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National Winning Article 2010 – 1st: Tourist Attraction or a Froggly Graveyard? Chadwick Lakes

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Chadwick Lakes, or 'Wied Qlejgħa', is a reservoir situated in Mtarfa, Malta. It is dry for most of the year, especially in the summer. However, when winter approaches and a number of heavy rainstorms hit Mtarfa, Chadwick Lakes immediately fills up with the rainwater gathering up from nearby fields. Chadwick Lakes is home to many organisms: trees, plants, birds, insects, mice, frogs et cetera. It would be a shame to see Chadwick Lakes demolished and built as apartments.



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We All Can Help Sea Creatures to Stay Alive!

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Food chains are the way of life. Animals like turtles eat jellyfish but sometimes they confuse plastic bags with jellyfish. Turtles eat jellyfish because turtles don’t have any teeth so they have to eat something soft. When a turtle gets confused and eats a plastic bag it suffocates and dies. This implies that the population of turtles will decrease and jellyfish will increase.



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Warm Blooded…Cold Hearted.

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Why are people treating animals this way? Many animal lovers cannot believe how animals can be mistreated in so many ways. They cannot understand how other humans can do evil things to these innocent creatures. One of the main reasons animals are harmed is to make money on selling puppies, inbreeding, by betting on dog and rooster fights, in circus and so much more.



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Using Energy Resources without Damaging Nature

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We often hear how important energy is in our daily life. If it wasn't for energy we wouldn't benefit from many things in our life. We have various types of eco friendly resources, however many people are still generating energy using fossil fuels. What small things can we do in our everyday life to save energy? How do people think about these alternatives? We have two types of fuels, non-renewable and renewable fuels.



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Three instead of just one Recycling Plants to Lessen the Environmental Impact…

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In Malta we have a recycling plant which is located in my own town at Marsascala. At this recycling plant plastic, metal and paper are collected. In every town there are bring-in-sites for people to deposit their discarded metal, plastics, paper. The trash that is thrown there goes to the plant where it is sorted and either processed or exported.



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The Sun is the Soul of Going Green

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Water is the main source of living. Water is used in everyday life whether it is for domestic use such as cleaning the floor, washing dishes, hygiene or leisure, nobody can live without it. Especially when mentioning domestic use, a house can have a solar water heater or a geyser. This can be either beneficial or detrimental.



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The New Green Island

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Aiming to become an Eco-island by 2020, Gozo and the Gozitans are trying their best to conserve the natural and historical heritage left for us by our forefathers.  Eco-Gozo is an effort to transform Gozo into a sustainable island, where the ecology and economy balance each other.  The success of Eco-Gozo depends on the education of the citizens, and the local government and NGOs are collaborating to achieve this goal.



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The Gozo Heritage

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As part of my Systems of Knowledge examination I decided to do voluntary work with Wirt Għawdex, a Gozitan NGO that takes care of the heritage left for us in Gozo, under the area of the Environment.  During this experience, I got involved with this organisation and learnt more about the values regarding the environment.



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Sustainability Club

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The Sustainability Club at St.Clare College Girls’ Secondary School Pembroke is training the students to be environmental friendly by teaching them how to be creative with things that normally ends in the dustbin. The students are shown how not to throw away things that may be used later. So a recycling scheme was introduced in the school, which will show how to recycle more and so send less to the landfill by using the five R’s Re-think, Reduce, Replace, Reuse and Recycle.



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Stopping Illegal Dumping of Waste!

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I went around Cospicua to see if the environment is well kept. I found that a part of Cospicua is clean but a particular area is full of rubbish and discarded things. See photos. Such sites lead to a bad reputation for Cospicua because if tourists come they will say that Cospicua is full of abandoned waste. Then tourists will not come any more. If we keep the environment of Cospicua in a good state it will be an attraction for tourists.



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