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Friday, August 15, 2014

My paper crane insperation

Hi. So today I thought that instead of discussing about an endangered animal I have decided to go slightly personal about how I became interested in endangered animals.So I hope you enjoy my anecdote.
When I was really young my parents have influenced me a lot by giving me little stuffed animals and then when I got older I was given a book full of extinct. I was reading through it and realized I had no idea that all of these animals were extinct. I then looked up endangered animals and soon fell in love with a lot of the animals that were endangered.After that I decided that I really wanted to do something to help.

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I finally found my answer. It was when my teacher read us the book: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. What the book is about is a girl who has come down with leukemia. She spent her time in the hospital for a long time and had almost no visitors. Finally when she had her first friend come visit her, she brought a little surprise. What her friend told her was that if she made 1,000 paper cranes then she could make one wish then that wish would come true. Sadako really wanted to cure her leukemia so she decided to get started.
But I don't want to spoil the story and that isn't even my anecdote. But after reading that book I really wanted to to something similar like Sadako. But instead of keeping them I wanted to sell them. I started when I was in 3rd grade and I still am trying to keep that up. I really want to get to 1,000 and then I plan to sell them all,and with all the money I plan to give it to a rescue center or animal shelter.

I think that this book is a really inspiring story, and this is what inspired me to research more about extinct and endangered animals.

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Top 10

Top 10 of what we should do to help the endangered animals

Throw away our garbage in the garbage can not on the ground. This will help because if you throw it on the ground, an animal may mistake it for food and they can become very ill.
If you are on a beach pick up after yourself because if you don't a seagull or other animal can eat it as food.
Don't feed wild animals food
Don't plan on poaching any animals
Try to avoid using plastic because if the plastic gets out in the ocean a sea animal can get tangled and strangled in it and may suffocate to death.
Help your community center. See if you can volunteer at the beach.
Try to raise money to donate to local shelter. This way they can buy food or spend it in any way to help the animals.
Volunteer at a local animal shelter. This way you can have fun while keeping an animal entertained. If you don't some animals will get sick and die of loneliness.
Get involved. If you get involved it will really show that you are trying to help the world.
HAVE FUN while learning and helping! Make sure that if you do decided to help out at a volunteer shelter or community make sure you do something that you will enjoy.

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Pangelion

Endangered Animal #8

Pangolin

For this post I want to express my feelings towards the poor Pangolin. There are 8 different types of species of a pangolin. All but 2 are expressed by ICUN as threatened to extinct. The remaining 2 are labeled as critically endangered.

1st I'm going to discuss how the pangolin is built. I has large, hard, and overlapping scales. The scales will start of soft but as the pangolin grows up they will soon harden the scales are made of of the material of a human fingernail! The pangolin's body can be compared to a pine cone or a artichoke. This is part of its defence. When threatened the pangolin will curl up in a ball and with its overlapping scales it will tend to look like a pine cone. The scales are sharp as well so it will also provide extra good defense.
Cute Pangolion

http://champagnewhisky.com/2014/02/15/the-happy-pangolin/

Another thing I would like to point out is that a pangolin is much like a skunk! You might not believe me but they can spray a noxious-smelling acid from the glands close to the anus. This gives some proof that they are close to the skunk. The Pangolin have short legs and amazing sharp claws in which they will use for burrowing into termite or ant mounds.

Now I would like to discuss why they are on my endangered list. If you look at the picture to the left of the screen that I am about to insert you will see a shape that looks sort of like a rat. That is a pangolin. They will be killed then put in soup especially in China. Pangolin soup is much wanted in China because the chinese think of them as a delicacy. Some chinese will also use the scales as part of medicine as well they are also wanted because of their scales. People will use their scales and make clothes out of them like this coat here.

This I believe is a serious issue so I'm glad that you are all aware of this.

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Inspired By.....

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Today I am going to blog about how today I went on a little adventure. The adventure I went on was to get inspired by nature. Today I went on a "Field Trip" to the Mission and to Delores Park. After that I went to Bi-Rite to get ice-cream. The point of the Field Trip was to take pictures for this blog so after this you will be able to check it out. But first I would like to talk to you all about thee whole experience and what it was like.
To start of with we had to leave the JCC building. After that we walked a little ways down to Fillmore street where we waited for the #22 bus. We took the bus down to the Mission then got off and walked to Delores Park. The last time I was at Delores was about a year ago and I just want to say tat if you haven't been there or if yo are a tourist then that is definitely one amazing place for you to check out if you are hanging out in San Francisco.

Now I am going to discuss Delores Park. Delores Park is basically a big park where you can bring you dogs and little kids. They have a big grassy hill for kids to run around and to roll down the grass hill and perfect for dogs to play and do stuff. Next to the grassy hill you have a big play ground with a chair-swing, regular swings and swings for little toddlers. The you have a big twisty slide along with a bid regular flat slide. Last thing there is you have a really nice section for the little toddlers. You have some sand to play in, a xylophone and other little goodies.

After that we went to Bi-Rite to get ice-cream. Everyone got a single scoop and I got mint-chocolate chip. Let me just say that in mint chocolate chip you have the most amount of chocolate chips I have ever seen.

Coffee Toffee Ice-cream Cake

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Over all I think that going on this

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Extinct

Have you ever seen this animal? Probably not. Why? Because this is a Jamaica Giant Galliwasp who is sadly extinct. Why did I insert an extinct animal? because if you really think about it. This animals is really amazing. But sadly we can't see it in action because it went extint. But if the whole world decided to taek more care about

Jamaica Giant Galliwasp

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