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EARTH DAY

EARTH DAY. To celebrate Earth Day, the students of IES Villalba Hervás did a series of activities related to the environment and its preservation. First, some groups created power-point presentations about the different animals in danger of extinctions both in the Canary Islands and in Spain.

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EARTH DAY

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  1. EARTH DAY To celebrate Earth Day, the students of IES VillalbaHervás did a series of activities related to the environment and its preservation.

  2. First, some groups created power-point presentations about the different animals in danger of extinctions both in the Canary Islands and in Spain.

  3. Endangeredspecies in TheCanaryIslands

  4. Endangeredspecies • GiantCanaryLizard • Alimoche • CanarianHoubara • Blue Chaffinch

  5. Blue Chaffinch Blue chaffinch is an endemic Canarian species. It is also considered along with The Drago, a symbol of the island of Tenerife.

  6. Giant Canary Lizards are endangered although their population is increasing or remains stable in all the islands except in La Palma GiantCanaryLizard

  7. Alimoche ThisisthesmallestEuropeanvulture (about 150 centimeters)

  8. CanarianHoubara TheHoubara, withits 1,70 centimetreswingspan, isthelargestbirdthatnests in theCanaries.

  9. Endangeredspecies in Spain

  10. NationalEndagered Species

  11. IberianLynx Location: Andalucia, Montes of Toledo and Portugal.

  12. Location: Centre of theIberianPeninsula. There are only 300 couples. Imperial Eagle

  13. Location: Theforest of theIberianPeninsula. There are only 80 bears in Spain. Grizzly Bear

  14. Another power-point presentation dealt with the negative influence of humans in different natural habitats

  15. human BEINGS as a problemforanimals

  16. Light pollution

  17. • Seabirds: The light emitted from gas flares of oil rigs attract birds that spin in circles around the flame to death.

  18. migrations of birds: Many birds migrate at night and die DUE TO collisions between themSELVES, AGAINST objects or buildings. THEY Become disoriented because many birds are guided by the light emitted by stars.

  19. • Turtles After laying eggs on the beaches, many of them take the wrong path, attracted by the lights of the cities and there die trampled

  20. insects With insects occurs what is called "flight to light", this can produce three different effects: 1.-Captivity: When the insect collides directly with the light source or revolves around it to death . 2. - Vacuum Effect: Insects attracted leave their habitat lighting . 3. - Barrier effect: Artificial light does not allow long distance movements of insects.

  21. • songbirds: Birds sing late into the night, disoriented by the high light pollution.

  22. • Humans: • the light change our circadian rhythm, we also need darkness, as it can affect our quality of life, our relationships and our eating habits...

  23. Deforestation • Abouthalf of theworld original forestshadbeendestroyedby 2011 • The principal areasaffected are: South America(Amazonas) and Southern Asia

  24. Some students worked in the school gardens planting both vegetables and flowers. Besides, some dragon trees were planted in the school gardens as well.

  25. School vegetable garden

  26. Plantingdragontrees

  27. With these activities we would like to show our concern for the environment. We believe that these actions can act as a symbol of the necessity to both preserve and look after our planet.

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