Biologists are able to determine the sources of toxins in water by using clams as pollutant traps. Clams naturally clean water by feeding absorbing toxins in their tissues as they draw in water. By placing the clams downstream of industrial parks and highways, they can be analyzed for pollutants. Biologists open the clams after exposure to these waters and detach …
WHY JOIN WHALE COAST CONSERVATION?
South Africa has one of the fastest rates of environmental decline in the world, according to research conducted by researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities in the US. Their world-wide findings rank SA No. 128 out of 132 countries in terms of its environmental performance index (EPI) released in March 2012. It is measured as the worst of all the …