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  THE AGAVE PLANT: GIFT FROM THE GODS AND TEQUILA SPIRIT THE OLD AZTECS AND THEIR LEGENDS OF THE AGAVE      The old civilisations of South and Central America had so many mysterious way to express the secrets of nature or to hide them in forever riddle for the modern world. We can witness that all what the pharmacy nowadays is sharing with us has actually origin in the ancient cultures and their discoveries, to heal or to destroy. Everything is somehow connected and has some logic that we all try to understand but still with no real success.      I have never been really interested in the history of alcoholic beveriges or to taste them but then I met Miguel, a friend from Mexico, who was so proud of Mexican famous liquor, Tequila. For me, as an explorer, it was nothing really inviting about that drink that I didn’t try yet but for Miguel, the 38-year-old man from Acapulco, Tequila was the part of Mexican identity, no matter if you are into drinking or not. As he said, the Tequila has i

  THE CORAL REEFS: THE UNIQUE SHELTERS OF MARINE BIOLOGY WHY THE REEFS ARE SO VALUABLE FOR THE NATURE?      I saw them, for the first time, in Jordan….the beautiful and mesmerising Red Sea and the accordion of thousand of corals. Honestly, I have never thought that coral reef could be so magical but, yes, it is. The humans are not aware of that extraordinary and authentic portray of marine ecosystem but now and then, the endangerment of the coral reefs is bringing up the issue of conservation and future protection. The coral reefs are more than valuable part of the nature and one of a kind proof that biodiversity has its own secret solutions.      The coral reefs themselves are the labyrinth of marine habitat. They are such diverse and specific network of many species and according to the science, they are home to more than 25% of the marine life but they are also crucial to 330 million people in the world. Those coral structures are actually the pulsing underwater cities that provide

  SILENT EXTINCTION:GIRAFFES THAT ARE LOST IN WANDERLAND THE WORLD’S TALLEST LAND MAMMAL IS ENDANGERED   “Evolution is so creative. That’s how we got giraffes.” – Kurt Vonnegut  –        They are so gracious animals, elegant and majestic but also very cute. We can look at them and smile with no reason. The world’s tallest land mammals have never done something wrong to people but people have done so much wrong to the  giraffes in last 30 years. We have made them vulnerable to extinction and today, on Wednesday, June 21,  on World Giraffe Day,  we are aware more than ever that conservation must do something urgent regarding this issue.      We are running out the time because they are already placed on the Red List of endangered species. There are fewer than 100,000 left in wild and their number is dropping down rapidly due to the loss of habitat and illegal, so called trophy hunting.  International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) warns that the statistic is black not only f