www.whales.org.za

whales

          The whale is the largest and most majestic animal to ever inhabit our planet. Originally a land dwelling four-legged creature that returned to the waters we all evolved from millions of years ago, they now populate the earth’s oceans. The oceans once teemed with these wonderful mammals that, like us, breath oxygen, give birth to live offspring and have a complex family- and social structure. But their numbers were decimated by humans for profit and many whale species were driven to the brink of extinction and are still in grave danger of vanishing forever.

            Despite an overwhelming majority vote amongst the Earth's population to protect the whales, there are still some nations that kill them for money. Help stop this senseless killing. Learn and educate yourself with facts about whales and begin to understand this majestic animal and how it shares the world we reside in.

Link: http://www.whales.org.za/

www.savenkeep.com

         Save n'Keep is a social bookmarking site that allows users to save, store, manage a web pages. Save n'Keep improves the quality of its results through the preferences and user votes.
          Save n'Keep save your favorite websites in a central database accessible from all computers and mobile devices.
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          Save n'Keep enables you to find the most interesting sites for each theme. With Save n'Keep you can also vote in addition to saving a resource and in this case the index of popularity will be increased even by those who visit a single page without being registered.

Link: http://www.savenkeep.com/

www.amphibianark.org

 

                   Amphibians are an important component of the global ecosystem, as indicators of environmental health and contributors to human health. They watched the dinosaurs come and go, but today almost half of them are themselves threatened with extinction. Addressing the amphibian extinction crisis represents the greatest species conservation challenge in the history of humanity.

                   The global conservation community has formulated a response in the Amphibian Conservation Action Plan, and an integral part of that response is the Amphibian Ark (AArk), in which select species that would otherwise go extinct will be maintained in captivity until they can be secured in the wild. Without immediate captive management as a stopgap component of an integrated conservation effort, hundreds of species could become extinct.

                  The AArk is a joint effort of three principal partners: the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA), the IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG), and the IUCN/SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (ASG).

                   Its vision is the world’s amphibians safe in nature, and its mission is ensuring the global survival of amphibians, focusing on those that cannot currently be safeguarded in nature.

Link: http://www.amphibianark.org/