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FIGHT POLLUTION—
SAVE ANIMALS!

African
Penguin
WHERE THEY LIVE:
Coast of southern Africa
WHY THEY NEED HELP: Oil
leaked accidentally into the
8 FISH RESPONSIBLY ocean can burn penguins’
skin, which makes swimming
If you go fishing, don’t leave nets or lines in the water. difficult. The oil can also
poison them.
Animals can become entangled in the trash.
9 10 Eastern

PESTFRIENDS STUFFED WITH STUFF SpottedSkunk
WHERE THEY LIVE:
Ask your parents to Items shipped to your home often come wrapped Central and southeastern
buy food and clothes in plastic packaging; toys bought at the store are United States
that are made with- covered in it. Think about what can be bought WHY THEY NEED HELP:
out pesticides— secondhand, what can be shared, and what doesn’t Skunks can get their heads
chemicals sprayed need to be purchased at all. trapped in trashsuchas
on crops to kill bad yogurtcontainers.
Pesticides also can 11 GARBAGECLUB
bugs. The problem?
kill critters like Form a club in your classroom to reduce Laysan
bees that are your waste at school.Monitor what’s thrown Albatross
eco-friendly. away each week,and think about ways to cut WHERE THEY LIVE:
down on those items. Islands of the Pacific Ocean
12 WHY THEY NEED HELP:
These birds—like many
DO-GOODGOODIEBAG sea animals— mistake
Don’t fill your birthday goodie bags with plastic yo-yos plastic for food.
and other trinkets for your friends.Instead,give them
homemade treats or coupons to a local bakery.
Rusty Patched
About Bumblebee
95 percent of WHERE THEY LIVE: Eastern
food that could be
and upper midwestern
composted(or
United States
naturally broken
WHY THEY NEED HELP:
down)winds up
in landfills. Bees absorb toxins from
pesticides through their
exoskeletons. Toxins can also
be in the nectar and pollen
that the bees eat.
Irrawaddy
Dolphin
13 WHERE THEY LIVE: Coastal
and fresh waters in
STRAWSENSE southeastern Asia
Experts estimate that Americans use about 500 million WHY THEY NEED HELP:
plastic straws a day,and they’re one of the top 10 trash These dolphins can drown
items found during ocean cleanups.If you must use a when they become entangled
straw,find a reusable metal straw or a paper version.
in fishing nets.
SERGEY URYADNIKOV / SHUTTERSTOCK (PENGUIN); © THOMAS LAZAR / NATURE PICTURE
LIBRARY (SKUNK); JARED HOBBS / GETTY IMAGES (ALBATROSS); © CLAY BOLT / MINDEN
PICTURES (BUMBLEBEE); © ROLAND SEITRE / MINDEN PICTURES (IRRAWADDY DOLPHIN) APRIL 2018 • NAT GEO KIDS 21