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In Baltimore, Maryland, it's illegal to take a lion to the movies.
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Earth Day is celebrated in more than 175 countries.
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After Christmas and Halloween, Earth Day is the largest celebrated holiday in schools.
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Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to watch TV for three hours –the equivalent of a half gallon of gasoline.
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More than 20 million Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day – 133 square miles of tinfoil. All that foil is recyclable.
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The patron Saint of ecologists (and animals) is St. Francis.
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The Peace Bell, made from coins donated by school-children to further peace on our planet, is rang every Earth Day at the United Nations.
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More than 100 billion plastic bags are thrown away each year in the U.S., the equivalent of dumping 12 million barrels of oil.
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More than 1 million birds and 100,000 marine mammals and sea turtles die each year from plastic bags waste.
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If all U.S. households installed water-efficient appliances, we would save more than 3 trillion gallons of water and more than $18 billion per year.
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Plastic doesn’t biodegrade so it can persist for centuries. All the plastic that has ever been made on earth is still around and will exist long after we’re gone.
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In 2007, 56 percent of the paper consumed in the U.S. was recovered for recycling — an all-time high. That’s nearly 360 pounds of paper for each man, woman, and child.
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In today's economic environment, it is clear that although wildlife investment may decline in the short term as the focus moves from a sustaining mode to a survival mode of operations for most conservation organizations, this re-evaluation and change is long awaited. Using technology has become a key factor in making this transformation successful.


