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Welcome to A-Z Animals, an online animal encyclopedia where you can learn about all your favourite animals, and even some you may have never heard of!
 

Random Animals

Quail

Quail

Inhabits woodland and forest areas worldwide!
Koala

Koala

Spends up to 80% of the time sleeping or resting!
Dormouse

Dormouse

Found in Europe, Africa and Asia!
Stoat

Stoat

Average adults weigh about 200 grams!
Betty the Butterfly's Blog

Betty the Butterfly's Blog

Growing Your Own Food In January

Thu 26th January 2012 (0 comments)



Despite the cold and bitter months of winter, there are a number of jobs to start doing in the vegetable garden to ensure that you're home-grown veg supply is bigger and better than the year before (although a lot of the bits and pieces to done in January are very much maintenance related, they are important to ensure a successful garden).

To begin with, if there is still a supply of winter vegetables in your plot they should be covered with a dense layer of straw to protect them from frost. Any remaining empty beds should be raked over, mulching the leaf-mould in from last year to ensure that the soil has the best possible nutrients to grow your crops in later on.

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Palm Oil Campaign

Palm Oil Campaign

Palm oil plantations have been popping up rapidly over recent years, but many of them are illegally set-up in natural forest and peat-land and are completely unregulated. Thousands of acres of both primary and secondary forest that are either vital to conservation or the native people are being cleared every year. The trade is thought to now account for up to 10% of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions.
 
This boom has happened mainly over the last 10 years and has made palm oil the most used edible oil today. It is found in thousands of products from chocolate and biscuits to soap and lipstick, but many companies actually have no idea where their palm oil even comes from. Under current European legislation, companies do not have to state if they have used palm oil in their products, instead it can be labelled as vegetable oil!
 
We have the right to know what is in the products that we use and consume! Help us to change this...
 
Save the rainforest. Save the orang-utan. Save the world.
 

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Vulture
Today Bernie the Bear wants to show you the Vulture.
 
There are 30 different species worldwide!
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