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Reduce Plastics in Order to Save Marine Life

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First of all, it's gross (find your own planet to dump your trash on), but it's also dangerous for animals. Marine life. There are so many fronts on the war for animal rights (and I'm increasingly believing that "war" is the right word for it) and often times it's hard to know what to do. And who ingests them?

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Marine Life Top of CITES Meeting Agenda

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The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or Cites that opened in the Qatari capital on Saturday will be discussing 42 proposals during the next two weeks. Tags: australia CITES marine life marine animals Japan. Oh look, more meetings. From Al Jazeera.

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Learning more?

Reddit Animals

I would specifically want advice on what sites to go on or maybe even which videos or movies I can watch that can teach me more about animals. I enjoy anything from marine life, reptiles, insects, anything. I just want to learn about specific species and their habitat and how they operate etc.

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Saving Marine Animals that Are NOT Cute

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We hear about the problem with charismatic land species. It's those species that either have a powerful personality or a cute face that endear people to them and garner news attention. It's easier to motivate people to save them as opposed to other species that are vital, but either boring or ugly. So what happens to them?

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Christian Science Monitor Calls for Endangered Species Hour

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I like this opinion piece from the Christian Science Monitor which calls for an "Endangered Species Hour." It's in response to the pathetic CITES conference which basically screwed marine animal protection. But jobs that depend on harvesting endangered species will quickly disappear if those species are not protected.

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Ocean Advocacy and Animal Rights

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I understand that they are trying to encourage people to eat fish and other marine life that are not part of a collapsing fishery. The purpose is to protect ocean species as a whole. I'm not sure how this fits into my support of animal rights though. Tags: oceans marine animals. But I may not find one.

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Good News About Blue Whales

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The endangered whales, possibly the largest animals ever to live on Earth, have yet to recover from the worldwide slaughter that eliminated 99 percent of their number, according to the American Cetacean Society. The hunting peaked in 1931 with more than 29,000 animals killed in one season.

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