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Hello, and a very merry festive season to you all! The whole NGK team are planning on having GREEN Christmases this year – that means recycled wrapping paper, home-made gifts, and planet-friendly decorations and food! Check out our website for loads of ideas, and write in to tell us about your own eco festivities! To keep you entertained over the hols, we've got tons of fun puzzles, including our Big Quiz of the Year – were YOU paying attention in 2023? Plus, read heartwarming tales about endangered animals that are making a comeback! Enjoy the mag and see you in 2024! Editor Tim and the Nat Geo Kids team…
Scotland's celebrity whale! Meet Knobble the minke whale – recently named Scotland's most 'attention-seeking' whale! Knobble can be easily identified by a bump on the tip of its dorsal fin, and has been spotted more than 60 times around the Isle of Mull by Scottish whale watchers. Whale photos taken by these 'citizen scientists' were sent to the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust, who can identify individual animals from their specific markings, like Knobble's bump. The Trust studies these marine mammal images through the years and, according to their records, Knobble is the most frequently spotted of the 300 minkes seen in the Hebrides since 1990. Cool! Aussie trees come to UK! Six critically endangered Wollemi pine trees from Australia have been planted in Kent, as part of a global conservation…
Taylor is gourd! What do you think of this Taylor-made pumpkin?! Jeanette Paras, from Ohio, USA, turns the orange fruits into celebrities! For this year's Halloween, she transformed a 180kg gourd into pop star Taylor Swift, painting its skin and adding a wig for hair and sweet potatoes for ears. “I pumpkinise whoever is the hot topic,” she says. You know you're famous once you're a pumpkin head! Bright buildings Famous German monuments were given a striking new look this October during Berlin's Festival of Lights. Colourful patterns, images and video projections were beamed onto the city's landmarks during the four-night light display. How illuminating! Ex-straw-dinary creatures Students from Musashino Art University in Japan crafted these colossal sculptures out of straw for the 2023 Wara Art Festival in Niigata. Using…
MAGNIFIED MOTH! In this mesmerising image, the colourful scales of a Chinese moon moth have been magnified 20 times by macro photographer Yuan Ji from Shanghai, China. “People often shoot moths' tentacles or obvious patterns,” says Yuan, who works at China's World EXPO museum. “But this time, I photographed the edge of the moth's wing. The division and neat arrangement of colour reminded me of cars on a road, and the microstructure is fascinating.” Judges at the Nikon Small World photography competition agree, as Yuan's picture was a runner-up in this year's contest. It's the fourth time one of his pics has appeared in the comp. Well done, Yuan!…
SPECIAL ENDANGERED ANIMALS ISUUE COMEBACK CRITTER 1 For our endangered animals special, we travel the globe to meet four threatened species that are making a comeback – all thanks to caring humans and conservation laws! Read on to discover some of the amazing animals being saved… A 300kg, 3m-long tiger slinks silently through the forest. Its orange-and-black fur matches the pattern of sunlight filtering through the trees. “Tigers are much larger, more beautiful and more graceful than you'd expect,” says John Goodrich, chief scientist for conservation group Panthera, which works to protect tigers. They're the largest wild cats in the world – but they need our help. In the past 100 years, these animals have lost about 95% of their habitat. By 2010, the tiger population was at an all-time…
No two tigers have the same exact stripes. So we think they should win an award for the Coolest Coat! Here are three other endangered animals in Southeast Asia that deserve their own trophy… MOST DEVOTED MUM Adult orangutans are mostly solitary – except for mums with youngsters. Young Sumatran orangutans stay with their mothers till nearly their 10th birthday. Their mums teach them how to survive in the wild – but give them plenty of playtime, too! CUTEST HORNS With fewer than 100 remaining, Javan rhinoceroses are the rarest rhinos on Earth. They also have the smallest horns of all rhinos, often measuring less than 20cm. That's teeny compared to some African species, which have huge horns measuring up to 152cm! BEST DRACULA LOOKALIKE You might think vampires are…
