People are threatened by drought, changes in rainfall, altered seasons, and more and more violent storms and floods. As habitats change, many wild animals and plants could also be pushed over the edge towards extinction.
You're there, you're in the shop. It looks nice, it’s unusual– and it would make a great talking point when you get home. But it could be made from the skin, fur, bone, beak or hooves of an endangered species.
If you buy it, you're just going to encourage whoever killed it, or made it, to do it all over again.
If we are lucky enough to be able to visit some of this planet's most glorious places, we not only bring our camera and our money, but our waste and our demands. This can end up destroying the very thing we came there to find.
It’s unbelievable, but true. Every year about 13 million hectares of natural forest are lost. That’s the equivalent of 36 football fields a minute! Be sure that you are buying good wood!
How much l;onger can we eat seafood? We are bulldozing, scooping, sieving and raking our oceans for all their worth.
If you eat seafood, all you have to do is keep looking out for, asking for and buying when you can, seafood labelled with the blue MSC (Marine Stewardship Council) logo.
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