TV cartoons urge children to save seas
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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.
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Television systems; Coral reefs; Environmental protection; Water pollution; Overfishing; Tropical fish; Nature conservation; Marine ecology; Overfishing; Oceans; Marine scientists; Education; Marine sciences; Disney; Jim Henson Company; Heson, Lisa; Henson, Jim; Cousteau, Jacques; Castaing, Aymeric; Verne, Jules; Tesla, Nikola; Eiffel, Gustave; Earle, Sylvia; Goldsmith, Richard
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