Well, today I visited as store in Chinatown. I found some really cool specimens for the kids. The specimens are all used in traditional medicine dating back thousands of years.
Specimens - Sea butterfly, seahorse, cuttle fish bone, octopus, gecko, Rashi and white fungus, and 3 varieties of seaweed - black, green and purple in color.
Now the fun part of correct labeling & display.
I also have to make sure the teachers and kids have the ability to pick them up while making it impossible for little bug creatures to feast on them. Hummm should be interesting.
While in the shop I asked the young shop keeper about shark products. I was VERY pleased to hear that shark fins and other products are in much lower demand as North American's become educated about the inhumane harvesting and over fishing of these creatures.
So - education works!
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