World Oceans Day takes us to the warm waters off Maui, home to this green sea turtle and many other species that rely on healthy oceans. The annual celebration, recognized by the UN, is an effort to raise awareness about ocean conservation with events around the world, including here in Hawaii. This year’s theme is preventing plastic pollution. Plastics pose a serious threat to marine animals, including sea turtles, which are known to ingest them and become seriously injured or killed. Here’s an easy way to help: Reduce, reuse, and recycle.
Green sea turtle on World Oceans Day
Today in History
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Land ho in New Zealand 250 years ago
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Fox kits
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Bungle Bungle Range in Purnululu National Park, Australia
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Celebrating Mexico in a Cultural Capital
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Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada
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Ringing in the new year at Teotihuacan
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Fallow deer, Bradgate Park, Leicestershire, England
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Ski touring in Austria
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Spring comes to the Diablo foothills
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Anybody out there?
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Cheese! We ll go somewhere where there s cheese!
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You ve never seen anything like this
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Mangrove Conservation Day
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Dolomites
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Halo around the sun
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Alaska moose
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World Teachers Day
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World Children s Day
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Mont-Saint-Michel
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Black History Month
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Dog days of summer
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Illuminated Uluru
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Andean cocks-of-the-rock, Ecuador
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Maybe we should be looking up
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Climb a tree for wild animals and plants
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A festival of lights in India
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Siblings that play together…
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Kjell Henriksen Observatory
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World Architecture Day
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Muskoxen in Dovre-Sunndalsfjella National Park, Norway