'Unseen' News and Views
A whale shark swims in the warm water off the coast of the Philippines. © Paul Hilton / Greenpeace
1) Sharks have inhabited planet Earth for approximately 400 million years
That’s 200 million years longer than dinosaurs, roughly 2000 times longer than humans and before trees existed. In total, sharks have survived five mass extinctions.
By UN Environment* — In 1850, a tiger’s pawprints could be found in both the hardpacked snow of Siberian forests and the soft beach sands of Bali. Tigers roamed from the edge of Europe at the Caspian Sea to the shores of the Pacific. To walk into most of Asia’s forest at that time was to enter the domain of one of the most impressive apex predators on the planet.
Foto de GTC/DoFPS (from UN Environment).
Upwards of 100,000 tigers ruled the continent’s wilderness then.
Far from tyrants, their reign as a keystone species at the top of the food chain allowed countless species and ecosystems to flourish in their dominion.
Today, the tiger’s range is a mere 7 per cent of what it once was. Their numbers, a mere fraction.
28 July 2019 (Wall Street International)* — A little more than five years ago, this hemisphere received what we can say was the first massive and silent migration of Venezuelans. A migration with economic purposes and guaranteed return. There were no reproaches or scorn.
Please read this (and ask your grown-ups to explain and… behave themselves)
It looks like a funny tale. But it is much more than just that—it is about nothing less than your health.
If you, wonderful kids, can read it and understand it by yourselves, that would be really great.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 