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Tag: Conservation

Invite Hedgehogs Into Your Garden

Posted on February 1, 2022February 10, 2022 by Malu

Tomorrow, 02.02. is Hedgehog Day! So lets celebrate and make life nicer for them. What About Hedgehogs? Hedgehogs are small mammals with short little legs, cute, wet noses, beady eyes, tiny little sharp teeth, and a back covered in spines which they can curl up into for protection, kind of like a draw string bag….

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Nature Care Challenge | December 2021: Recycle Your Phone

Posted on December 1, 2021February 1, 2022 by Malu

Take a look in that junk drawer of yours. Any old phones in there? If you are an average westerner, chances are, there are about 4 such devices in there. You might still have that old indestructible one from the late 90’s, and it still works! There might be the smartphone with the broken screen,…

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Nature Care Challenge | October 2021: Make a Shelter for Small Animals.

Posted on October 1, 2021March 2, 2022 by Malu

Here in Europe, winter is sending polite little reminders of it coming to see us soon-ish. The trees are still green but the nights are getting pretty cold already. Soon the leaves will be falling and covering everything, protecting the micro life below from the harshest frost (Little nudge not to rake leaves unless necessary)….

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Cricetus cricetus (European Hamster)

Posted on September 18, 2021October 18, 2021 by Malu

Hello Lovelies!I’m back! It was a long summer break from blogging but oh so busy with hamster sex and hamster babies! So here is my promised post about these weird creatures science calls Cricetus cricetus and I call beautiful-mini-bear-ninjas. At first glimpse they are cute, on second look they are terrifying and once you get…

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No, this blog is not dead! Just hibernating.

Posted on June 13, 2021January 23, 2023 by Malu

Yes I know! Its been too long since my last post and I feel really guilty. It’s just that I am so busy! What could she possibly be doing that takes up that much time? She’s breeding hamsters. What? Yes, she got a job as a conservation breeder for the European hamster (Cricetus cricetus). But…

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You Might Have a New Favourite Animal After Reading This

Posted on February 20, 2021October 18, 2021 by Malu

Hip hip hooraay! Its World Pangolin Day! Celebrated every 3rd Saturday in February, today is the 10th World Pangolin Day! What do you do on World Pangolin Day? You spread awareness about pangolins. Whats so special about pangolins? They look like a cross between an anteater and a pine cone! They are four legged creatures…

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Nature Care Challenge | October 2020: Get Political

Posted on October 10, 2020October 18, 2021 by Malu

Ugh! I had a technical fail and never realized this Post didn’t upload when I told it to, just before hastily closing my laptop. So this one is a little belated. But on the plus side, now I can add pictures of my latest protest adventures during a pandemic. Times are crazy and the destruction…

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Great News for Pangolins!!!

Posted on June 17, 2020April 18, 2021 by Malu

I just got the best news on my e-mail feed! China has taken pangolin scales off their list of approved ingredients for traditional medicine. I love pangolins! They are right up there in my top 3 favourite weirdos. They are little termite eating creatures covered in scales from head to toe, with long sticky tongues…

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Nature Care Challenge | June 2020: Never Buy Bottled Water Ever Again.

Posted on June 1, 2020April 18, 2021 by Malu

Guys, lets just cut the excuses. There is no reason to buy bottled water. The world currently produces approximately 1 million plastic bottles per minute. Only a fraction ever make it into recycling and to make it worse, recycling is mostly a myth. You see, while plastic can be recycled, it can never be recycled…

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Nature Care Challenge | January 2020: Better Eating for the Planet and Your Body

Posted on January 1, 2020April 18, 2021 by Malu

Happy New Year!! Let it be a weird and wonderful year and most of all, let this year be big for the fight against climate change! 2020 we rise up! Also happy 1st of January everyone, it is time for another sustainability challenge. This one was actually requested by a friend of mine who loves…

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My name is Malu. I am a conservation-ecologist currently living in Germany. I’ve always been wild about the outdoors and can spend hours looking at an insect labouring away at its daily challenges, or a bird building its nest, or … there’s just so much amazing stuff happening out there! I’m really glad you’ve made it onto this page so I can share my joy with you.

Monthly Challenges

We only have about 6 to 8 years left to turn this environmental mess of a ship around. So much has to happen politically, but the people also need to change habits and start to appreciate our environment more. So every 1st of the month I post a nature care challenge with environmentally friendly lifestyle choices of habits for you to try for 30 days and, if you like, let it stick with you for longer, maybe even for life.

Lots of little droplets make up the largest ocean.

Are you absolutely unable to do the current challenge? Or maybe you are underwhelmed with the challenge and want an extra one? Check out the previous challenges to see if there is something you would like to try.

The challenges  make up the major part in the flow of posts here, so they are easy to find. But if you want to get a good overview of the challenges set so far, simply follow the link below.

Do you want to set next month’s sustainability challenge?

Contact me and pitch your challenge to me. It might be up next month. You can either write the whole challenge, and why we should do it, or just give me an idea for something to look into.

All Monthly Challenges
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