JU OSNOVNA ŠKOLA „MEKSIKO” BAR

09. april 2019.

Ekološka sekcija - A little is enough

Sunrise was always greeted with a joy in the forest, and that particular morning it brought a new day to the cheerful forest animals. While the wind was dancing with the trees, the rain drops like pearl jewels ran down their leaves in a row, where they awaited the morning. Everything smelled like fresh dewy grass, young trees and wild roses.

Cheerful twittering of birds woke the family that was impatiently waiting for this day. In fact, this magical morning, mom, dad and their squirrel children were preparing to go on a trip. They got up from the bed in a hurry, and begin with the preparations. Dad was making suitcases, and mom laid nuts in the pantry that family will eat when they get back.

Daughter squirrel, tried to see in the river how she combed her tail, as previously could not because the water was dirty. But as previous mornings, the water was not clean enough.

A bit dissatisfied, she joined her family and they all continued their journey together. The day was sunny with a few clouds, and it seemed that the squirrel family will reach their desired destination in peace. Most of the trip went in peace until the moment when they came across a pile of trash that was standing in the middle of the road and thus prevented their further course.

Parents were anxiously watching pile of trash. “Mom, Dad, what is this?” son squirrel said directing them a look full of curiosity, since in the forest where his family lives, he nor his sister have never seen anything like it. Father looked at them a little nervously, and then said:
“Kids, we have tried as long as possible for you not to be familiar with the waste” “Waste?” said surprisingly daughter squirrel “What is that?” “Waste is” mother began, “a product of human monsters. You see kids, people are foolish beings, and we animals will never understand them. They throw Things that are consumed and useless anywhere they can, on the roads, villages, gardens, and rarely a few people store them in the containers for recycling. Trough these actions, people think that things they throw will no longer be a problem for them, but they make even more damage to people and to us too. Because of these reckless acts plants are dyeing, air and water are being polluted, there is less oxygen and the health of all creatures is under threat. It goes on for a long time but no one is doing anything, there is no sense of guilt, but waste and polluted environment is all over.”

“So, that is waste?”

“Not only that” dad began “waste are also those huge machines that move without legs, leaving behind big gray cloud that pollutes the air that we and the whole world breathe. There are more and more of these machines only because of the human selfishness. Waste is also that black liquid that people are using to start those machines. When that liquid is transported by ships, it pollutes the sea and its inhabitants. In the case of a shipwreck, black liquid is being spilled and so it kills millions of fishes, the sea turns black as it will the future of the world if this continues.”

 “It is terrible” son exclaimed. “Yes it is” said the father.

Having finished their discussion, the family started looking for a way through. They decided to dig a tunnel through a pile of waste. So that is what they did, and then continued their way. They had a lovely time on the vacation, but on their way back an unpleasant surprise was waiting for them.             

“What happened?” asked surprisingly dad squirrel.

“People...people”  said rabbit whit a shaky voice “dozens of them came and cut down our forests, our homes. After that, people discharged a huge bucket of waste into the lake”

“It was scary, we could hear cries of frightened animals, the earth was trembled while trees were falling, many animals have escaped, but unfortunately some have not managed to save themselves” said the owl. “We hid in the bushes and watched this unfortunate scene” ferret said  “All animals were crying, many of them have lost their brothers and sisters”. “This is terrible!” father squirrel exclaimed.

 “We have to do something!” “We could put up a riot!” said the mother squirrel. “We could turn to Mother Nature!” son squirrel cried.

“You're right, we will send a letter to Mother Nature!” animals shouted. And so it was. Animals sent a letter to Mother Nature who was very ill.

And on the other side of the world, while Mother Nature was drinking her medicine from a flowery juice the wind knocked on her door delivering a letter. She opened it, and as she was reading in her mind appeared the image of crying animals and devastated forests. She was not surprised, because this letter was just one of the many that were sent because of this problem. So she decided to convene a fairy alliance made ​​up of water, health, plants, and air fairies. She wrote that in the letter.

When the wind delivered this to the forest animals a joy appeared in the woods.

“Finally, we will fight against the human selfishness” exclaimed mom squirrel.

“Our homes will return to us” said the skunk.

And they all went together to the Heavenly chambers where the meeting was being held.

They went to the cloud station, and began their journey. The atmosphere in the train was very comfortable and everyone was very optimistic. But when they arrived at the heavenly chamber, they found no one.

“Is this a scam?” said bunny.
“I don`t think that Mother Nature would let us down” said daddy squirrel. “Did something happened to them” frightened owl shouted.

At that moment their discussion was interrupted by creaking door through which entered Mother Nature, very sick and devastated.

 Everyone was watching in amazement.

“Why are you so sad?” said skunk.

“Why?” said Mother Nature, “Because people do not take care of me and they do not respect me. I gave them everything, and they gave me nothing. I did not know that they are so ungrateful creatures. Every day I am breathing in smoke and I am loosing my brothers and sisters-rivers, forests, lakes.  But I'm not the only one at loos, whatever happens to me even worse will happen to them.”

“And how long your illness lasts?”  Mom squirrel asked.

“For years, centuries, and nobody does nothing about it”, replied with sadness Mother Nature.

“But where are the others?” said the owl.

“They could not come because they're very sick, even more than me.”

“Yeah” said the ferret “ferries of health, plants, air and water will not come?”       “Unfortunately,” said Mother Nature, “ I barely got here, but if they can not come, let us find a solution!”

They began their discussion and in the next few hours they come up with solution.                                                              
“Beautiful, recycling is a great idea” Mother Nature began, “in that way we will remove waste and we won’t do harm to anyone. Of course, this will not be enough because we do not have the machines, nor we are in such number as people. But it is still a great contribution to our environment.”

 “But I still think it is unfair.”  Said daughter squirrel, “It's not fair that we are suffering because of human errors, and that we, literally, clean up after them!”

“But we have to, we have to fight for our future, for our health” said dad squirrel.

And so it was. Worms along with fertilizer processed a waste of fruits and vegetables into fertile land. Everyone was cleaning the garbage outside their home. Plant fairy sprinkled magic dust over the forest and the trees grown again. Birds sang again, and the flowers blossomed. Peace has returned to the forest.

But if human conscience does not wake up, nothing will ever be the same.