tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86278406354369857742024-03-19T06:02:40.873-07:00KEEP IT WILD!Science. Compassion. Action.Nadja Lubiw-Hazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743522829515989443noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627840635436985774.post-13948867991271637272016-12-19T15:44:00.002-08:002016-12-19T15:53:01.682-08:00A Keep It Wild visit to Johnsview Village Public School<br />
Grade 1/2 Students at Johnsview Village Public School had a Keep It Wild workshop on Friday. They learned all about the incredible adaptations that polar bears have to help them survive in an arctic environment. Then they learned about Yupi, a polar bear in a Mexican zoo, who is suffering from a lack of space, a hot climate, and a lack of enrichment. Polar bears deserve a captive habitat that is large and complex, and lets them engage in their natural behaviours.<br />
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Looking forward to the letters the students are going to write about Yupi, explaining what they learned and what they think of her zoo after comparing it to a wild habitat. </div>
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Nadja Lubiw-Hazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743522829515989443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627840635436985774.post-65531952533349901632016-04-06T14:55:00.002-07:002016-04-06T14:55:38.142-07:00Polar Bear Claws<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Book our Polar Bear Explorations workshop for grade 2's, and let your students check out polar bear claws and teeth, experiment with blubber and ice, compare wild and captive habitats, and join a campaign to help Yupi, a polar bear in a substandard zoo in Mexico.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This lovely children's picture book is based on the real-life story of an orphaned rhino in Swaziland. He was named Jubela, which means "a fighter" in Siswati, after he survived the shooting death of his mother, which usually spells death for a baby rhino. By hearing the story of his survival and eventual adoption by an old female rhino, readers connect with the plight of rhinos, 97 % of which have been lost to poachers over the last thirty years. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> This book's themes include perseverance, kindness, and protection. It is a great way for children to connect to the emotional lives of animals without any anthro</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">omorphizing of the animals involved. </span><br />
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Grade 4 students at Grenoble PS had a great time learning about orcas during their recent Keep It Wild workshop. They had a chance to build food chains, study spectrograms, experience sound waves travelling through bone, and try their best to catch their prey using echolocation. (We all agreed that orcas are way better at echolocation then humans!) </div>
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After learning about the bond that orcas form with their families, many students were concerned to find out that Kiska, a captive orca whale at Marineland, is living alone, without any other orcas to socialize with. Many of their orca pictures featured another orca for Kiska to play with and communicate with.</div>
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The students wrote postcards to share their ideas and opinions about orcas in captivity. Many students suggested changing her captive habitat so that she could have more space, could hunt live prey, and could socialize with another whale. Other students hoped that Kiska might some day be released back into the wild.<br />
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Stay tuned for more great pictures from the grade 4 Grenoble students.Nadja Lubiw-Hazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743522829515989443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627840635436985774.post-42609152026720233852015-04-06T11:49:00.001-07:002015-04-06T11:49:22.226-07:00Comparing Polar Bear Habitats<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Grade 2 students at Clairlea PS had a great time learning more about polar bear adaptations during their recent Keep It Wild workshop. They got to experiment with blubber mitts to see how polar bears are insulated against icy waters, and to discover how polar bears migrate across the frozen ice in search of seals. Then they compared the habitat of Yupi, a polar bear in captivity in Mexico, with the natural habitat of the polar bear. </div>
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Students used persuasive writing to send a message to the zoo in Mexico. Many students suggested sending Yupi to a polar bear sanctuary in Northern Ontario (Cochrane Polar Bear Habitat). <div>
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Animaniacs Camp in Kitchener-Waterloo invited Keep It Wild to their March Break Camp this week. Kids had a great time learning more about polar bears in the wild, and finding out how they can get involved in a campaign to get Yupi the Polar Bear moved from Mexico to a more suitable habitat. <br />
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Check out this great video by students at Davyhulme primary school in the UK. After learning about Yupi the polar bear's situation the students wanted to do something to help. They are hoping to raise awareness about the issue of polar bears in captivity in hot climates. What a fantastic and inspiring video. Thanks for trying to help the animals! </div>
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A student cycling team in China is raising public awareness about elephant poaching during their bike tour across Shandong province this month.. They will urge the Chinese public to not purchase ivory through this campaign. Learn more through <a href="http://www.hsi.org/news/press_releases/2014/10/cycling-for-elephants-china-world-animal-day100114.html">Humane Society International</a>, which is sponsoring the event. The students hope that they can demonstrate their sympathy for the plight of elephants, and their commitment to be a part of the global effort to stop the ivory trade. Organizers for the event are concerned about the lack of progress China has made towards banning the ivory trade. </div>
Nadja Lubiw-Hazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743522829515989443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627840635436985774.post-11843461880092133082014-10-10T16:06:00.002-07:002014-10-10T16:06:54.384-07:00What do Kids Learn at the Zoo?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Join Zoocheck's 30th Anniversary Celebration at Pawsway in Toronto on Saturday November 22nd. We will be honouring thirty great years of wild animal protection. Tickets are $50 and are available at zoocheck.com or by calling 416-285-1744. The evening will include entertainment, special guests, yummy vegan treats and a silent auction. And children 12 and under are free! </div>
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Join hundreds of other animal activists for the Global March in Toronto on Saturday October 4th at 2 pm. Meet up at Trinity Square (between the Eaton Centre and Nathan Phillips Square). The March is to bring attention to the senseless killing of elephants and rhinos for their tusks, and the farming of lions for tourism and trophy hunting. Take action by participating in this event and letting your voice be heard. The animals need your help! </div>
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<br />Nadja Lubiw-Hazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743522829515989443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627840635436985774.post-51266066548363017462014-09-02T07:12:00.000-07:002014-09-02T07:12:07.210-07:00A Back to School BookThe Midnight Zoo, by Sonya Hartnett, is a great book to start off the school year. The story is a magical fable set in a zoo in the middle of a bombed-out village during the war. Two young Roma brothers on the run discover the zoo and its inhabitants - a wolf and eagle, monkey and bear, lioness and seal, kangaroo and llama, chamois and bear - as they flee the through the darkness. It is a story about war and its devastating effects, but also a story about captivity and freedom.<br />
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<i> </i>The book's main theme of freedom speaks to both animals and people, the freedom of animals to live in the wild, not in zoos under human control, and the freedom of humans to live in peace, not in the middle of someone else's war. The book is set in World War II, but written in a way that it could be any war, any time, making it very relevant.<br />
Each animal's story, as well as that of the children, is revealed though the night. One of the most powerful and heart-breaking tale's is the seal's, who swims in endless circles in its tiny pool.<br />
"The shiny streak of animal was sweeping up and down the length of its pool exactly as it had been doing when the children first saw it. Its pace, which was swift, was also unaltering, nor did its ceaseless circuit veer even slightly from its invisible track...The seal seemed nothing more than a shadowy shape that had taken on a relentless life and a strange, perpetual mission..Andrej asked the bear, 'Is this all it does? Just swim back and forth?' 'What else should it do?' said the bear."<br />
For anyone who has seen an animal in a zoo pacing endlessly, or rocking repetitively, the seal's behaviour will sound familiar. This is stereotypic behaviour, which is an abnormal repetitive behaviour that has no obvious function, such as pacing in a figure-eight pattern. The cause of these behaviours in zoo animals relates to their boredom, lack of space, frustration, and inability to perform natural behaviours.<br />
The bear in the story continues to talk about the seal: "Of course it remembers [the ocean]. Its mind is filled with the crashing of waves. The ocean called out to it from the moment it was born. Its ancestors swam there; its kin swim there today. It remembers the ocean because its blood and bones cannot forget it. Somewhere out there, there's a gap in the water, a place which is hollow because the seal isn't there."<br />
Sonya Hartnett, who is the winner of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, has written a marvelous book that captures the essence of what it means to be a wild animal, and what it means to be free. <br />
If you are an older student, grade 4 or above, this book is a must-read. If you are a teacher, you might find the <a href="http://www.sonyahartnett.com.au/ui/pdf/The_Midnight_Zoo.pdf">teacher resource</a> from Penguin Books useful. Although this is a children's book, adults will also enjoy it immensely; it explores deep themes, and is written in beautiful, lyrical prose.Nadja Lubiw-Hazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743522829515989443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627840635436985774.post-18354564238991904672014-08-17T16:57:00.003-07:002014-08-17T16:57:49.015-07:00Find us on School Shows<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Hey teachers. You can now find our workshops on School Shows. Check them out: <a href="http://www.schoolshows.ca/">here</a></div>
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Nadja Lubiw-Hazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743522829515989443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627840635436985774.post-82352799374020751442014-08-01T10:26:00.000-07:002014-08-01T10:26:23.865-07:00Postcards for Kiska<br />
This past year grade 4 students at Clairlea learned all about orcas in their Awesome Orcas <i>Keep It Wild</i>! workshop. Students spent a long time discussing the differences between the natural habitat of orcas and life in captivity. <div>
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<i>I love your rides and all, but your whale shows concern me. I think you should make the whales happy. </i></div>
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<i>A greeting! I would like to talk about orca whales. I think you shouldn't keep them in captivity because children aren't learning what whales are. In the wild they are the number 1 predator. </i></div>
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We are working on some new postcards for marketing our workshops. Here's a great parrot painting by one of our KIW student particpants that would be great for our newest workshop, coming in 2015, a grade 6 workshop on Biodiversity and Exotic Pets. We're looking forward to delivering the new postcards and to meeting some grade 6 classrooms in the upcoming school year. </div>
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Keep It Wild visited a summer camp today to present our Gorilla Trackers workshop. Kids had a lot of fun measuring and dissecting their gorilla dung and finding seeds. Gorillas play an important role keeping the forest healthy by dispersing seeds of several different fruit trees. The kids also shared their great ideas about how to help wild gorilla habitats by reducing, re-using and recycling paper. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Dear Zookeeper. Please give Yupi some toys. from Elvis.Nadja Lubiw-Hazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743522829515989443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627840635436985774.post-26473404888390960722014-05-14T14:41:00.000-07:002014-05-14T14:42:05.092-07:00Wildlife in the City<br />
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Check out this link to <a href="http://www.earthtouchnews.com/in-the-field/backyard-wildlife/10-graffiti-murals-that-bring-wildlife-to-the-urban-jungle">Earthtouch</a>, featuring 10 graffiti murals that bring wildlife to the city. What a great way to bring nature into an urban setting.Nadja Lubiw-Hazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743522829515989443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627840635436985774.post-19401472219188684372014-03-07T07:51:00.001-08:002014-03-07T07:51:24.571-08:00Update on Yupi the Polar Bear<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Yupi is a female polar bear living in Parque Zoologico Benito Juarez in Morelia Mexico. Her concrete enclosure has very little shade and nothing to do. The soaring temperatures in Mexico are difficult for a polar bear to deal with as they are adapted to survive in Arctic conditions and overheat easily. One of the worst parts of her captivity is that for the majority of the day, as much as seventeen hours, she is locked off-site in a barren concrete cell. <div>
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The grade 2 students at Ressor Park recently participated in a Keep It Wild workshop about polar bears, and they learned about Yupi's plight. To learn more about our workshops, check out <a href="http://www.keepitwildeducation.com/">our website</a> Here are some of their comments:</div>
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<i>Dear Zookeeper. Please give Yupi snow and a colder place. </i>- Hayden</div>
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Nadja Lubiw-Hazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743522829515989443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627840635436985774.post-39788131040294107682014-02-17T06:21:00.000-08:002014-06-27T15:38:22.225-07:00Lolita the Killer WhaleLolita is an orca whale captured from the wild in 1970. She has been on display at the Miami Seaquarium in Florida ever since. She is the last surviving orca from a group of almost 50 whales of the Southern Resident Community from the west coast that were captured and used for entertainment between 1965 and 1973.<br />
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Lolita was only four years old when she was captured. She has been living in a tank that is only 35 X 80 feet, which is illegal according to the Animal Welfare Act. The tank is also only 18-20 feet deep. There is no protection from the sun, and perhaps worst of all, she is kept alone, socially isolated from any other whales.<br />
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<br />Nadja Lubiw-Hazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743522829515989443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627840635436985774.post-11150332084413598292014-01-31T09:37:00.000-08:002014-01-31T09:37:28.820-08:00Join Zoocheck for an evening of discussion and images about animals<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Nadja Lubiw-Hazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743522829515989443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627840635436985774.post-30849497241985141112013-12-13T12:00:00.000-08:002013-12-13T12:05:01.427-08:00Elephants at the Bowmanville Zoo <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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On December 3rd, Limba the elephant was euthanized at the Bowmanville Zoo. Elephants are very social animals but Limba has lived alone for many years. In October a mass was discovered in her abdomen and later a tumour on her spleen. Despite her serious illness she was still made to walk in the Santa Claus parade a few weeks before. </div>
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Many are concerned that the Bowmanville Zoo is planning to purchase a new elephant to replace Limba. According to CAZA (Canada's Accredited Zoos and Aquariums) zoos should make every effort to maintain elephants in social groupings. They also state it is inappropriate to keep highly social female elephants singly long term. </div>
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Please let the Bowmanville Zoo know how you feel about elephants being kept alone, socially isolated from a group, and how you feel about them acquiring an elephant to replace Limba. You can email them at info@bowmanvillezoo.com, call them at 905-623-5655, or send them a letter at 340 King Street East, Bowmanville, Ontario, L1C 3K5</div>
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You may also be interested in signing a petition about this issue at <a href="https://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/african-lion-safari-do-not-sell-your-elephants-to-bowmanville-ne-vendez-pas-vos-%C3%A9l%C3%A9phants-%C3%A0-bowmanville?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=43665&alert_id=WnKtKBTfqw_ioMdQhIlCI">Change.org</a></div>
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Grade 4 students at Grenoble recently participated in a Keep It Wild workshop about orcas. They learned a lot about orcas in the wild. </div>
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They learned that orcas live in large open spaces in the ocean, travelling </div>
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They learned that orcas live in tight social groups, never leaving their family. </div>
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They also compared the orca's wild habitat to that of Kiska's, a lone whale that lives in Marineland, in Ontario Canada.<br />
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<i>Kiska is alone. She misses her family. </i>- Hatem<br />
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<i>I thnk Kiska is sad that all five kids have died. </i>- Tudor<br />
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<i>I think you should let her go or bring another orca because Kiska will be sad. </i><br />
- Kademcan<br />
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<u>Here are some of their comments about how to improve Kiska's habitat:</u><br />
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<i>You can keep Kiska so others can see her too. But just get Kiska another whale to keep Kiska busy. Make her feel like home. </i>- Tia</div>
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<i>I think you should let Kiska have a lot of other orcas in there with Kiska and give her more room. </i></div>
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- Maariyah<br />
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<i>Please put more fish into Kiska's pool. She needs to learn to hunt. Also please give Kiska a bigger pool. That's all I want. </i>- Shadman<br />
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<i>Kiska should get a friend. She is alone. At least she can have fun with someone like her, not like people. She is missing happiness. </i>- Sarah<br />
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<i>I think you should make it look like under the sea if you are going to keep Kiska. </i>- Deyono<br />
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<u>Some students thought that her captive habitat was not appropriate, and wanted Kiska released back to the wild:</u><br />
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<i>I wish that you let Kiska free. But first teach her to hunt and breed and all other stuff.</i> - Ryan<br />
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<i>Please let Kiska go. A whale's life is supposed to be exciting, but Kiska's life is boring because there is no adventure in her life. </i>- Mariah<br />
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<i>It isn't nice to have a living thing captured. Kiska needs love and family. She's part of the wild. Please let her go. </i>- Nabiha<br />
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<i>Can you please stop keeping Kiska. She is alone. There is no one to talk to her. She is sad. </i>- Siraj<br />
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<i>You should let Kiska out of there and let her have space and let her explore a little bit of the world. </i><br />
- Hud.<br />
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<i>Let Kiska go. She must be very alone in a small place. Let her have some fun with her friends. </i><br />
- Ruhaba<br />
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<i>Kiska should be free from your cage. Let her be wild. Would you like it if you were forced to do entertainment? Before you let her wild, train her how to hunt. -</i> Areesh<br />
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<u>Others were concerned about the issue of orcas in captivity, not just Kiska</u>:<br />
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<i>Do not capture more orcas because then the orcas wouldn't be with its family. It will lose the population of orcas in the wild. </i>- Michael<br />
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<i>I hope Kiska and the other whales get to be free. Please let whales be in the wild. More of them are losing their families. </i>- Safiullah<br />
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<i>If the orca can't take care of its babies then you should not get more animals. </i>- Mateen<br />
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<i>You should let Kiska go. And the other animals that are alone, because they have nothing to do. </i><br />
- Esfar<br />
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Thanks for all your great ideas! You are making the world a better place for animals by sharing your thoughts on how animals feel and how we should treat them.<br />
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Nadja Lubiw-Hazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743522829515989443noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627840635436985774.post-76259995196156057342013-11-29T16:56:00.000-08:002013-11-29T16:59:04.788-08:00Save The Polar Bears! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The grade 2 and 3 students at Reesor Park P.S. have been busy working on a campaign to save polar bears in the wild. Polar bears migrate across the sea ice to hunt for polar bears, but global warming is causing the sea ice to melt early. The students have been learning about ways that they can help stop global warming. </div>
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Check out some of their great posters to learn ways to help the polar bears. </div>
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Keep up the great work Reesor Park! You're doing a great job helping wild animals. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) has a Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, displayed from November 23 2013 until March 23 2014. The competition celebrates nature and wildlife and captures animals in their natural settings. A recent Toronto Star article about the exhibit says: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><i>The elephants have left Toronto's zoo, but you can find some more at the Royal Ontario Museum.</i> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Read more of the article </span><a href="http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2013/11/24/roms_new_exhibit_focuses_on_nature_photos.html" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">here</a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">. To learn more about the exhibit, check out the </span><a href="http://www.rom.on.ca/en/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">ROM's website</a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">. </span></span><br />
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