WWF's Earth Book - Be part of something big…

Flamingo (Flamenco Xcaret, Playa del Carmen, Mexico)

How many of you thought and appreciated the planet they live on? How many of you took the time to listen to the wind? How many of you tried to smell the fresh air coming from the trees in the morning How many of you interacted with other animals to show them that we all live together on this planet? Why cutting trees from your homes and neighbor hood when it gives you air Why killing wild animals when they don't do anything wrong, just for a hobby or for fur. Why torturing innocent street animals (cats/dogs..etc), while they try to live with us with not so many chances to survive. Take the time to do so, appreciate their existence, because they all complete you There is a harmony between all creatures on this planet, each creature completes the other, and life goes on. What a beautiful day to appreciate the planet we are on, i wish you a happy Earth day everyone. and i will take those lyrics from a Disney movie Pocahontas a song titled "Color of the winds", such a beautiful song that touched me when i was a child, and still does. Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned? Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? Can you paint with all the colors of the wind? Can you paint with all the colors of the wind? Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest Come taste the sunsweet berries of the Earth Come roll in all the riches all around you And for once, never wonder what they're worth The rainstorm and the river are my brothers The heron and the otter are my friends And we are all connected to each other In a circle, in a hoop that never ends How high will the sycamore grow? If you cut it down, then you'll never know And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon For whether we are white or copper skinned We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains We need to paint with all the colors of the wind You can own the Earth and still All you'll own is Earth until You can paint with all the colors of the wind

UNA MAÑANA DEL 1O DE JULIO EN LA SIERRA FUI A LA MONTAÑA PARA DARME UN PASEO Y RESPIRAR AIRE LIMPIO CON TRNQUILIDAD ME ENCONTRE POR EL CAMINO DIVERSOS ANIMALES ALGUNOS NO MUY COMUNES QUE NO SULEN VERSE TODOS LOS DIAS .ESE DIA ME ENCONTRE EN UNA SITUACION UN POCO PELIAGUDA PORQUE CONTEMPLE UNA PELEA ENTRE DOS ASGUILA Y UN BUITRE FUE MUY EMOCIONANTE EN PLENA NATURALEZA. A MEDIO DIA COMIMOS EN UN BAR DE COTO RIOS CONTEMPLANDO LOS ANIMALES COMO COMEN AL LADO NUESTRA Y TAMBIEN PUEDES DARLE DE COMER A ELLOS CON PURA TRANQUILIDAD. POR LA TARDE ESTUVIMOS BAÑANDONOS EN DIVERSOS RIOS DE COTO RIOS Y POR LA NOCHE EN SILENCIO PODIAS VER LOS ANIMALES MAS CERCA JABALISES, CIERVOS, MACHOS MONTESES ,AGUILAS ETC.. FUI UN DIA INCREIBLE Y MUY TRANQUILO.

Todo paso un dia de primavera ,decidimos ir a la sierra de segura a pasar un buen dia en familia yendo exactamente a las lagunas de ruidera y riomundo,las palabras para describir esa zona era "Un paisaje idílico" me cautivaron esas pequeñas lagunas agrupadas entre si que transcurrian a lo largo de un rio,ese era su afluente. Conforme ibamos avanzando era mas y mas bonito te embrujaba mas y mas,he visto muchas cosas bonitas relacionadas con la naturaleza ,pero como ese sitio casi inexplorado ningun otro. Se encuantras limitrofes a Castillas La Mancha y Albacete. A cualquier persona de cualquier lugar remoto incito a que lo visiten ,ademas de conocer otros alrrededores cautivadores tambien.

95% of the world's wild tiger population gone in the last century. 3,200 tigers left in the wild. We could save these mighty creatures only by teamwork. I once went to London zoo, and I was never more disappointed than this day. Nearly all the creatures were locked behind these sorts of enormous windows, and they looked so sick and bored and sad! The tiger was sleeping all day long... A zoo is just an animal prison, nothing more! I don't see the point of visiting a zoo! The best way of seeing a tiger is watching it in the wild, chasing oother animals, playing!

I can't really tell when my love for these beautiful creatures began. I guess I must have been young since my mum tells me that I just hated every other animal (yet I adored elephants)! Since then, my love has grown and I think that when I grow up I would like to work in aid of WWF. It's such an amazing charity and I would like to do my bit. That's why I've created a Facebook page named 'Save the Gentle Giants' that I hope will help to support WWF in its quest for illegal animal trade to cease. Please follow to help these creatures. Elephants are sweet creatures that are often understood. They only charge when they are angry or upset. They might also feel that someone is intruding in their personal space. How would you feel? Elephants need to be treated like a human. Although I have never been to Africa or witnessed any spectacular events, I really would like to go and help these lovely creatures to survive against idiot poachers who need a reality check and locked up in prison until they are just bones. SAVE THE ELEPHANTS NOW!!!!

On a safari in Kenya and Tanzania our jeep drew to a slow stop. Why we wondered. Our clever guide had read the signs and knew there was a herd of elephants nearby. We stared, watching quietly from our position below an incline in the land. The herd appeared over the top of the incline and wandered past us taking little interest in us. We were taking much interest in them. My heart was pounding, my throat was dry, as emotion welled up inside me at my first ever sighting of a herd of these majestic and unique animals. I couldn't speak, I thought I might cry. I was completely overwhelmed by what I was watching. I am not alone in being overcome at watching wildlife. It is something that must be preserved and saved for others now and future generations to enjoy. Data indicates that **17,000 elephants were killed by poachers in 2011**. A decision taken at the final meeting of the CITES conference in Bangkok is meant to compel the worst offending countries to tougher action. The “gang of eight” countries include the supply states, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, plus the consumer states of China and Thailand. The group also includes three countries - Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines - which are important in the transit of ivory. It is vital that action is taken, and is seen to be taken and effective, in these countries or there may not be a passing herd to overwhelm other safari visitors... and they sure would be missing a moment that will live with them for the whole of the rest of their life, just as I will never forget that moment. Do all you can to help protect the survival of elephants!

"Today I am going to tell you all the cats' names I know. Jaguar, Puma, Lynx, Tiger, Leopard, Cheetah, Panther, Lion, caracal, Bobcat, Jaguarundi, Fishing cat, Liger, Ocelot, serval,Snow tigers, Domestic cats.

I don't have a story I just want to say sorry :'( I don't have much hope for us but if this wee book survives and someone, something stumbles across it in the future, I want them to know humanity wasn't evil. We didn't carelessly fail our beautiful planet, we tried to save her but we didn't have the power, the numbers, maybe the courage, to stand up to the hierarchy that controls most of us. We failed ourselves and we failed our beautiful Gaia too. We're just a virus to her now, we'll be gone soon and rightly so, but Gaia will survive, grow strong and thrive again, She'll give life to others and, unlike us, I hope they respect, love and cherish her. I'm ashamed of my race but I still hope something might happen, enough people might see the light in the short time we have left .......... it's a pretty vain hope but it's all I have left... COME ON people what's wrong with you?? why do you allow those fools to control and manipulate you?? Why and when did you stop looking beyond the surface?? Why and when did you start blindly accepting whatever cock & bull story your government fed you?? Can't you see how they create fear in order to control you and how you passively participate in your own subjugation by accepting and reacting to the fear you're fed?? Have they sedated you so much that you can't even look one layer beyond the ridiculous stories they feed you? Or is humanity really 90% thick as bricks, an evolutionary mistake, are we the experiment that failed? Have we only existed in order to provide a lesson, so things can be done better next time? I'm so frigging exasperated with my fellow man :( They know they have you, they're confident you won't fight them, hell they don't even bother with details any longer, you lot believe anything. Do you honestly believe Osama caused all that terror? Haven't you ever wondered, even for a minute, why the twin towers imploded in a controlled demolition? why the metal in the basement melted when the planes only hit the top? why troops supposedly killed the world's 'most wanted man' and immediately buried him at sea - do you really believe that? really believe he's dead? Do you understand why Dianna was killed? Have you ever bothered to read up on the trajectory of the bullets that killed JFK? Don't you ever wonder why Bush & Blair aren't being tried as war criminals too? Dear god I could say so much more but what's the point? Work it out yourselves. Open your eyes, open your ears. For god's sake people WAKE UP

"For me all of these animals important, if animals didn't egsist I would kill myself because it would be apsolotly boring. Just by hereing that animals get killed makes me want to kill the people who are killing them. The only way to stop this is to jion toghether and raise money. We can even draw pictures of animals, make cardbaord animals or make animal birthday or christmas cards and then sell them at a serten price and if we do lots of them we can help. I love all of the creatures so I don't have a faviorite, I would even kill myself if that ment that all the animals could live."

I have started to realise how many products include palm oil (and yes palm fat is made from palm oil) not just foods include it but cosmetics as well. Most people probably do not realise what harm they are doing when they are buying products with palm oil in them so I think that people need to be taught more about the effects of rapidly built palm plantations, because of the demand in the stores deforestation is happening at an alarming rate - every minute a bit of forest the size of a football pitch it lost, destroying many habitats. Not only do they destroy habitats but they put 'rat poison' on them and many more animals lose their lives because of this in a slow painful death. None of this would happen if people were more aware of the effects of palm oil, not only this but bug brands label palm oil as vegetable oil because the palm oil they use is unsustainable. If the product is label with palm oil then it is most likely to be sustainable meaning the plantation has not been rapidly produced. We need to help WWF protect the rainforest.

是的，我们已经对不起一个白鳍豚了！难道还要对不起一个江豚吗？！不要把曾经和我们一起生活过的动物朋友们遗忘！不要让白鳍豚的今天成为江豚的明天！保护江豚,留住江豚可爱的微笑就是留住我们的未来！因为我不想将来的某天，我的孩子对于江豚的记忆就像我对于白鳍豚记忆一样，只能从图片，标本，视频里缅怀，流泪。不想以后的我们只能从资料里捕获只言片语，了解他们曾经留在这个世上的痕迹。我知道我的能力有限，但我相信大家的力量。

They might be here now, but pretty soon species like the Amur leopard and polar bear are going to be extinct. Amur leopards are my favourite animals......... Sweet, cute and able to jump over 3 meters vertically, they are pretty amazing. As well as being cute and fury, they are also powerful and deadly hunters. But they are being hunted themselves. Threatened by poaching, deforestation and forest fires, we need to act soon. There are less than 35 in the wild now........ Will they still exist in 10 years? Other species too need saving. Some of these include whale sharks, hedgehogs, pandas, elephants and tigers. Will they too become the next dodo- everyone knows what it is, but nobody has ever or will ever see one? These species are crying out to us: SOS! Save Our Species!

I had never got up at the crack of dawn until then, and I had never know the mornings dewy bird-song filled beauty. It got me thinking, it must be this way in jungles and rainforests too. Everywhere with trees really. But if those trees are being cut down how can that morning dew effect the trees there? Where can all the animals live? I had seen the adverts from the WWF about habitat sizes decreasing and animals like the amur leopard dying out, but I had never really thought that much about it. I went on the website and found out there was less than 35 amur leopards alive and how many trees were being chopped down. I am now trying to help raise money for the WWF, the amur leopard mainly. After that whenever I see a beautiful forest or dewy plants and wildlife, I am never un-greatful.

This is a bit of an exception this Earth Story, because it is just a story. Unlike the other amazing things people have done and said on this page that is truly inspiring, I still feel like my stroy need to be here... I feel slightly out of place but this Earth means so much to me and so much to other people so here it goes. 14, I've already passed my English Language GCSE and during my free lesson I start to write a story. It is set in the future and it's about a boy in university who is having the time of his life and blah di blah di blah... That's not the important part: It was the atmoshpere, it was weird and the trees. They were bent and twisted, frail and white with branches that were not finger-like but... flattened out reaching upwards in a cresent moon shape, as if was reaching up for somthing it could not reach. It was dreadful, and to me someone who loves nature so much-a morbid sight. So the story goes on, it is really just abuot a boy with nightmares and a pretty crush who takes science and is learning about the different energy sources through out history and how the energy source of the year 3212 works. It is called Miosis Energy and it is clean and fresh, no pollution to the air at all; all the people of the world believed this, they truly thought they had saved the world. But if they looked around them, the trees were wrong, the rain never poured and the animals had dissapeared. 3212 was a stange place and the inhabitants thought it was fine. Well, my story went on and the boy met the spirits of the forest and sea's, they showed him the truth, how humans had corrupted the Earth and not saved it, they used and abused all the spirits and forced them down to their dwindling state, where they had no where to go but to hide in one graveyard of animals and tree's. And in all that death, the spirits decided to show him something so special and rare; what he saw was the blossoming world around us today, the brown bark, the green leaves and the blue sky-things we take for granted now. And what was sad in this Earth Story was that he truly thought he could bring it back, but that's not how the story goes... the humans of the future truly thought they had saved the world, they did in one way I guess... When the soil had come crumbling down, the dirty water flood in and rot had no mercy. Then, and only then had they tried to save ithe world But by then, it was too late.

Long time ago, i thought that i have no reason to live anymore, my full family is gone, everything is broken, outside and inside . And then, i don't remember well how and when it happens . I just remember one things, only one, that i have found the Earth (because i'm a girl so i imagine that Earth is a man) . He - the Earth - gives me a reason to live, is to love and try to protect him, he's my everything . It may seem strange, but my feeling is true, my desire to be connected to Earth is such strong that i, you totally can think that i'm crazy but i'm totally not, want to be lost in jungle alone, i run outside in the rain to feel the water gift of the Earth, i talk to the trees, animals,...everything that can help me feel close to Earth. I can't help crying when i see people hurt the Earth, sometime i really hate human, sometime i feel shame to be a human, i wish i wasn't human. But when i think over, i still want to be human, because only human can help the Earth, that's our right and responsibility. And if i have a chance, i will die for the Earth without thinking. Die for Earth, to me, is a pleasure . So, no matter what i do, there's only one reason - the Earth. Hope that one day i can tell the world about my love, about what i can do for this love. I will fight still the end. And...do you think that our Earth have a soul, maybe Gaia. I believe that. Earth and all living things strongly connect to each other in an endless circle of life. But our human being has lost that connect and we must find it back to continue living with our planet. Wish upon the star and human...that one day Earth won't be sick anymore and will happy again, he deserves of that.

Alot of Earths issues; can be changed and sustained, In our spiritual sleep...through connection.... Urban or Suburban!i It All Helps, in its own little way.... Whether Over or Under. It still amounts to the same thing. Sunshine or Rain!i Sin cere love, ( from the midland executive,xcodex.) :) I Believe!!...^

Cuando era pequeña, en mi pueblo hacía tanto frío que por las noches helaba y de los tejados pendían "chuzos de punta" que se descongelaban por la mañana, teníamos que tener cuidado al pasar por debajo cuando íbamos al colegio. A partir de cierta hora no se podía descolgar la ropa del tendedero:estaba congelada). No salía agua del grifo por las mañanas: estaba congelada. Nada de eso pasa ahora. Así de real es el cambio climático. Este año, en Navidad casi estábamos a 20º, no parecía Navidad. No parecía una Navidad como las que yo recuerdo. Mi pueblo se llama Cuevas del Campo. Desde allí se ve Sierra Nevada preciosa en invierno. Temo tanto por su futuro como por lo que está pasando en mi pueblo. Hagamos algo para ralentizar esto...

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