TV cartoons urge children to save seas

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November 7, 2016

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Agence France-Presse (AFP)

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Coral reefs may be dying off at an alarming rate and pollution and overfishing emptying the seas . But fear not. Help is at hand in the form of a new wave of cartoon superheroes determined to save the oceans.Muppets creators the Jim Henson Company said Sunday that their new animated children’s series “Splash and Bubbles” would help mobilise a new generation to save the undersea world.The big-budget 40-episode series, which will screen on PBS in the United States next year, aims to “turn the tide of our world to save the planet”.

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TV cartoons urge children to save seas. (2016, November 7). Philippine Daily Inquirer, p. E4.