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Czas przestać walczyć z bobrem – a zacząć z nim współpracować
List otwarty w sprawie wykorzystania działalności bobrów jako narzędzia realizacji europejskiego prawa o odbudowie przyrody (Nature Restoration Law) Polska ma zobowiązania. Ma też narastające problemy – z suszą, utratą bioróżnorodności, zanikiem mokradeł i degradacją rzek. Tymczasem w świetnie opracowanym, a jednocześnie przygnębiającym raporcie Stowarzyszenia Nasz Bóbr czytamy, że jeden z naszych najważniejszych sojuszników w odbudowie…
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100+ dla Zwierząt i Natury
Zwierzęta nie mogą mówić za siebie. Nie mogą zaprotestować gdy ktoś je krzywdzi, wykorzystuje, zadaje im ból. Lasy nie mają głosu w parlamencie. Rzeki, lasy i torfowiska nie składają wniosków legislacyjnych. Dlatego potrzebują nas – ludzi, którzy będą ich rzeczniczkami i rzecznikami. „Nie możemy zrobić wszystkiego. Ale nie możemy też nic nie robić.”— Jonathan Safran…
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A Different Kind of Easter Tradition: 30+ Spring-Inspired Prompts for Self-Reflection
Easter is supposed to be about hope. Rebirth. Light returning after the dark. But sometimes, all that celebration feels bittersweet.Because alongside the flowers and eggs and pastel everything…I also see what we’re not seeing. We celebrate life…while quietly taking it from others. We gather around the table in love and gratitude…while leaving entire species out…
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Spring is here… and so is Planet Herbivore, finally! (–> Green Mango Lassi Recipe inside)
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Amazing Flamingos! Download FREE Coloring Pages For Kids Plus Fun Facts and Quizzes About Flamingos
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Flamingos! 10+ Surprising Facts About These Pink Wonders
Flamingos are more than just pink beauties, who spend their time looking cool, standing on one leg. These iconic creatures have some truly fascinating characteristics and play important roles in their ecosystems. Here are over 10 things you might not know about these beautiful birds: 1. Tough Birds in Extreme Environments Contrary to their delicate…
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Elephants and Their Secrets: 28 Fascinating Facts about Elephants
I felt honored and touched and full of wonder as I watched a family of 10+ majestic elephants walk gracefully across a dry riverbed in a Namibian desert. These creatures are rare and precious and absolutely amazing. These were definitely not THINGS or OBJECTS walking, but INDIVIDUALS, with their own special characteristics, and even names.…
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Feeling hopeless or depressed about what’s happening in the world? Then try this…
There are many reasons to feel despair, hopelessness, and powerlessness in today’s world. Wars, injustices, inequalities, diseases, sustainability issues, climate change, racism, speciecism, species extinction, and countless others. (I talk about some of them in my books.) So much so that most of us prefer to look the other way and ignore the problems we’re…
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Pigs Are Awesome! New Edition in Full Color Now Available
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‘The Silent Cry’ Flash Fiction Inspired by “The Great Silence” by Ted Chiang
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] As the holiday time is getting closer, I’m re-posting this piece, which I wrote a few years back. “The Great Silence” by Ted Chiang is a story about the Earthly creatures we fail to hear. It’s beautiful and heartbreaking at times, but overall ends on a positive note with…
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What Should Be the Goal of Activism for Animals?
It is vitally important that we set clear, specific and achievable goals, set a time horizon for their implementation, and then unite around these goals and focus our actions on putting them into practice. Change is happening, but not fast enough. We are not united, our attention is too scattered, we aren’t using all strategies,…
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Jaki Powinien Być Cel Aktywizmu dla Zwierząt?
Na ostatnim Marszu dla Wyzwolenia Zwierząt, jeden z przechodniów zaczepił mnie i zapytał o co właściwie nam chodzi. Nie był to żaden atak, tylko szczera ciekawość. Nie pamiętam dokładnie co odpowiedziałam, jakiś ogólnik, typu, że jest to że jest marsz wyzwolenia zwierząt i żądamy poprawy ich traktowania, ale on dalej nalegał, “-No, to wiem, ale…
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30+ Creative Ideas for Projects & Activities to Help Children and Families Grieve Loss of an Animal
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Dog’s Barf Alert (Excerpt from My Book “Barf, Bullies and Mulberries: My Middle School Misadventures”)
Life often imitates art, and vice versa. Ramses, the dog we adopted four years ago from a shelter, has been an inspiration for me many times, like in this scene from the Middle School Book: Barf, Bullies and Mulberries: My Middle School Misadventures. He’s grazing on grass, which he often does, especially in the spring.…