Earth Day: How You Can Help Corvids

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Earth Day is dedicated to celebrating the lands, waters and animals that we care for the most. It is also a day to honor those people who care so deeply for nature and for the future of our natural world.

That is why we wish to thank you for supporting this cause. You have helped to build a community of caring individuals that use their unique voices to challenge, support and inspire others into taking action for our natural world.

A group of caring individuals really can make a difference, and here’s how you can help bring nature into the spotlight today:

Send an Earth Day E-card
Use Reusable Bags

The world uses over 1.2 trillion plastic bags a year ie we are using one million bags per minute. On average we use each plastic bag for approximately 12 minutes before disposing of it. It then can last in the environment for centuries.

It’s estimated that over 10’s of thousands of birds choke or get tangled in plastic debris every year, and about 100,000 seals, sea lions, whales, dolphins, other marine mammals and sea turtles suffer the same fate, although some scientists believe this figure to be much higher.

Green Your Garden

Pesticides cause significant bird mortality each year. Repeated exposure to some pesticides can also lead to sub-lethal effects such as decreased breeding success. These effects are hard to detect but nevertheless can produce dramatic species declines over time.

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