This audiobook tells about the establishment of the first Earth Day in 1970 by Gaylord Nelson, who saw the damaging effects of pollution on our world. The audiobook encourages the reader to take care of Earth and provides suggestions for doing so.
In 1987, a group of eight-year-old girls in California decided to plant a tree to help the environment. Then they decided to plant more trees and called their group the Tree Musketeers. As the group got older, they decided to find other children to continue their work. In 1997, they organized a campaign for 1 million children to plant 1 million trees around the country. They completed the task in four years. After this, each new group of Tree Musketeers helped the environment in different ways.
Students learn about manatees, including their physical characteristics, eating habits, and living environments. The book also discusses how humans are damaging manatees' habitats and threatening their existence. Specific human behaviors are highlighted as destructive, and the book also covers how humans can prevent the endangering of this species.
Tropical rain forests are the oldest kind of living ecosystem on Earth. Rain forests cover less that 2% of Earth's surface but are home to more than half of all the animal and plant species. Animals are active in the rain forest both night and day. Each has its own special way of living. Most of the rain forests have been destroyed in the last 50 years by people.
This book is about tamarins, which are monkeys that are native to Brazil in South America. They need the rain forests to survive, but people cut down trees for wood and cleared the land for farming. Tamarins weigh less than two pounds and are less than a foot long.
There are many varieties of tamarins, including the golden lion tamarin. Tamarins are being raised at the National Zoo in Washington, DC, to be released into the rainforest in Brazil. The goal is to reach 2,000 tamarins in the wild by 2025.
After nearly being driven to extinction, wolves are making a comeback. With the help of numerous people and legislation efforts, wolves are being reintroduced into certain parts of the country.
Highlights presents A Year on the Savannah written by Ellen Wettersten. A variety of animals that are native to the savannah in Africa are featured. Their physical characteristics, habits, and behaviors are presented. The changing seasons of this area of the world are also described month by month. In addition listeners get a look at life on the savannah, spotlighting the Masai people who have lived on the savannah in East Africa for centuries.
This book examines the consequences that an expanding human population has had on a number of animal species whose populations are shrinking. Captive breeding is presented as one way to save these endangered species.
Frogs Leo and Gus find some sticks. They hop over the sticks then cool off in the pond. Bev, a beaver, takes the sticks. Leo and Gus are mad. Bev chews the sticks to make more. She keeps some sticks and gives some to Leo and Gus.
Town Mouse visits her friend Country Mouse. Town Mouse finds that she likes her own home best. Then Country Mouse visits Town Mouse. Town Mouse finds that she likes her own home best. Town Mouse and Country Mouse decide they can still be friends despite being different.
