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Climate Change

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Play/Effect: Place this card on top of any SPECIES card to immediately remove. In the same action, the EVENT card then moves to an adjacent SPECIES card. A game of rock-paper-scissors determines whether this card is also discarded. Continue moving the EVENT card and removing SPECIES cards until you lose. Card can only be played once per game.

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Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years). Climate change may refer to a change in average weather conditions, or in the time variation of weather around longer-term average conditions (i.e., more or fewer extreme […] read more

Illegal Poaching

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Play: Place this card on any SPECIES cards of forest or grassland terrain AND scale of 6 or higher.

Effect: The played SPECIES card is discarded.

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Poaching has traditionally been defined as the illegal hunting, killing, or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights.[1][2][3][4][5] Until the 20th century, mostly impoverished peasants poached for subsistence purposes, thus supplementing meager diets.[6] By contrast, stealing domestic animals (as in cattle raiding, for example) classifies as theft, not as poaching.[7] Since the […] read more

Littering

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Play: Place this card on any free spot on the table, compatible with forest or grassland.
Effect: No other cards can be placed adjacent to this card.

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Litter consists of waste products that have been disposed improperly, without consent, at an inappropriate location. Litter can also be used as a verb. To litter means to throw (often man-made) objects onto the ground and leave them indefinitely or for others to dispose of as opposed to disposing of them properly. Larger hazardous items […] read more

Plant Disease

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Play: Place this card on any forest or grassland based SPECIES card.
Effect: The SPECIES is IMMEDIATELY discarded.

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Plant pathology (also phytopathology) is the scientific study of diseases in plants caused by pathogens (infectious organisms) and environmental conditions (physiological factors).[1] Organisms that cause infectious disease include fungi, oomycetes, bacteria, viruses, viroids, virus-like organisms, phytoplasmas, protozoa, nematodes and parasitic plants. Not included are ectoparasites like insects, mites, vertebrate, or other pests that affect plant […] read more

Pipeline Oil Spill

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Play: Place this card on any ocean or freshwater based SPECIES card.
Effect: The SPECIES card is IMMEDIATELY discarded.

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Graphic by Aaron Kgo.vsb.bc.ca/schools/uhe/
It is uncertain when the first crude oil pipeline was built. Credit for the development of pipeline transport is disputed, with competing claims for Vladimir Shukhov and the Branobel company in the late 19th century, and the Oil Transport Association, which first constructed a 2-inch (51 mm) wrought iron pipeline over a 6-mile (9.7 km) track from […] read more

Animal Disease

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Play: Place this card on any animal or bird SPECIES card.
Effect: The SPECIES card is IMMEDIATELY discarded.

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