Click on a link and sponsors will donate to that cause. Links to preserve rain forests; save baby seals, dolphins, whales, sea otters and turtles; also save tigers, jaguars, snow leopards, chimps and other primates; sponsor 14 children a month, stop violence against women, and more.
An 'on-line elementary school classroom with lessons in geography, biology, language arts, and early childhood activities.' Includes craft projects and several illustrated dictionaries in English, French, Spanish, German or Portuguese (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
Background about the impact of the whaling industry on whale populations and on the health of the oceans. Includes links to news on topics such Iceland's resumption of commercial whaling activities in 2006 (after a 17-year hiatus), and activities of the International Whaling Commission (IWC).. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
Discusses the traditional shipboard pastime of 19th-century mariners of carving 'the hard byproducts of the whale fishery itself -- sperm whale ivory, walrus ivory, baleen (erroneously called whalebone), and skeletal whale bone.'. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
