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mothernaturenetwork:

Zookeepers have been using perfumes and other strong scents for years to help spice up the love lives of Sumatran tigers and other endangered big cats. The smells increase the amount of time cats explore their territory and encourage social interaction — namely, mating. What’s the cats’ favorite perfume? Calvin Klein’s Obsession has proved to be an exciting scent for a variety of big cats.
10 odd ways we protect endangered species

How to starve to death on a full stomach. The 272 pieces of rubbish pictured above were fed to this fledgling albatross along with fish caught by its mother. The plastic accumulated in its stomach until it was literally ‘too full to eat’. Careless and unregulated dumping is just one of the ways we’re killing our oceans.

anoceanactivist:

Catch of the Day: Butts-n-Bits - Venice Beach, CA

To bring some attention to ocean pollution and just how disgusting it really is, Surfrider Foundation teamed up with Satchi & Satchi LA to create “Catch of the Day.” Simply and brilliantly, they collected actual trash from beaches around the U.S., packaged it like food, and left it on display at farmer’s markets

ocarinaofthyme:

phuckunderwear:

hippiescientist:

ravenshire:

Faroe Islands Whale Slaughter - Does anybody care? by hipydeus on Flickr.

Tradition can justify everything?

 This isn’t different to killing another human, as well as any other animal.

 this is sickening, especially since they’re not only killing the whale-theyre killing it’s baby tooo D:

“On July 19, 2010, a pod of 236 pilot whales was ruthlessly slaughtered in the town of Klaksvik in the Danish Faroe Islands

Sea Shepherd Undercover Operative Peter Hammarstedt, also First Mate of Sea Shepherd’s vessel, the Bob Barker, had been living undercover with the ferocious islanders for a week when he heard news of a grind happening in Klaksvik over the radio. He immediately drove to the scene. Grossly outnumbered and unable to physically stop the grind, Hammarstedt documented the bloodshed upon arrival.

“Pilot whales are known to travel in pods of 200-300 members. Two hundred and thirty-six pilot whales were slaughtered last night in Klaksvik: bulls, pregnant and lactating females, juveniles, and unborn babies still attached to their mothers by the umbilical chord. An entire pod that once swam freely through the North Atlantic has been exterminated in a single blood bath,” said Hammarstedt.

“One whale had five to six brutal chops to her head,” reported Hammarstedt. “The islanders basically used her as a chopping board. Her death would have been slow and extremely painful. Some whales are hacked repeatedly for up to four minutes before they finally die.”

“Babies had been cut out of their mother’s dead bodies and left to rot on the docks,” said Hammarstedt, who photographed a number of dead infants and fetuses. “Pilot whale groups are strongly matriarchal; I can’t imagine the fear and panic that these mothers must have felt as their families were wiped out in front of them.

Pilot whales are classified as “strictly protected” under the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats. By allowing the slaughter to continue in the Faeroes, Denmark fails to abide by its obligations as a signatory of the Convention.

Several years ago the health authority of the Faroe Islands warned from human consumption. The meat of pilot whales, which belong to the group of dolphins is contaminated with toxic substances.”