuwriter (26773) • United States 13 May 22

I woke early today. Must go shopping and maybe a treat too. The Sun shines brightly today calling you to enjoy the day! After about a week or so if much needed rain, Sun has come to help the solar system users! Most drought...

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Happy Earth Day Everyone!! Let's protect our Planet!!

Rashna Gandhi @Rashnag (30597) • Surat, India 22 Apr 22

Hi guys, Hope you all are doing good. I am doing good too. Today, 22nd April is celebrated everywhere, each year as " Happy Earth Day". The origin of celebrating this day started on 22nd...

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World Foresty Day is Today!! Let's plant!!!

Rashna Gandhi @Rashnag (30597) • Surat, India 21 Mar 22

Hi guys, Hope you all are doing good. I am doing good too. I came to know that today, 21st March is celebrated every year as "World Foresty Day" by different countries across the globe. This day...

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Save trees plant trees

Bhushan Ramesh Ingle @inglebhushan555 (200) • Amravati, India 1 Jul 20

Stop deforestation and plant trees. One ?? can make a difference!!! Trees gives us shade, oxygen, even roof, healing mother Earth and much more...... So, Are you going to plant atleast one tree in a year??? Write your opinions...

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A bird with a horn

ARM @responsiveme (22923) • India 1 Dec 18

That is the hornbill. It gets its name from the projection on its beak.It is a large bird and rather bigger than the rest of the avian species found in the forest area. Formerly they were hunted for the beak which was used in...

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Do you believe in going green? What efforts do you take in your daily activities for the same?

DahliaWallace @DahliaWallace (61) • India 30 Aug 18

Going green is very important change yet it is the most difficult change. Conservation of our resources is the need of the hour. I wash my clothes with soap nuts and always use low level of water in the washing machine. As and...

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My favourite news story

Fleur @Fleura (34943) • United Kingdom 25 Jan 18

Most of the time, when President Donald Trump is mentioned in the same sentence as something like ‘wildlife’ or ‘conservation’ it means bad news for some, or many, species or wild places. So I was cheered yesterday to read that Mr...

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Conservation, old style.

marguicha @marguicha (230334) • Chile 10 Aug 17

I just read a post written by @Genipher about conservation alternatives. And that reminded me on how the world had changed since I was young. When I was young, we used cloth napkins to clean our lips (when eating)...

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Nature post of the day - Cowslips

Fleur @Fleura (34943) • United Kingdom 11 May 16

When I posted recently about the wonderful spring flowers I was admiring in the nearby woods, @MALUSE commented that I had omitted to mention the cowslips. Funnily enough I had planned to write about cowslips in a different post,...

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Have you heard of Johnny Appleseed?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381837) • Rockingham, Australia 26 Apr 16

I've just finished reading another book by Gene Stratton Porter (1863-1924). This one is called 'Laddie'. It is set in Indiana and what I found especially interesting is that there are several mentions of Johnny Appleseed. My boys...

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What are you doing for the Nature?

manohar lal @manohar282 (88) 19 Apr 16

Nature gives us all the resources we need, still we are exploiting and degrading it thinking it would continue to take care of us forever. But we have forgotten that we could also get extinct from this planet someday, same as...

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How do you pinch pennies?

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169439) • United States 15 Apr 16

We like the pennies we earn as well as those we pinch. I scrape the peanut butter from the jar to make one more sandwich, etc. I do not like to waste.That is just a small thing, though. Early in the morning, as soon as my husband...

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Saiga - One of the World's Strangest Animals!

Jennifer Valentine @atlantickitfox (6) 13 Apr 16

So here is my first example of a strange-looking, endangered animal. I think all animals have a place in the world but others disagree. I'm interested in your respectful opinion. What do you think of the endangered saiga?

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How Do Marbles Help the Bees?

Kyla Matton Osborne @Ruby3881 (1963) • Canada 8 Apr 16

Am I the only one who didn't know about this? Apparently people are creating bee watering stations, the most simple of which is a bowl of water filled with marbles. It turns out that bees often try to get water in places like...

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Toad patrol!

Fleur @Fleura (34943) • United Kingdom 25 Mar 16

A couple of weeks ago I signed up for a local ‘Toads on the roads’ scheme after seeing a poster asking for helpers. There is a nationwide scheme broadly organised by the charity Froglife, but basically everything comes down to one...

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Do you restrict your comments to those directly to the discussion?

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 15 Mar 16

In case the title is not very clearly understood, I am referring to where you actually comment. The usual practice is to comment directly on the discussion, but I sometimes comment on other comments instead. I have read some...

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Recycle Your Plastic Bottles, Make Bottle Bricks!

JENNY ARCHER @bookbar (1609) • Sudbury, England 31 Dec 15

Ever wondered what other uses, all those plastic bottles, could be put to,other than filling up your recycling bin? Bottle Bricks could be your answer and a way of utilising all your other bits of inorganic waste. This method of...

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