Ocean Animals

11/04/2022

🚨ALARMING RISE OF SEA LEVEL🚨

The Arctic is certainly losing the ice at an exponentially fast speed owing to the rise in global temperatures. This is having an impact directly on the lives of the people and biodiversity and creating loopholes in the feedback regarding the fuel is causing the warming.

New research has revealed that Antarctica is the most vulnerable region that is facing intense environmental risks. This might coerce the choices of the countries and make them take some stringent decisions regarding the emission of greenhouse gases and the survival of coastal cities including New York and Shanghai in the future.

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Antarctica has emerged as the wild card for the sea-level rise because it comprises a vast quantity of ice that can possibly increase the sea level by over 60 meters

07/04/2022

MARK YOUR CALENDARS 🗓️

World OCEAN'S Day is just right around the corner. For your information, the month of June is the World Ocean's Month. June 8th is World Ocean Day – a great time to celebrate all that the ocean does for us and focus on keeping it healthy for future generations. 🌊💦💧

Help us celebrate it by following these 8 actions you can take to protect and celebrate the ocean today, tomorrow and every day:

1.) Walk, bike or even swim to work. Stop driving so much!
2.) Offset your carbon with seagrass restoration​​. Why plant a tree when you can restore seagrass? (Read this article to learn how you can restore seagrass: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.00617/full)
3.) Stop using plastic and reduce your junk!
4.) Volunteer for a local cleanup!
5.) Make sure you know where your seafood comes from. Buy local seafood from local sources. Support your community!
6.) Invest like you care about the ocean.
7.) Help us create a healthy ocean and give back!
8.) Make your summer vacation the best for you and the best for the ocean.

Learn more:
https://oceanfdn.org/8-ways-to-celebrate-world-oceans-day-every-day/

07/04/2022

"It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself."

- Rachel Carson, Marine Biologist

07/04/2022

🔇 VOICE OF THE VOICELESS 🔇

We, humans, have sent a lot of animal species to their permanent deaths in the form of extinction. Endangered animals are those that are facing the same fate. Read on to know about one such animation video that deals with the heartbreaking thought while being immensely powerful.

Learn more:
https://theplanetvoice.com/endangered-animals-gives-their-voice-animation/

Listen to the song here:
https://youtu.be/RjMzXykfbm8

Endangered animals continue to face an uncertain doom. Just as humans are the cause, they can also stop it. This animation should inspire you to do so.

07/04/2022

🦀WORLD'S LARGEST LAND CRAB EXTINCTION🦀

People living in this region consider it a delicacy. This, along with the destruction of their habitat, is gradually driving the coconut crabs to extinction.

Climate change is another enemy for the coconut crabs. Rising sea levels will wipe out most of the coral atolls where they live.

Another factor that plays against the coconut crabs is their lifespan. Their long survival rate causes them to take years to repopulate once the adults are killed.

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These creatures look straight out of a science fiction movie. The giant scary-looking omnivorous coconut crabs feast on coconuts, which they can easily crush with their giant claws, and live prey on trees. But they are being hunted to extinction by humans. Charles Darwin mentioned them when he came....

07/04/2022

About the Admin:

Hi I'm Stephen Garcia, an 18 year old SHS Grade 12 student advocate from Remnant International Christian School, hoping to raise awareness on one of the most critical issues we are facing today. Human activities continous to wreck havoc in our ocean, such as water pollution, overfishing, oil spills, coral bleaching, illegal fishing, and trashing the ocean with plastics! I campaign for a cleaner and bluer ocean for the ocean animals. Let us not destroy their beautiful habitats. Let us work together to save the Ocean Animals! 🌊

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07/04/2022

WHAT WE CAN DO? 🤔

This graph from Snorkel Adventure Destin shows 5 great ways everyone can do their part to help save the ocean! Vapur wants to just add in one more idea to make it 6 Easy Ways to help save the oceans!! Our addition is to use a reusable water bottle. Stop purchasing single use plastic bottles today and buy a reusable bottle to fill up over and over.

Learn More:
https://www.vapur.us/blog/6-easy-ways-to-help-save-the-ocean.html

07/04/2022

PLASTICS IN SEAFOODS WE EAT 😟

A new study of five different kinds of seafood revealed traces of plastic in every sample tested.

Researchers bought raw samples of popular seafood from a market in Australia, including 10 oysters, 10 farmed tiger prawns, 10 wild squid, five wild blue crab and 10 wild sardines, reported Daily Mail. At least trace levels of plastic contamination were found in each, with the highest content found in sardines, according to the research.

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Learn more:
https://www.ecowatch.com/seafood-study-plastic-contamination-2646982206.html

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07/04/2022

THE ONLY ANIMAL THAT CAN PHOTOSYNTHESIZE?! 😲🤯

‘Leaf sheep’ are a bizarre kind of sea slugs that is biologically named ‘Costasiella Kuroshimae’. This sea slug has recently become viral and gained massive attention from the netizens and all for positive reasons. This leaf sheep does not only have a completely strange and cute name but also has a very cute appearance. In addition to this, this sea slug is categorized as the only multicellular animal clade which is able to photosynthesize light and turn it into food. 🐛☀️

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The process of photosynthesis conducted by these special sea slugs is called ‘kleptoplasty’. The leaf sheep make use of the retained chloroplasts in order to photosynthesize energy.

06/04/2022

💡DID YOU KNOW THAT?💡

OYSTERS are natural purifiers? a single adult oyster can clean about 50 gallons of water per day. And their reefs can provide a habitat for other marine life and help protect shores against storm surge during rough weather. 🌊

Learn more:
https://www.oneearth.org/oysters-natures-water-filtration-system/ #:~:text=But%20not%20only%20do%20oysters,cause%20problems%20in%20Bay%20waters.

06/04/2022

❗PLASTIC❗

A great challenge that the earth faces currently is the crisis wrought by plastic. Presently, a humongous amount of plastic fills up our oceans every year – 12.7 million metric tonnes. The consequences are tragic, especially for marine life. These include turtles getting choked and whales getting poisoned. ☢️

Learn more:
https://theplanetvoice.com/plastic-crisis-and-5-surprising-solutions-for-it/

06/04/2022

⚠️MARINE MASS EXTINCTION?⚠️

The Equator with its tropical water is best known to shelter rich diverse marine life across the globe. We can find vibrantly colored coral reefs along with huge aggregations of sea turtles, whale sharks, manta rays, and tunas. The large figure of marine life appears to be tapering off naturally as we move towards the polar regions.

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Water bodies are warming at an exponentially rapid speed in recent decades owing to global warming, the moving of marine life from the equator has greatly increased.