A little frog swimming in a little pond! Watching my precious village being destroyed by Amazon and greedy Developers. Doing my bit to keep litter at bay.
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There is a mountain of unworn clothes in the driest desert on earth, large enough to be photographed from space. It grows by 39,000 tons a year and almost none of it will ever rot.
The Atacama, in northern Chile, is a place where it may not rain for a decade. On its edge is a duty-free port called Iquique. Every year about 59,000 tons of clothing arrives there from Europe, America and Asia. It is last season's stock that never sold, and the bags people leave at charity shops.
Dealers pick through it for anything they can resell across South America. Two thirds of it is worthless. Nobody will pay to ship it back out, so lorries drive it into the desert at night and tip it.
The local landfill refuses to take it. The reason given is that the clothing does not biodegrade and is full of chemicals. Most of it is polyester, which is plastic, and in a place with no rain and no soil life it will lie there for centuries. Some of it is set alight, and the smoke drifts over a town of 100,000 people.
In 2025 a Chilean court ruled that the dumps had done serious damage to the land.
For most of history this could not have happened. Clothes were wool, linen and leather. They were worn out, handed down and patched, and at the very end a rag merchant paid for the scraps. In Yorkshire, from 1813, old woollens were shredded and spun into new cloth. Anything left went on the fields, where wool breaks down in months and feeds the grass.
Nobody ever had to find a desert for worn-out wool. We invented a fabric that cannot die, and then we started making it to be thrown away.
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If you feed your visiting hedgehogs, they will leave a healthy scent trail that sick hogs will follow.
So sooner or later you will have a casualty arrive who needs taking to a rescue.
It can be a worrying time, but being prepared will make things a lot easier and calmer.
Getting this kit together will take away the worry, and will last you for years of essential service.
More information: hedgehogcabin.info/emergency
Been helping at the annual reed clearance at my local pond today. This plastic bottle was found, made by Domestos Ltd, dates to the late 50’s ? Also amongst lots of bottle finds we found a fake nose 👃 How random!!
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I don't live in the middle of the New Forest.
This is a tiny triangle of woods at the end of my road.
But the water I put out there every night is the only water available for miles.
Despite some recent rain, the ponds, rivers and streams are all still dry from the drought.
So these poor deer, along with badgers, foxes, squirrels, hedgehogs, and all manner of birds are forced to travel miles each night to get to this water.
It's a lifesaver for them.
Please be a lifesaver for your local wildlife.
A dish of water in the back and front - even if you don't have a garden - may mean the difference between life and death to some poor struggling animal.
Please keep it full, and keep it clean, every night.
Please don't give up, it may take a while for the wildlife to find you.
Every single hedgehog through these hospital doors this year has been suffering from dehydration.
It's heartbreaking, hearing these dear sweet animals gasp their last breath, knowing that if someone, somewhere, only turned on their tap and put out some water this precious life would have been saved.
Our wildlife are dying of thirst.
In this green and pleasant land.
Weather and conditions have changed, and we need to change too, and help out those less fortunate than ourselves.
It's such a small effort, for such a huge reward.❤️🩹
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The #sea starts here. #sourcetosea #cigarettes #stormdrains #Bideford #Devon – at North Nibley, England
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I love these beach bins out in the undeveloped rocky coast of Fuerteventura. Often here on the rocky coves is marine plastic, large pieces like broken floats trays bits of boat as well as plastic bottles etc. Really useful beach cleaning check it out playapallet.com
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Please, please 🙏 sign this petition..what’s happening here is indefensible..to destroy a 100 year old orchard 🌳 🌳 🌳 brimming with #biodiversity for a “green” busway! This country is already one of most nature depleted in the world and yet this environmental vandalism continues.
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Melancholy this evening. Trying to find the closing words to speak for a place that should not have needed defending. What will the turtle doves, house martins, fieldfares… and cuckoos return to next season, if they return❓ #SaveCotonOrchard ✏️ change.org/p/save-the-green-…
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Ever hear of Laona, Wisconsin? 🤔
A few weeks ago, my Mermaid and I hopped in the Rat River and found a LOT of stuff in very shallow water! We didn’t even have to use our air tanks! We collected a bunch of fully intact bottles in the beginning and we think that’s because it was near a bar and road. Why the car horn was in there… not really sure! 😂
I had my gloves in the kayak and should’ve been wearing them the whole cleanup. I KNOW! 😬 There was broken glass everywhere, but we were able to remove a lot of it without an incident. 😁👍
A huge THANKS to a few local ladies and Jake’s House of Confusion for helping us dispose of all the litter we removed from the river! TEAMWORK!! 🤜🤛
It was great to visit Laona, WI! We love cleaning up waterways, we love each other and we love picking on each other in the process. 🥰 Thanks for watching and supporting our work! 🤿❤️🧜♀️🫧 – at Wisconsin, USA
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It's October, and despite the temperatures dropping a little, our wildlife is still suffering the effects of the drought, especially in the south of the country.
It really isn't normal to see an owl using a bird bath.
But with all the ponds, streams and rivers dried up, they are desperate.
You can see how incredibly nervous this poor owl is.
But birds need to bathe to keep their feathers in a safe condition, and that goes for our nocturnal birds too.
I've never seen such a variety of animals visit my little watering station.
The situation is dire.
So please remember to keep water out, front and back, at ground level, refreshed each evening with clean tap water.
Until we are blessed with some sustained rainfall, we are making the difference between life and death for so many creatures.
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We've teamed up with @lfg_uk for a National Day of Action to put pride back in our public spaces. Come and join us on October 11th! @GabbyLogan @KirstieMAllsopp
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🦔💚 Rescued in the nick of time... This poor hedgehog had a plastic ring tightly stuck around his middle - most likely caught around him when he was a tiny hoglet, gradually becoming tighter as he grew.
It’s difficult to imagine how long he had been suffering. Now, finally free.
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After searching for 1 1/2 hours, calling the dive off, but then trying just ONE MORE TIME… I FOUND DYLAN’S RING! 🤩👍 SWEET!!
This past Labor Day weekend, Dylan Setzer was putting his jet ski cover on and the elastic band forced his wedding band off his shrunken finger and into the water, near the end of his dock. 😬 He was very upset and REALLY wanted it back, so he had two divers come search for it for almost 12 total (combined) hours… with no luck. 😢 They used metal detectors, tried their best and searched high and low.
My Mermaid wasn’t able to join me today, as she was at home, preparing for a very special day tomorrow. 🥰🧜♀️
Dylan had me come out to the Wolf River in Shawano, WI today to search and I was able to meet his family and a neighbor too. Great folks! The metal plates at the bottom of the dock poles made it very difficult to pinpoint any other metal. I tried several times even and waved a bunch of sand away from them to search. After 1 1/2 hours of searching the rest of the area, finding & removing 2 rakes, 1 watch, a few washers & nails, 1 pair of sunglasses, 1 hammer and a few other items… Dylan said “let’s call it!”. 😢 We talked for a few minutes about the disappointment while I was shivering in my gear, still in the water. I ended up telling him “One more try!” for good luck 🍀 and wouldn’t ya know it… I FOUND IT REALLY FAST! 😳 It was a few inches under the sand, but directly on TOP of one of the metal plates, so my metal detector couldn’t differentiate them apart. 🫤 I waved a bunch of sand away and BOOM(!), THERE IT WAS! 😃👏
I recorded it all and can’t wait to show you the video, but WE WERE BOTH VERY EXCITED and he was VERY THANKFUL!! That wedding band meant a LOT to him and was made especially for him by a very talented jeweler, who has since passed.
It turned out, I was praying underwater during the search, while Dylan was praying above water. Our prayers were answered, but it took some patience… 😂⏰
Thanks to Dylan for getting me out there and to all the kiddos who grabbed all the other random items out of my hands while searching the area. 🤜🤛
SUCCESSFUL RECOVERY!! 💍
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637 LURES IN ONLY 50 MINUTES OF DIVING! 🤿👍
Ever wonder how many lures get lost in your favorite fishing hole? 🤔 I know that I used to wonder, but now we just go find out AND clean it all up!
All that fishing line, lead and plastic NEEDS to be removed, in order to keep our waterways clean and protect the water life! 🐟🦞 Even birds can suffer from it all! 🦆🦢🦅
Thanks to our Sponsor, NICOLET LAW, we are able to make a bigger difference across the Midwest, removing fishing line, lures, lead, metal, plastic, rubber and much more from our lakes and rivers!!
It all adds up and anyone can make a difference… even on shore. Healthy fishing habits help a bunch too, so if you keep getting snagged on something… move to a DIFFERENT spot! 😎👍
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