posters-for-good:

We only use 10% of our brain capacity. Thank goodness.
(via Climate Action)

Solo usamos el 10% de nuestra capacidad cerebral. Gracias a Dios.

fightingfortheworld:

posters-for-good:

Save Paper

You can make a difference

When the water goes, we dry. Save the water. Irrigate our history.

Cuando el agua se va, nos secamos. Salava el agua. Irriga nuestra historia.

“Hay millones de especies animales, pero el humano es el unico animal capaz de destruirlos a todos.” - Anthiny Douglas Williams

(via fightingfortheworld)

(via animalsandtrees)

posters-for-good:

It is the greatest of all mistakes
to do nothing because
you can only do little.

Do what you can!

Es el mas grande de los errores, el hacer nada por que solo puedes hacer poco.

Haz lo que puedas!

It’s not a game anymore

Ya no es un juego.

80% de los bosques que originalmente cubrian la tierra han sido talados, fragmentados o degradados.

90% de los peces grandes han desaparecido de los oceanos del mundo en el medio siglo pasado.

(via fightingfortheworld)

With over 200 rhinos already dead this year at the hands of poachers in South Africa and no signs of the slaughter slowing, some innovative rhinoceros lovers are stepping up their game.

Wildlife workers at Sabi Sand, a private game reserve at the southernmost tip of Kruger National Park, have injected a special cocktail into 100 rhino horns, turning them pink in an effort to deter illegal horn hunters.

In addition to discoloring the horn, the pink dye can also be detected by airport scanners, even when the horn is ground into a powder to make the high-priced traditional “medicines” that help fuel the killing of rhinos. The hope is to make transport of the illegal product that much riskier.

And that’s not all. There’s poison in the pink.

The indelible pink dye is mixed with parasiticides, usually used to control ticks. Though it’s not meant to kill unscrupulous poachers and consumers who ingest the powder, it does have some pretty nasty side effects, including nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Ironically, these are some of the symptoms which rhino horn is incorrectly believed to alleviate. (Rhino horns contain nothing more than the same keratin found in fingernails.)

This comes at a time when the demand for traditional “medicines” is growing, says Tom Milliken, Rhino Program coordinator with Traffic, a leading wildlife trade-monitoring network. He says, “There is a whole new market that advertises rhino horn as a successful cancer treatment. It’s being marketed in hospitals to the families of the critically ill. In addition, it has also become a trendy hangover remedy.”

Dr. Susie Ellis, Executive Director of the International Rhino Foundation, has concerns about the ethical implications of intentionally poisoning something that may well be ingested, but hopes the project will draw attention to the dire situation.

“If this strategy discourages even one person from buying horn, I think it’s marvelous,” she says.

Milliken also understands the urgency to save every rhino possible, but isn’t sold on this technique. “I’m not sure I fully buy the notion that this dye cocktail has been adequately tested and certified to be non-harmful to rhinos,” he says. “The process of anesthetizing living rhinos to inject the cocktail is time consuming and entails risks; we know of rhinos in the private sector that have died in the process, including one at an event to specifically showcase this particular dye technique.”nser

Earth Hour 2013 adds for WWF

mothernaturenetwork:

PHOTOS: 7 lakes and rivers that are drying up

There are only 25,000 polar bears in the Arctic region, and ice – home to the polar bears – is rapidly melting away. Only ⅓of the population may survive by 2050. Climate change, poaching and pollution in the Arctic only adds to endangering the future of the polar bear. Last year ice level has reached its minimum and the gap between last minimum in 2007 is the size of the whole of Turkey!

To draw media attention to the problem and increase traffic flow to the fundraising page, BBDO Moscow created an easy interactive game website http://allforbear.com, fully optimized for sharing on social media.

The website shows polar bears and their virtual habitat – ice – surrounded by the sea. Each click on the blue sea area turns water into ice. Bears get more ice to live on and the newly created floe gets the name of the visitor. The website generates a sharing link for social media accounts: Facebook, Twitter, VK.com. The basis of the game is the well-known Pay-With-A-Tweet concept. The viral growth formula is simple: the more people visit the site and share it with their friend lists, the more people donate there by “buying” a bear to live on ice. Donations support coastal monitoring, anti-poaching activities, environmental projects in the Arctic region and increase the survival chances of polar bears.

Every 15 seconds, Brazilian forests lose an area the size of a football field.

Cada 15 segundos, los bosques brazileños pierden un area del tamaño de un campo de futbol.

As the sun sets over the waterhole its rays turn the water red, the same colour as my blood. I have loved wallowing in the mud of this waterhole and hiding in my little corner of the forest. But, this will probably be my last sunset. Millenia from now you might remember the species called the Javan Rhino, but we will be long gone. Maybe when you see my horn on display in the museum you will realize how savage and cruel people are.

Rrino, April 30, 2010
The Javan Rhino’s last words

Mientras el sol se pone sobre el abrevadero, sus rayos tornan el agua roja, el mismo color que mi sangre. He amado el revolcarme en el lodo de este abrevadero y el esconderme en mi pequeña esquina del bosque. Pero este será probablemente mi último atardecer. Millenios en el futuro puede que ustedes recuerden la especie llamada Rinoceronte, pero pero nosotros habremos tendremos mucho de haber desaparecido. Quizá cuando vean mi cuerno en exposición en algun museo se darán cuanta de cuan salvaje y druel es la gente.

Rinoceronte, 30 de Abril, 2010
Últimas palabras del rinoceronte de Java

Every 15 seconds, Brazilian forests lose an area the size of a city block.

Cada 15 segundos, los bosques de Brazil pierden un area del tamaño de una cuadra de ciudad.