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Yesterday we combed #Amed Beach for more than two hours, collecting everything from bottle caps, sandals, #plastic and glass bottles, lighters, straws, #fishing line, plastic cups, plastic toys, remote control cases, #plasticbags, fag ends, you name it. The waste management here in #Bali, is, non existent.. and what little infrastructure there is, is undone by the disregard of the #environment, not only by locals but by tourists too. We can point the blame all we like at places like #indonesia, #india, #china whatever but the truth is, is that at home, we are good at hiding our waste, we have councils that clean up the streets daily, and ship our rubbish overseas for lesser equipped economies to “deal with” We believe that if we buy it and then “recycle” it, we’re doing a good job - not true. Recycling plants only truly #recycle about 8% of all waste that is sent to its facilities, the rest ends up in #landfills. our job no matter where we are, is to #refuse and #reduce, not just to “reduce and recycle” and to also help in places where we can. #take3forthesea #saynotoplastic we came to the beach to have a swim, lay down and relax, but it just didn’t sit right with us to lie there, but have to push a bunch of #rubbish out the way to clear a spot.. so I went to a bar and asked the owner if I could have the boxes and black sacks that he had just so sweetly chucked into the bushes moments before 😑 We walked maybe 200m of #beach yesterday, and it took us more than two hours, trying our best to filter out all the small, disintegrating bits of #microplastic, putting them inside an old #cocacola bottle to keep them contained. We filled a huge sack, a big cardboard box, and we barely touched the sides of the problem. The waste management issue needs to be addressed, and education here is going to be vital. I watch shop keepers sweep up leaves from outside their store, put them into plastic bags, and put the bags of leaves into a bin while totally disregarding the mountain of plastic rubbish, cups and packets accumulating outside They put Coconuts, leaves, carboard boxes, paper and food into plastic bags, and then into bins, filling the bins with waste that does not need to be sent to landfill or wrapped in plastic for that matter - that can infact be burnt or even left on the side of the road to decompose - the organic matter, and then they find no room to throw out the waste that actually needs to be disposed of properly the plastic bottles, wrappers etc, and so they BURN THEM INSTEAD! 🤦🏻‍♀️ If the waste was separated with a tiny bit of thought, mindfulness, and consideration, I believe the issue would be almost halved. We made a fire on the beach yesterday, and we burnt all the coconuts, “offerings” cigarette packets, juice boxes and paper, because we literally didn’t have enough room or hands to carry it all. The most touching and inspiring thing was that people joined in! One ripple can create a wave, which can in turn, create a tsunami. Local kids stopped by and helped us carry rubbish, picking up bits and putting them into the bags, a sweet lady also joined us, and when I thanked her for her help, she said “no, I Thankyou for what you are doing to help Bali” These people don’t want to live like this, but it’s not their fult when they have no other way of knowing, no other way of disposing, and no other way to live. Monkey see, monkey Do, And if these kids grow up to see their beaches and homes smothered in plastic, when the older gens die out, who will be here to lead the change? It’s scary, it’s alarming, but it is fixable. We can all do our bit, and charity starts at home. https://www.instagram.com/p/BibK_-gAq3c/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12g3inztlqx8a

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What does your general waste bin look like when you pull it to the curb side each week? Almost full? Overflowing perhaps.. Having to throw a few cheeky bags into the next door neighbours bin cause yours is full? yah yah, i know the one, I’ve been there, we all have. Life is messy! Not no more; this is our general waste bin for a household of 6 people since 1 JANUARY 2018 (yes I’ve been collecting our trash) @xxxmelodyxxx We have not had a bin for almost two years, but at the beginning of this year I decided to collect our waste as an experiment.. This is EVERY non compostable, and non recycle-able item, this includes pasta packets, old dog toys, cling wrap, old toothbrushes, rope, tampon wrappers, cable ties, bread and chip packets, old rubber bands and broken nails, you name it, it goes in there. We compact it using a long wooden spoon and we press it down until not one more item will fit. You’d be surprised how much can fit in here! Our household is larger than “the average household” with 6-8 people living under one roof at a time - and yes, I understand not having kids makes for a lot less mess, but THIS IS POSSIBLE. More than NINE MONTHS of rubbish compacted into exactly 2.5 milk crates. We have a compost and a worm farm, and have recently got chickens, we eat zero meat and so all scraps can go to the chickens worms and back into the ground, We burn all of our tissue paper and paper products in our weekly fire pit and use it as ash fertiliser for the garden, We buy minimal plastic but re-use and recycle what we do use, and this is what we’re left with. It takes a bit of thought and changing of habits but if we can not even fill 1/4 of a curb side bin in 9 months, I’m pretty stoked on the effort we’re making. I know compost and chickens isn’t do-able for everyone, I’m very lucky, but I do have soloution a for those apartment dwellers, and city lovers on how you can massively reduce your impacts in day to living. Do somthing a bit less shit each day, and the world will be a better place 👍🏼🌴 https://www.instagram.com/p/BntE92XHcQy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1czybhccgh4hj

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Deejay you funny little creature 😍 thanks for the morning bedtime snuggles, the neck kisses, shoulder naps and secret trips to the kitchen for snacks, watching movies on my lap with me and following me around like a miniature black Lab. I love you so much, my little black parrot 🖤 Watching our girls grow from tiny 1/2 day old fluff balls into confident young hens has been an amazing experience and a total joy, such complex funny characters each and every one of them is. So much individuality and personality. 🐥 If Deejay was a “meat hen” she would be off for the chop right about now, not even anywhere near her prime, a tiny 3 month old baby, not even half grown. 3 sad little months a meat hen lives, and she would be twice the size of Deejay at this stage - or any other hen growing naturally, but sadly they are oversized and explode in size thanks to artificial breeding and a high fat slow metabolism diet. These birds, small brained or not, have hilarity, sensitivity, and most of all uniqueness and INDIVIDUALITY. Think about WHO you’re eating next time, not WHAT... these girls and all others out there just like them, are absolutely friends, not food. 🐥✌🏼🌱🌻 (at Cairns, Queensland, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnvbdeDngJR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=74ci8zgmssqr

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I’ve hand raised Deejay since the day she was born, She has always been a strong assertive part of the flock but she has always enjoyed human affection, snuggles and back scratches that little bit more than the other girls. She would fall asleep instantly as I kissed her back and kept her warm when she was a tiny tiny, and she’ll fall asleep now with me in bed for afternoon naps in the aircon, neck outstretched on my arm , waking every so often just to check the coast is still clear, or perch on the couch up behind me and just keep a close watch out over my shoulder. The character and individuality that these girls display is nothing short of the range of personalities in a school yard, shy girls, confident girls, cheeky girls and playful girls, they are all different, all unique and all deserve a chance of a good happy life without pain, distress and suffering. I haven’t eaten meat since I was aged 12, I made that decision all by my little self, based on the grounds that I knew it was morally wrong to enduce pain and suffering on other beings, somthing I believe all children are taught by their parents before the age of 4 (kindness and empathy) but is something that is then riddled out of us through conditioning, and before we know it, we are unconsciously selecting who and what we can take and mistreat and abuse. Cow, chicken, pig - YES, dog, horse, elephant, NO We lose empathy for beings that are “less” than us, or “weaker” than us, and this is where the compassionless cycle begins, that will continue to loop our whole lives unless we ACTIVELY make a change within ourselves. I wasn’t bombarded by social media at the age of 12, social media didn’t even exist when I was that age! I wasn’t flooded with gruesome images of overcramped and filthy living conditions, and hellish tales of gas chambers and electrocuting, forcible impregnation and kidnap, disease, mutilation, global warming, hormones, cancer and cardiovascular disease, but I still made the decision that it was wrong, based on why I knew about animals and what I knew about love, 15 years later, I still sit back with the same confusion and upset as people chose to ignore the truth for the sake of their own pallet, they continue to endulge in the glutinous dead flesh obsessed culture that we live in, remaining blind to the harm they are doing to other individuals, this planet and their own bodies. People joke, and say vegetarians and vegans are weak, well let me ask you this: Do you know how much strength it takes to continue to fight and stand up for what you believe when you’re ridiculed and mocked in society daily? And for what? Being compassionate and having a moral compass? Well if you can find it within yourself to laugh at someone who is defending someone who is more helpless than themselves, than that’s where that cycle loop got’cha good! Ask yourself, would you mock and laugh at a soldier defending a mother and her baby from rape and a brutal murder or would you applaud that soldier? I hope the answer is the latter, then ask yourself why what’s on your plate is any different to where your morals truly lie. Don’t lie to yourself, it is wrong, in all regards, it is wrong. No matter how “grass fed” the cow who’s leg that steak came from was, or how “free range” that chicken who’s wing you’re sucking clean was, I can assure you, marketing is very clever and powerful, and unless you raised it yourself, killed it yourself, and butchered it yourself, the packet that that flesh comes in is lying to you, so you can feel better about lying to yourself. Take control of your life, make the right decision and move forward this coming year, guilt, and cruelty free. 🙏🏽💕🌱 https://www.instagram.com/p/BqDin6ihfPP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=tdu0lf545zfj

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Happy Earth Day. 🤙🏽🌎💔 This HAS to stop. We HAVE to stop. I laid down under a tree last night, and I ran the soil and dirt through my hands and I cried and I cried inconsolably. I felt her, I felt her pain. She is suffocating, and screaming and we have lost the ability to hear her, we’ve lost touch with our Earth Mother, our life source and our home. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN. HOW ARE WE SO FAR DISCONNECTED TO THE ONE THING THAT SUSTAINS OUR LIFE?? Collectively, we can all make a difference, we can make changes, however small, to better the world in which we live and leave no footprint behind us when we go. Every person who owns an iPhone should own a reusable water bottle, and a canvas bag, every car should have a keep cup in it for that take out coffee on your way to work, and remember when they offer you a straw, that you are not an infant anymore. Eat meat just a little less PLEASE, (it’s the biggest CO2 emission industry, even more so than all jet planes and cars on earth COMBIND) , and I promise you - it’s early grave shit that meat stuff anyway, but if you “just can’t not” BE RESPONSIBLE, BE EDUCATED, BE CONSCIOUS, AND BE AWARE. Nah, not even - Just Eat Plants, for fucks sake!! if you see someone throwing their rubbish onto the ground, be insulted, she is yours just as much as she is everyone’s, you have a DUTY to speak up, you have a DUTY to educate your children, and you have a DUTY, as a citizen of this earth to make it a better place than when you entered it. It’s called evolution.. it’s what we’ve been doing for millennia, except the last cent. we’re devolving and poisoning ourselves and looking at other people to blame, instead of looking in the mirror and asking what we can do today to make this place a better place. We make choices for ourselves daily, let’s start making the right ones. (at Lembongan, Bali, Indonesia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bh4i7_AgP_R/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=cvom2wx0uokl

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WOW. We got to hand out with these gentle giants for over an hour thanks to @tamarinddivers on #Nusalebongan. 🙏🏽 Watching these incredible creatures slowly flying through the water was one of the most incredible marine experiences of my life to date, let’s say that the salty water in my mask wasn’t from the sea water for once. Preserving places like this, that these guys call home is absolutely crucial to our marine ecosystem and our worldly ecosystem as a whole. It saddens me to say that not only did we see many mantas, we also saw a multitude of plastic debris throughout the water coloumn not to mention what floats in the surface - an almost seeming endless stream of floating packets, bottles and bags, and as filter feeders these poor guys can’t help but swallow up to 40 PEICES OF MICROPLASTICS PER HOUR!! This toxic soup of plastic and the chemicals that plastic absorbs is slowly but surely killing our marine life and poisioning our biggest life source on earth, the oceans. Please, wether you live near or far from the ocean, refuse and reduce your use of plastics, tell the producers that plastic is not what you want and not what you need, and move towards sustainable and renewable resources. We can all make a difference to the world in which we live. To make this place better for the future generations, so that our children and our children’s children actually have a planet worth calling “home” Bali May seem a million miles away from where you sit right now, but if you drink water or if you breath air, then these issues effect you too. 😓 #plasticfree #mantarays #plasticoceans #microplastics (at Tamarind Divers Lembongan) https://www.instagram.com/p/BiGVuqmg_EI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=xwjpohph5vrj

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This is ALL of our (non compostable / recyclable) waste for ONE WHOLE MONTH. We have 8 people living in our house, including @xxxmelodyxxx and I. It’s been a month since my post talking about our #wastedisposal system in our #airbnb house, and since I received so many #positive messages about using this system I decided we would document our waste over the year, and weight it at the end, to show the average household comparison. In one month, please just imagine how many “full binliners” you’ve thrown out. How many times have your bins been overflowing, crammed to the brim? Ours? Not once, in fact, we haven’t even put the bins out once! Each of these bottles weighs on average 1.4kg They are dense, solid, compact and the loose #rubbish inside, is contained. There is no argument to be had that this HAS to be the way we start disposing of our #plastic #waste. I want to stress to every person reading, to every “average household” to every mum with kids, that you don’t have have to become #vegan #plasticfree #organic #freerange #holistic #ecowarriors overnight, but you can make just one small change in your kitchen to become more responsible for your waste. We unfortunately live in a society, class and world where plastic is entwined in our everyday lives, from our cosy sheets and cushions and pillows on our bed, to our toothbrushes and cutlery to our clothing to our cars. Every item comes in some kind of packaging, Even plastic Tupperware comes wrapped in plastic, oranges and BANNANAS even, so much of it is unnecessary and some, that we CAN avoid, by firstly making conscious efforts in store to buy products that aren’t wrapped in plastic, chose alternatives if they are offered, and bring your own bags to the store. It’s the everyday items that most households cannot escape from though is where the issues, I believe, lie. Up to 60% of what we dispose of ends up in one way or another, as ocean debris. Plastic bags for pasta, bread in plastic bags, cling wrapped pumpkin, plastic lining over the pressure sealed jam jars, plastic wrappers over your tampons, plastic coated labels from your tshirts, it’s everywhere, and this stuff we CAN chose to dispose of properly. You don’t need to eradicate your bin, you don’t need to change anything drastic in your home, Just take one plastic bottle from your recycle bin and put it next to your bin, When you have that loose wrapper, that packet, that ball of cling wrap, Put it in the bottle instead. We fit almost 1 KILO of plastic litter into a milk bottle. It IS possible to reduce and refuse, it IS possible to minimalise our consumption, and it IS possible to be responsible when it comes to disposal too. This is an ongoing project for the year.. You should give it a try in your home too. If we can as 8 people. You can too. Food waste is composted / dog food. Recyclables are cleaned and recycled Everything else. #BRICKIT 💕🤙🏽🌍 https://www.instagram.com/p/Beke42PgtZ5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=q5aj8uj4lgi4

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I’m hearing a lot of bustling in the bushes at the moment when it comes to diet choice, it’s really becoming somthing in society as a whole, that we are becoming more and more aware of, not for the “perfect body” or “killer abs” but for a nourishing, healthy, rich diet that is active in bettering and strengthening our bodies, without causing or funding suffering and torture upon other creatures. Wether it’s for the animals sake, environments sake, your bodies intolerances, or for fashion, veganism and awareness of where our products come from, is somthing that is becoming more and more talked about, and it makes my heart brim and overflow with joy when I see VEGAN OPTIONS on majorities of menus now, where as just a few years ago, asking for just vegetarian options was a stretch, and soy milk and tofu were seen as a bit of a joke. 🌱 awareness IS spreading, and it’s because of activism, little movements like this, and the ability to for us as humans to stop, for two minuites, and learn and pass that knowledge on. That is how we are WHAT and WHO we are today, from apes with sticks, to kids with drones, we evolved, yet we still eat such a barbaric diet, as if we were still cave dwellers. Between 2013 and 2017 veganism in the USA rose from 1.4% - 7.3% THAT IS HUGE!!! a huge movement is happening and it’s your chance in this new year to better your self and better your children’s health, future and to pass on the knowledge of what you know. ALWAYS SPEAK UP 😝 if you know but say nothing you’re as bad as the ones who do it, speak up and tell everyone you know what is right and give alternatives, blow their mind with pumpkin and tofu Dhals, scrambled tempeh n tofu on toast, and mushroom and rosemary risotto with yeast flakes!! There is a life that is blood and grease and fat and puss free, and it’s plant based! 2018 is the year! 🌱✌🏽🍃🐮💚 (at Cairns, Queensland, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bdpfivagprg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=c9knno7tjuom

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A super cute bunch of us went to 4 mile beach today in Port Douglas to be part of the #StopAdani human sign #coralnotcoal What an epic turnout for a cause that needs more attention. If you don't know about #Adani already, get to know. #qld (at Four Mile Beach Port Douglas)

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I want to just talk about waste disposal, just for one minute if you will.. some eyebrow raising points below I promise 🤗🙏🏽 (more exciting than this photo anyway) For the last year exactly, Melody and I have been running #Airbnb through our home in #Cairns, we live there full time, and we have three bedrooms that we let out, and we are booked, back to back, and have been all year round. We have had over 400 people come through our gates and stay in our home so far. I’m in the process of starting a piece of #writing titled “I’ve had more housemates than I’ve had hot dinners this year” but that’s a story for another time.. During our first month of guests I was becoming more and more alarmed at the amount of times our bins were becoming backlogged, full and overflowing, and full of nonsense too, half of which could be #recycled but was lazily thrown in the trash, along with food, clothes, handfuls of carrier #bags, everything, a #disposable mindset of #travellers was highlighted to me. I then decided we were going to #eco brick. I first saw eco bricks in a small town in #Mexico where a hostel was making bricks out of the backpackers #rubbish to help build a school. We would sort out #trash accordingly and put wrappers, packets, soft loose debris rubbish into glass bottles. Once stuffed completely full, the bottles were collected and used as bricks in a wall, and the wall, it looked phenomenal. A simple idea that means that resources are not taken from the ground to be used for a wall, and also a hole is not dug in the ground for our “single use” #resources to be thrown into. However here in #Australia we had no school asking for our bottles of rubbish, no hospitals wanting to build out of trash, so what would we do with the waste?! OHS safety something or other.. 😏 Think about this.. You line your kitchen bin with a #plastic bag, either “reused” from the store or a store bought bin bag, or perhaps even no bin bag. You open a packet of pasta and a tin of tomatoes and a packet of mince to make a bolognese, You throw the tin the #packets and all the onion peel and carrot tops in the bin, eat the pasta, and scrape your plate clean into the bin. You sort trough some paperwork after dinner and chuck some bits and bobs in the bin, the #coffee cup from the #takeout you got at lunch, the grocery store receipt and an old bag with a tear in it from the apple you had to put in a bag only to take back out and eat 5 mins after purchase, your old socks have a hole in them and theres a clump of hair from your hairbrush that just has to go now, it’s also new toothbrush time, so toss the old one out! Next morning, you finish the box of cereal, chuck it in the bin.. the cornflakes went soggy in your bowl so you leave some behind, the bowl with milk juices and soggy flakes gets turned upside down into the bin.. even in the UK climate, those milk juices and those onion peels are smelling FUUUUNky by that evening, so, you take the trash out, and run too, cause the milk is dripping out the bottom of the bag and it stinks!! Sound familiar? That’s you. And that’s your waste story for 48 hours. That’s also 6billion other people’s 48hour waste story too. Imagine that, but for a household of 8-10 people. I know some of you may have kids, babies, toddlers, but I’m not even debating that TEN BACKPACKERS are worse than your two children. We decided we would try having no bin, and using a bottle instead, and it worked, incredibly actually. I throw one of these bottles out each week, sometimes two bottles depending on what bottle I’m using, those big 2L juice ones, they last 2 weeks easy! All plastic, tin, glass and paper is recycled in the recycle bin, Our house is a #meatfree house and so all food scraps are #composted in our garden, and some turned into dog food.. And all general waste, from cotton buds to noodle wrappers to dead batteries and chip packets, every single thing goes in here. I then came across people asking why, of course, it’s an unusually #conscious and mindful way of throwing things out, and take a little getting used to, and I’d find myself rattling in about hundreds of pros for this rather than a bin bag.. when in summary I guess the main point is that; after you chuck that stinky soggy bag into the big bin outside, it sits till tomorrow or the next day when you take the trash out again, and then it’s chucked into the back of a lorry that crushes it all and the bags that contained your juice and wrappers are now torn open and just another bag in the mix of trash you already threw out. The trash you threw out is now not contained in a bag with a neat little knot in the top, it’s now just a few pieces of the millions of loose pieces of plastic, wrapping and other items just loose and flying around in the back of the pick up, where pieces are flying out each time the back is opened for a new bin to be tipped, each bit getting taken eventually to the storm drain, to the waterways and to our #seas . Those little bits are the bits that make up 7 garbage bags full of rubbish on little #islands like #fitzroyisland where we were just a few days ago doing a #beachclean up with @parley.tv and the bits that make it to “landfill” ? Theyre tipped into an incomprehensible sized hole in the ground left to rot for the next few thousand years.. ever piling ever growing.. With the bottles I know that the rubbish I put in there is contained and makes it to landfill in one piece, and will stay inside that bottle forever causing no harm to wildlife, and is now just one piece of solid trash as opposed to hundreds of loose flying free spirited wrappers and packets that I all too often pick up from the beach. I urge you to try it, it’s easier than you may think, it just takes a little #consciousness and #mindfulness and I guarantee you a cleaner, fresher smelling, BIN-JUICE-LEAS & fly-less kitchen and the guilt of perhaps harming #oceanic creatures with your trash, to be lifted! 🙏🏽💙🌼🐢♻️💕 @ Cairns, Queensland, Australia

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Stoked to be a part of the #beachclean at #fitzroyisland today for the soft launch of @parley.tv in #Australia ✌🏽🍃 Oh, and of course meet the legend @christian_miller_photo 🙋🏼🙋🏼 who is, and has always put in groundbreaking efforts in Ocean Conservation, and inspired thousands to love the oceans through his magical photography 🙇🏼‍♀️💕🐢 All in all I’m pleased to say that the amount of rubbish that we collected was not huge, however what lies between the number of bags is what is important.. We filled about 8 large sacks with rubbish, one being glass, cans and #plastic bottles, the rest, all varied trash. Plastic bags, chip packets, #straws, bottle caps, cigarette butts, plastic lids, lighters, items of clothing, drink cartons, babies nappies and sweet wrappers to name a few of the common culprits.. Given that large items such as water bottles and beer cans would be picked up most frequently by either other conscious minded people or staff on the island itself, and there is a strict no littering policy in place also, I feel this is why we had a comparatively small haul compared to other beach clean ups I’ve been to.. however, Here, it’s clearly the itty bitty bits that slip away and lose our sight, that we think won’t make a difference, but do. Today they made 7 sacks full of itty bitty difference. Even the smallest chip of plastic, however small, even the smallest corner that got torn from your ice cream wrapper that you viciously spat in disgust onto the floor as you tore the packet in haste and it got stuck on your lip, even that corner can mean the difference between life and death not only to a fish, but to a seabird, a turtle, or even a whale. Please try and think, each day, about where things come from before they reach your hands, and then, where they go to after they leave your hands, because they certainly didn’t appear from nowhere and they don’t just magically disappear back to nowhere either. It may be in your hands only for minutes but it will be here on earth for a lifetime. Make wise choices. Avoid. Intercept. Redesign. AIR = LIFE #parleyair #AIR #parley 💚♻️🐢🍃 (at Fitzroy Island National Park)

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Hearing the yes vote ring through at 62% vs. a 38% no vote: the biggest anticlimax 🙄 like having drunk sex at 15, just a load of motion and cerfuffle, built up fustration for an obvious and blunt ending. Well done Australia 2017 👏🏽🏳️‍🌈 NO FREEDOM TIL WERE EQUAL, DAMN RIGHT THATS IMPORTANT!!

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Humpbacks for sure fascinate me more than any other creature, (bar dogs) 😏💕🐶 They spend the majority of their life deep underwater, except for the incredible acrobat shows they give us on times like this 🙏🏽we know so little about their lives, their world, but the little that we do know,is pretty mind blowing. They have complex & altruistic personalities & their brains are capable of experiencing emotions and even a different extended range of emotions to what humans experience, suggesting they even have the ability to feel MORE compassion, more grief & more elation than we are able to. Their communication techniques are so unique & so broad that they are still not understood fully by us, yet we can communicate with each other through instant message from the other side of the world, we can talk to somebody who is in outer space, we have computer programming, special OP decoding, the CIA and MI5 & yet we still are unable to understand the complexities of whale song. They have been pushed to the brink of extinction, for meat, for oil & out of fear, & have bounced back, twice, yet still remain curious, gentle and inquisitive towards people. Their are solitary animals but have been known to develop orchestrated hunting techniques in large groups in certain feeding grounds to make hunting more effective and efficient for them all - (YouTube humpback bubble rings) once full grown they can reach almost 18M & weigh in at 40T, with eyeballs bigger than grapefruits and hearts as big as a car, we are still their biggest threat. They travel long & treacherous waters migrating to calving, feeding & mating grounds & encounter all kinds of humo-alien shit along the way, sonic blast testing, longline fishing, megatrawlers, illegal whalers, Navy fleets, oil spills, & the millions & millions of tonnes of plastic drifting through our oceans, riddling every creature from the most mighty, to the microscopic with its toxins.. Imagine the tail a humpback would tell, if only she had some thumbs.. 🐋✨💕 Photo taken when working alongside @allseacharters in #Busselton #WA in last years #humpback season (at Busselton, Western Australia)

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Processed meats are Class 1 carcinogens, the same as cigarettes. Kids, who's down for McDonalds?! 🐷🚬👼🏼 / 🌱🥑🍒

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A year ago today I stood in front of "Environment Minister" Greg Hunt asking him to keep coal in the ground & move on from fossil fuels. I stood in the rain with a bunch of concerned locals, scientists and activist groups as he looked up at the sky, open mouthed and lamely beiged off questions regarding dredging and its impacts to the reef, told bare faced lies about budgets and spendings, twisted facts and scientific findings into useless strings of meaningless words, and lied some more about minimal impacts, zero effects and an Australian economic boom evolving around #coal Since then the #greatbarrierreef has been hit for the second year in a row by mass coral bleaching, effecting almost 97% of coral - purely caused by warming of oceans caused by burning of #fossilfuels This has to stop!! Tonight, in #Cairns is the premier of the #documentary Guarding The Galilee, which talks of the need to protect sites from #mining companies such as #Adani and #GVKHankok The proposal for the #Carmichael mine will mean the #heritage site #GBR and protected native land is at the hands of monsters with mega-tonne machines who will stop at nothing to turf out those dirty black rocks. Everything is at risk here, and nothing seems to be enough to make a change. Say no to Coal today, and think about how you can make easy and money saving ways to switch to renewables. #greghunt #keepcoalintheground #lockthegates #coralnotcoal #stopadani #adanicoal #coalisdirty #shootyourselfinthefootmate

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BIG UPS TO ALL WOMEN! 💋💖 who are rockin their shit all over the world, standing up together for what’s right, and speaking the fuck up when things are wrong. Here's to a future where we can all openly and actively love whom we love without oppression or predjuice, hatred or boundaries. here's to those at rally's, marches and riots who represent the women who live in countries where if you have a vagina, you don't have a voice, and are treated like so. Big ups to all you mumma’s, new ones and the-soon-to be’s and of course, the experienced, got the t-shirt stains, and haven’t had a lie in for YEARS moms, bringing a kid up is the biggest thing you’ll ever do in your life, and I salute all of you who are doing it on your own, it’s tough, and at times, it’s fuckin rough, but you manage to keep shit together regardless, even if it’s with baby vomit and diaper tape. a massive big uuuuuuup to the females In politics, and schools, in social work, nursing and science, who are continuing to make positive and groundbreaking changes for our planet, our people and our environment!! big up the women who stand on-top of trains, and tie themselves to trees to stop them being cut down, big ups to the reporters and the insiders, risking it all to bring us the real truth, to the women who throw down their ties and stamp their heels and walk out the bullshit contract business meetings, cause the policies just don’t match their own ethics, to the women who don’t take shitty coffee and say so, to women who spit, and snort and snore, to those who tiptoe around heels with small dogs, and pretend to love horse racing, and the little finger up when sipping on tea types too, shit and of course - the ones who sink a pint faster than you can say PINT! AAAAAAND FINALLY BIG UP BOOOOOBS!! the big boobs and small boobs, the bra-less boob and the cleavage you wanna shove your face into boob, I LOVE BOOBS! WOMEN you are all sexy creatures of this earth, beach babes and tomboys, long hair, or no hair, pubes down there or balder than a hare, me nah care! HAPPY WOMENS DAY 💖💋🌹

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These guys were at a pit stop on our way to Sapa, In Northern Vietnam. They were hidden behind a wall of tarpaulin away from the tourists eyes, but their cries for help gave them away. They were in cages far too small for them to turn around, had no water, and had just leftover rice thrown to them as food, Somebody had written "This is cruel, free the dogs" on the cage but the dogs still remained inside. This stop had mini bus after mini bus pull up, and god only knows how long those dogs had been in there for, and how many people had seen them and turned a blind eye. I refuse to EVER be one of those people. If you know somthing is wrong and yet take no action, or don't speak up, you in my eyes are as bad as the wrong-do-er themselves. I managed to open one of the doors and free the young female on the right. As I was unscrewing the tangle of wire that bound her cage door shut, she gave me the most beautiful and intense look of hope, thankfulness but also shadowed with fear, she pawed at my hand as I untied the knots and held her paw on my hand, and as soon as the door opened, she burst out and didn't look back, and ran for the hills, the other two, I sadly couldn't open, they were locked in with bolts and screws and I had only minuites with these guys. If this sight makes you sad or angry, know that these are the same conditions in which the animals on your plate are raised in, and just because you think it's normal to eat pigs and not dogs, doesn't mean it's okay to treat them any different. People get so upset about the death, blood and gore, but that hasn't got anything on how these animals are forced to live day in day out. death has got to be the best thing they get to experience in their short lives because this, this is worse than anything you can imagine.. suffering and neglect at its worst. This is just three lives, and I managed to save only one. Over 56 billion animals are killed every year by humans for food consumption, and these shocking figures do not even include fish and other sea creatures whose deaths are so great they can only be measured in tonnes. Ignorance is bliss as long as you let it be. But trust me, it's so much more (at Hanoi, Vietnam)