Today we had a workshop from the Marine Conservation Society who are campaigning for a “deposit buyback” scheme for all plastic, glass and tin bottles/cans.

They taught us all about leather back turtles, including what they eat, where they live, how they live and how our waste effects them.

We are going to take part in the scheme to try to persuade the Scottish government to introduce a deposit buyback scheme to help reduce the amount of waste that ends up in the ocean.

http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx?SearchType=Advance&Keyword=deposit+return&ExactPhrase=True&DateTo=03%2F03%2F2017+23%3A59%3A59&SortBy=DateSubmitted&Answers=All&SearchFor=All&ResultsPerPage=10&MAQA_Search_gvResultsChangePage=1

 

http://www.mcsuk.org/what_we_do/Wildlife+protection/Report+wildlife+sightings

 

https://www.mcsuk.org/sightings/map/bottlesighting.php

If you would like to see some turtles in action, check out this video

As part of our homework, we have been researching news stories and sharing them with the class. Here are a couple of examples (sorry, Erin, your one didn’t record properly)

Anyone still to do their homework, here is an interesting news article you could look at!

http://www.gov.scot/Topics/farmingrural/Agriculture/animal-welfare/bee/News/AsianHornet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet