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  1. Does your search engine plant trees when you search for stuff online?

    If not, please take a look at Ecosia.org. 

    It's a rather amazing search engine because every time you search you can help plant a tree and it won't cost you anything!  On average it takes 45 searches to plant a tree but these days that won't take long to add up!

    Ecosia's goal is to plant one billion trees and they've just hit the 40 million tree mark - so 40 million trees have been planted as a result of people using their search engine to search for stuff online.

     

    Not only that, but you can buy t-shirts - and they'll plant 20 trees for every t-shirt you buy.  I bought one and I love the quality and feel of it - and best of all, I know my purchase is helping to plant trees :-) 

    So take a look at Ecosia and plant trees as you search! 

  2. It's that time of year again.  Fireworks.

    Actually, fireworks I think cause more of a problem around the year than they used to.  My dog doesn't mind them - but I really worry for those animals who are terrified of them, and what mindless idiots out there will do with fireworks for "fun" to cause misery and bring about fear in animals and people.

    So the RSPCA has a petition you can sign calling on the Office for Product Safety and Standards to urgently review firework regulations, e.g. restrictin them to certain dates and only selling private use fireworks with a maximum noise level of 97 decibels.

    Please sign this petition and let's minimise the distress fireworks cause to animals and people everywhere.

    The RSPCA are calling on people to sign this petition

     

    The RSPCA also has information on keeping pets safe and reducing stress for pets.  

     

  3. World Animal Day takes place every year on 4th October.   It’s a chance for each and everyone of us to pledge to make a difference to animals around the world, whether we do this for locals or animals on the other side of the world.

    The mission of the day is “To Raise the status of animals in order to improve welfare standards around the globe”. 

    Help all creatures great and small

    The day unites the animal welfare movement, and celebrated in different ways around the world.

    There are lots of events going on – you can search them out or add your own.  But there’s also a chance to pledge to make a difference.

    Pledge to make a difference to animals with many other animal lovers around the world

    And crucially, there’s a Pledge Board where you can publicly make a pledge to make a difference to animals. 

    Read the pledges and you’ll see that some people pledge to make to help a specific species e.g. horses or work on an issue e.g. strays or vow to do something about their lifestyle e.g. going vegan or vegetarian or eating less meat.  There are all sorts of pledges listed for all sorts of animals.

    Every action makes a difference

    The Pledge Board gives us all a chance to reflect on and state how we want to make a difference.  I started this website because I wanted to make a difference to help animals and hopefully make it easier for people to find very little ways or larger ways to get involved.  I think every single action – however large or small – makes a difference.

    Join everyone pledging for animals

    One of the reasons for this is that if you take one action, you feel good about it and it usually propels people into wanting to take another and another and another.  Before you know it, quite a few actions have built up. 

    So have a think about what you would write on the Pledge Board and see what you can do to carry it through.  Every action makes a difference. 

    Visit World Animal Day's website