Environmental Change

I have noticed a lot that animals don't have homes because humans have taken over their environments. We need to save the animals. We need to save the ocean, the forests, we are messing up the food chain. These are some ways to try to save animals. 

1. Do not pollute the ocean, recycle your plastic and don't throw away plastic bags. Bring your own cloth bag with you to the store. Plastic bags look like food to predators so if a turtle says, um I'd like to have a snack there is a jelly fish the turtle might choke if that jelly fish is actually a plastic bag.

Sea bird with plastic in its belly
photo by Chris Jordan

2. Clean up garbage, there is so much garbage everywhere now. Its just gross, you see it at the street in the park, even on trails in the woods. Garbage can choke animals and hurt their habitats. So please  don't litter.

3. Stop using pesticide, it hurts honey bees. I know you might think, I hate bees. But they are very good insects, bees pollinate flowers without bees they wouldn't bloom. The flowers would droop shrivel up and die without bees.

4. Stay out of bat caves because white nose bat syndrome started with a person walking into a bat cave with gross fungus on their shoes. The disease has killed thousands of bats in America.

White nose bat syndrome

5. Don't chop down trees. You are ruining animals habitats when you are doing this. You are also hurting humans habitat because trees create oxygen which we need to breathe. 

In conclusion, I'd like to say that I hope you will act upon these things. Especially this last one."A single mature tree can absorb carbon dioxide at a rate of 48 lbs./year and release enough oxygen back into the atmosphere to support 2 human beings." - McAliney, Mike

The author Elise Mc Millen