🐋A single great whale can store around 33 tonnes of CO₂ over its lifetime.
- IUCN
🐘Elephants can recognise themselves in a mirror - a rare marker of self-awareness.- PNAS
🐝One in three bites of food we eat depends on pollinators.- FAO
🐢A sea turtle’s sex is set by nest temperature - warmer sand yields more females.- NOAA
🦈Sharks have existed for around 450 million years - older than trees.- National Geographic
🌊Octopuses have three hearts and blue, copper-based blood.- NOAA
🐟Coral reefs cover under 1% of the ocean floor but support ~25% of marine species.- NOAA
🐅India’s wild tiger population has more than doubled since 2006.- WWF
🐺Returning wolves to Yellowstone helped restore riverbanks and biodiversity.- NPS
🦜North America has lost roughly 3 billion breeding birds since 1970.- Cornell Lab
🌊The ocean produces much of the oxygen we breathe, via tiny plankton.- NOAA
🦍Gorillas share around 98% of their DNA with humans.- WCS
🌳A single oak tree can support over 2,000 species of birds, insects, fungi and mammals.- The Wildlife Trusts
🌿Hedgehogs can travel up to 2 km in a single night looking for food and mates.- People's Trust for Endangered Species
🦇Bats eat thousands of insects an hour - natural, free pest control for farms and gardens.- Bat Conservation International
🌾Beavers are ecosystem engineers: their dams create wetlands that boost biodiversity and reduce flooding.- IUCN
🦜Swifts can stay airborne for up to 10 months without landing - eating and even sleeping on the wing.- RSPB
🐻❄️A polar bear's fur is not white - each hair is a hollow, see-through tube, and the skin underneath is black.- Polar Bears International
🐻❄️Polar bear numbers recovered after nations agreed in 1973 to end unregulated hunting.- IUCN
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