Coral: Engineer of the Oceans

Reading Time: 9 minutesWhat is coral? Coral is neither a plant nor a rock, but a marine animal belonging to the phylum Cnidaria and the class Anthozoa, like jellyfish and sea anemones. It is composed of thousands of tiny organisms called polyps. Each polyp is a microscopic animal with a mouth surrounded by stinging tentacles that capture plankton […]

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The Gibbon Rehabilitation Project: Saving Thailand’s gibbons

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Gibbon Rehabilitation Project (GRP) is a gibbon rehabilitation centre located in Phuket, Thailand. Since the 1990s, it has been working to reintroduce these monkeys into their natural habitat after they were taken from the wild and exploited in tourist circuits to satisfy the demand for souvenir photos – a practice that is now punishable by fines.

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