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Adventurer, author and environmentalist David de Rothschild made an epic voyage in 2009 on a catamaran made from recycled plastic bottles and called the Plastiki. He sailed from San Francisco to Sydney to raise awareness of plastic pollution in the oceans and the need for recycling. He wrote a book about his voyage entitled Plastiki: Across The Pacific On Plastic.

The Frangipani is a tree that has strongly-scented flowers that are used in the perfume industry and as a scent for incense sticks. This tree needs a high temperature and so is grown for its ornamental value in tropical and sub-tropical parks and gardens.

Interviews for jobs always need preparation. You need to consider what the employer is going to be looking for.

Tenerife in the Canary Islands has many fascinating endemic plants including many types that are medicinal herbs. One of these is the Canary Candle Shrub (Senecio kleinia). It is also a succulent plant adapted to the hot and dry climate.

Many people from the UK like to try growing flowers they had in their British gardens in the new ones they have if they move abroad to Tenerife in the Canary Islands, for example.

Phones are something we all use but they can cause a lot of problems and are not always our friends.

Many people believe in Atlantis and Mu or Lemuria, and that these very ancient continents were destroyed when the ocean engulfed them in water. They vanished beneath the waves.

Although it is said that God made man in his own image the mind of the Creator and that of the human seem vastly different. It can be assumed that everything which was created is of importance and serves a function in the creation or why was it made? Poet William Blake gave a lot of thought to this matter.

The Kei Apple is a fruit tree with a yellow and fragrant fruit that gives it its name.

A British moth known as the Drinker Moth is called this because its caterpillar really does drink water.

Tenerife in the Canary Islands has a number of mysterious pyramids that some say were built by the Guanches who inhabited the island before the Spanish Conquest but academics do not accept this and say the constructions were made by farmers clearing their land of rocks. Most of the pyramids are in the town of Güímar and were thought to be authentic by the late Thor Heyerdahl.

Plastic is a serious danger to many marine animals and seabirds because they swallow it after mistaking it for food. Plastic is increasingly polluting the oceans where it doesn't biodegrade but breaks into smaller and smaller floating pieces. It is killing whales, turtles and birds such as albatrosses, as well as entering the food chain all the way up to us.

Los Gigantes is a popular holiday resort in Tenerife that is famous for its very high cliffs that give the place its name.

Anna Rodriguez is a jazz singer on the island of Tenerife in the Canary islands. She has a large and growing fan-base and a recent album out.

Puerto de la Cruz is a popular holiday resort in the north of Tenerife and besides its beaches and other attractions it has wonderful botanical gardens.

Agua Garcia is a village in the wooded countryside in the north of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. It has a cooler climate than many parts in the south of the island and many fruit and vegetables grow there.

The Las Mercedes laurel forests are in the Anaga Mountain range in the north of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, and this beautiful countryside is a wonderland for walkers.

La Guancha is a pretty town in the mountains and forests in the north of Tenerfe in the Canary Islands.