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Save the Whales
Aluminum Narwhals Team 3128 supports savethewhales.org and their effort in the preservation of all whales and their environment.

Green Tips

Team Aluminum Narwhals has compiled a list of tips to help you go green by reducing waste, reusing materials and recycling when possible.

  • Walk, bike, and carpool. Support alternative transportation and drive less.
  • Replace your light bulbs with Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) Bulbs.
  • Only use nontoxic household cleaners.
  • Don’t use pesticides. Most pesticides create some risk of harm to humans, animals, and the environment.
  • Buy locally grown and produced food. Buy organic food when available.
  • Recycle your aluminum, glass, plastic products, ink cartridges, batteries, newspapers and mixed paper.
  • Use less paper: go electronic!
  • Don’t buy plastic bottles of water.  Use filtered water.
  • Avoid using plastic bags when shopping.
  • Practice smart landscaping. Plant native flowers and trees in your backyard.
  • Do not buy new items made from gold. Gold mining is one of the most damaging industries to the environment by destroying rainforest, polluting rivers with cyanide and mercury, and in some cases displacing indigenous people.

Saving Marine Life Everyday

Our team hopes to encourage others to not only go green, but to go blue! Think about our aquatic friends by following these tips on how you can save marine life everyday.

  1. Volunteer with local community groups to stencil storm drains, Adopt a Beach, or monitor the water quality of local watersheds. Organize your classroom, school club, or organization to clean litter from rivers, creeks, estuaries, and beaches. Did you know? Storm water pollution (urban runoff) is the leading cause of water pollution nationwide. Pollutants such as motor oil, antifreeze, detergents, litter, paint, pesticides, pet waste, and copper (from brake pads) are flushed off streets and into storm drains which lead straight to rivers, creeks, and the oceans.
  2. Participate in Save The Whales’ letter writing campaigns with your classroom, club, or church group. Invite friends over for a “letter writing” party. Print letters from Save The Whales “Action Alert” section under the Take Action. One letter from an individual to a government official represents the opinion of hundreds of people. Letters are powerful tools of influence.
  3. Cut up plastic six-pack rings before recycling or disposing them in the garbage. Thousands of birds, fish, and other marine creatures die needlessly from entanglement.
  4. Pick up trash while walking in your neighborhoods. Participate in National Coastal Clean Up Day (September) www.coastforyou.org to prevent pollution in watersheds and storm drains. Did you know that? One of the most common sources of beach pollution is cigarette butts. They can take up to seven years to breakdown. Last year, over one million cigarette butts were removed by volunteers during National Coastal Clean Up Day.
  5. Never release balloons outside as they can travel hundreds of miles and land in rivers, creeks, and oceans. Whales, dolphins and turtles can be killed by ingesting balloons mistaken for jellyfish. See Save The Whales “Balloon Alert” flyer in English and Spanish. Educate your schools or community businesses not to participate in balloon releases. A 60 foot sperm whale washed up dead from ingesting a balloon which blocked its stomach and caused it to starve.
  6. Keep your car well maintained to prevent leaks onto roadways and driveways which cause water pollution. Carpool when possible, or ride a bike. Recycle used motor oil for free. Take hazardous waste such as paint, pesticides, and antifreeze to a hazardous waste site. Call 1-800-CLEAN-UP or visit www.cleanup.org for the free drop off location near you.
  7. Never discard used fishing line and hooks in the water. This can entangle birds, fish, turtles, seals, and otters and cause the death of these animals.
  8. Never dump anything in the street as it goes into the storm drains which travel straight to rivers, creeks, and ultimately the oceans without being cleaned. Did you know that? One quart of motor oil can pollute 250,000 gallons of water. A drop of oil the size of a dime stuck on a sea otter can kill them. They die from hypothermia (freezing to death).
  9. Recycle, Reuse and Reduce. Landfills across the nation are filling up with discarded items and refuse. Hazardous waste thrown in the garbage, ends up in landfills where it leeches into the soil and ground water causing contamination. Reduce your refuse by recycling, reusing and composting. Plant an organic garden free of pesticides.
  10. Buy products that are environmentally friendly and support organic farming.

Narwhal Facts

These are some interesting facts you may like to know about Narwhals:

  • Narwhals are really mammals, whales actually.
  • There are about 75,000 Narwhals in the world.
  • Narwhals are primarily found in the Arctic.
  • Up to 50% of the Narwhal’s body weight is blubber!
  • Narwhals can dive up to 3,300 feet!
  • Narwhals’ tusks can be up to 3 meters long!
  • Some Narwhals have 2 tusks!
  • The tusk is a sensory organ that senses changes in the environment.
  • Narwhals migrate in the summer in pods of up to 100.
  • Narwhals love robotics!

Narwhal Videos

From National Geographic. Found Here.

From the Discovery of Sound in the Sea. Found here.