Studio Tuesday Millions of people across England and beyond buy balloons, either for children’s parties or outdoor celebrations like weddings (some even release them to commemorate people). It may all seem like harmless fun, but it’s so the opposite. Some balloons (like mylar metallic balloons) never biodegrade. balloons are lethal to children Apart from weddings,…
marine creatures
how to help our charming seahorses
Yuliia Seahorses are the world’s most curious creatures. They are actually fish (they swim upright but are not very good at it, hence why they hang on to seagrass or coral to stop swaying about in choppy waters. Unique in that the males give birth, they ‘dance’ for around 9 hours during mating. With no…
how to help endangered sea turtles
Studio Tuesday There are many species of turtle including loggerheads, green sea, hawksbill, Kemp’s ridley, flatback and Olive ridley. Many are ‘ocean lawnmowers’ that eat seagrass, but giant leatherback turtles love searching for jellyfish in colder waters. But a third of all sea turtles now have plastic in their stomach, which is affecting their swims…
meet delightful coastal dolphins
Martin Allen Dolphins are one of earth’s most intelligent creatures (and England has 7 of the world’s 38 species), yet all are in danger from pollution, fishing waste and hunting. Evolved from land animals millions of years ago (their name is Greek for ‘fish with a womb’), they have eyesight ten times better than us,…