Your laundry basket is hiding a boatload of one of the most common—and insidious—types of plastic pollution. 🔍
Microplastic fibers are #NotSafeForWash! 🚨
These fibers make up more than 90% of microplastics ingested by marine wildlife. ⚠️
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Intrepid volunteers have collected more than 11 million rare seeds from remote locations - enabling almost 8 million trees to be grown for woodland restoration projects across Scotland.
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Plastic pollution is choking our oceans, washing up on the world’s most remote coastlines, and sitting at the deepest points of the ocean floor.
But it doesn't have to be this way. This #PlasticFreeJuly, pledge to help protect marine life and our oceans: https://t.co/rZxBIlVHHs
Happy #WorldPollinatorWeek! 🐝🦋🦇
Pollinators do the quiet work keeping ecosystems alive. A pollinator is simply any creature that carries pollen from flower to flower.
It’s a longer list than you’d think: bees, butterflies, beetles, wasps, flies, ants, birds, bats, squirrels, and mice. 👇 (1/2)
Grumpy face, a li’l scruffy, standing or hopping and fully feathered? Yup, that’s a fledgling. Unless they’re injured or in danger, you can usually let them be.
A fledgling is a bird who’s just left the nest. They don’t fly much at first, but this is normal. If they can stand or hop and are covered in feathers, they’re likely fine. Their parents are usually nearby foraging for food to feed them. If you’re not sure, wait and watch from a distance to see if the parents show up.
If a fledgling is in a road or other dangerous spot, it’s OK to move them to a safer place nearby but only a few feet away! A fledgling is still dependent on their parents, and the parents must be able to find them.
**Note: Pigeons are the exception. Pigeons stay in the nest a long 4 weeks and look almost like adults when they fledge. Usually if a pigeon looks too young to be out of the nest (short wings, short tail, fuzzy head), they are.**
If you’re not sure, send us a photo or contact your local wildlife rehabber.