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107 ROWERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD EMBARK UPON THE TALISKER WHISKY ATLANTIC CHALLENGE 2021

Donations flood in for record-breaking Atlantic rower Jasmine Harrison

CHARITY donations have continued to pour in from well-wishers this week after 21-year-old Jasmine Harrison from Thirsk completed her bid to become the youngest female to row across the Atlantic. She completed the 3,000-mile journey in 70 days, three hours and 48 minutes, event organisers, Atlantic Campaigns, said. Jasmine set off from La Gomera in the Canary Islands on Saturday, December 12 and arrived on Saturday, February 20, into Antigua in the West Indies. Reflecting on her triumph, she said: “It’s the best experience a young person could ever want or have. “I would do it again but at the same time I would rather have other people regardless of age doing it so if I have inspired some one out there – I’m happy!”

The Wild: How to help monarch butterflies from going extinct

Hello readers of The Wild. I first saw tightly packed ribbons of orange and black monarch butterflies in eucalyptus trees on a bluff in Goleta, Calif., decades ago. Sunlight illuminated the grove where I was standing and almost immediately, wings started to open and flutter. The butterflies resembled one collective organism slowly coming to life. I was dumbfounded by their wild beauty. These days, fewer people may have this experience. The population of migrating Western monarchs that once traveled between Baja, Mexico, and Northern California is perilously close to collapsing. Five years ago, 28,000 butterflies migrated through the Monarch Butterfly Grove in Pismo Beach. In 2020, just 200 monarchs were counted by volunteers.

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