Healthy rainbow!

Red is for strawberries, juicy and sweet.
Orange is for mandarins, delicious and refreshing.
Yellow is for lemons, sour but yummy in a drink.
Green is for limes, bitter, but sweet squeezed on crepes.
Blue is for blueberries, small with a lot of flavour.
Purple is for eggplant, quite flavourless, but still nice.
Pink is for guavas, perfect for a hot day.

Why Littering is an Environmental Concern?

What is littering? Littering is when people drop their rubbish anywhere they like and forget about what it does to the environment. Littering happens all over the world and is causing things like plants and animals dying.

People go to the beach every day and I can just about guarantee that at least half of them will leave some rubbish behind. This rubbish is then washed way out into the sea. Once it’s out there it starts to pollute the water and kill the sea life. The result of polluted water will be sick fish. Diseases start to spread around the food chain as one healthy fish eats another very sick fish. This doesn’t just happen to fish, it also happens to the plants and weeds too. Some sea creatures need plants to survive.

Another common case of littering is people throwing their trash out the window as they are driving along. This could land just about anywhere. Normally it would land on the side of the road and a bird comes along, takes a bite and chokes to death. If it lands in a paddock the same thing could happen to a cow or even a horse.The consequence of this will be a lot of grass that farmers can’t get rid of because over the years all their cows have been dying from eating rubbish.

To stop people littering, we could increase the amount of rubbish bins not only in common places but down streets that not many people drive or walk down. Of course rubbish bins won’t help unless people actually cooperate and put their rubbish in them. Another way we could help is by decreasing the amount of plastic food packaging and buying lunch boxes that don’t require you to wrap all your food in glad wrap. We need to get at least half of the people in this world to stop littering.

As a result of everybody stopping littering and putting their rubbish in the bin, pollution will start to stop and then global warming will start to stop, which will save a lot of animals and creatures, and if we all cooperate and stop littering forever our world will simply be more tidy, happy and safe for both animals and humans.

Why Skunks Stink?

Once upon a time, at least a hundred years back, there lived a skunk. This skunk was called Lola. Lola lived in the forest with all the other small and harmless animals. Life would have been perfect if it weren't for Frank. Frank was a fox. He lived in his den which was located at the foot of a mountain not very far away from Lola’s home. Every night Frank came out of his den and hunted down one of Lola’s many friends. Frank would eat anything from skunks to rabbits, from rabbits to birds. Over the years the creature population had gone down from one hundred to fifty. Frank was very greedy and would eat more than one animal each night if possible. Lola considered herself very lucky to be alive.

During the time Frank was out hunting Lola sat in her home trembling as did her bush mates, the rabbit and squirrel she shared her home with. They sat there till morning and didn't ever get a second of sleep for they were afraid that Frank would find them. They were so tired that they napped nearly all day except for meals. Lola always dreamed in her sleep and her dreams were usually about her somehow stopping Frank eating all her friends. She knew this would never happen so she didn't try.

One day Lola was out collecting berries. She was extremely tired, for today she hadn't been able to get to sleep, and she had no idea why. Suddenly her eyelids began to feel droopy until her eyes were closed completely. She wobbled on one foot before falling backwards into a deep sleep. She drifted off into a dream. Heroically she was fighting Frank. She was standing up to him, telling him to either leave the forest or stop eating her friends. Then it stopped. She was so tired she couldn't even dream anymore.

Paws padded along the leafy forest floor. Lola’s nose twitched and her eyes fluttered open. She peered up through the trees at the moon. She turned to run home but it was too late. There ,towering over her, stood Frank. Snarling and baring his teeth he slowly walked forward until his front paws were nearly touching Lola’s. Lola laughed nervously hoping Frank would let her go but he just growled. A low growl from somewhere inside Lola answered back to Frank and he looked very surprised. Lola realized it was her stomach and not wanting to die hungry she took a bite of a berry.

Lola turned around to vomit. Whatever she’d eaten it definitely wasn't a berry. Lola jumped. She’d expected to vomit but instead it came out her tail end in the form of a very stinky gas. This conveniently went straight up Frank’s nostrils causing him to vomit and then run off home. Lola just stood there shocked. What had just happened? How did she do that? She watched a green insect crawl up a tree and suddenly an idea popped into her head. Instead of a berry she had eaten a stink bug and she’d defeated Frank, and gained some self defense.

Since then it’s always been that, year after year, generation after generation skunks have always had there stink.

Abseiling

I can smell the dampness of the bush floor mixed with the sound of excited chatter. Trees and ferns don’t seem to match the sight of the clear lake. Shaky fingers tighten my harness, and I nervously walk towards the instructor waiting for me. My stomach churns. He fixes the anchor to my harness and then explains what to do. I lean back into thin air and take one tiny step down. Beads of sweat gather on my forehead. Fear catches in my throat. My eyes widen with terror, as I take another step down. My mind is blank, but somehow I keep going. “One foot after the other” I say to myself. As I spread my trembling feet apart, the feeling of fear starts to melt away, and I begin to grow confident.

“Almost half way there” the instructor cry's. Battling the sun's blinding rays, I peer upwards. A look of shock and astonishment spreads across my pale face. My eyes change directions, so I can see the bottom. There's still at least fifteen meters to go. My feet slide down, and I frantically try to regain my footing. Thankfully we only get to do this once. The harness begins to hurt my legs causing the butterflies to return. Aching heels somehow move down the cliff face. My neck aches like I've been looking upwards since the day I was born. I anxiously peer down to find I’m almost done. I let out the sigh of relief I've been holding for what feels like forever. Toes hit the ground first, then the pain seems to shoot out of my legs. Thank goodness that’s over.