Eco-Tourism is becoming big in Mexico. Delfiniti

, attracts hundreds of visitors each week to spend an hour swimming with, playing with, feeding, and getting to know dolphins. In Mexico and California, people have also realized that whales are worth more alive than dead. Whale watching tours make more money than whaling ships could – and the apparently sentient whales like to ‘hang out’ with the people in the whale watching ships. They know the people aren’t predators; they don’t try to capsize the ships.

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Why did the salamander cross the road?

To get to it’s habitat on the other side.

Gerald and Buff Corsi © 1999 California Academy of Sciences,Manzanita Image Project

Environmentalists in California help endangered Tiger Salamanders cross the road that divides their habitat by catching them, picking them up, and carrying them across the street. Why not lay pipes under the roads for the salamanders to cross thru? and then induce them to enter the channels by something that smells good or tastes good? The same for turtles, and other things that go ‘squish’ under cars in the night.

Photo: © David Rosen/Wildside Photography