Warehouse Are Not Selling Fireworks

The Warehouse, will no longer sell fireworks to the public as it doesn’t reflect the company’s values.
The company said research showed more than half of their customers preferred public fireworks displays over home celebrations. The research also found that nearly a third did not use fireworks at all.
The Warehouse said that they had listened to the community, and without ongoing sustainability efforts, fireworks had no place in its stores.
Animal welfare charity SAFE applauded the decision. Fireworks can cause animals psychological and physical harm, and they hope other retailers would follow The Warehouse’s example.
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Asteroid Completes 23 Million Year Journey

Astronomers have uncovered fragments of a 1.83m-wide asteroid that struck Botswana in 2018. 23 pieces of the asteroid were found in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve. The astronomers believe that the asteroid took just under 23 million years to get here and after studying the fragments, they believe to have come from our solar system’s asteroid belt. The fragments come from an asteroid that astronomers at the University of Arizona saw in the early hours of June 2, 2018 as it was approaching Earth. A few hours later, the 1.83m-wide space rock – named 2018 LA – caught fire at a blistering 60,000 kilometre per hour. It broke into tiny fragments that rained down across Botswana. This was only the second time astronomers have spotted an asteroid in space before it hit Earth.

Turtle Returned To Hapū

A 350kg turtle, which was found dead on a Canterbury beach last year, has been returned to its hapū.
Last year, the leather-back turtle was returned to Te Rūnanga o Koukourarata and last week a burial ceremony was held on Horomaka Island.
The critically endangered leather-back turtle, or honu, washed up dead in Banks Peninsula in March 2019.
It was initially transported to Te Papa in Wellington. But after consultations with DOC and Koukourārata rūnanga it was returned.
Documents show more than $12,000 was spent by DOC and Te Papa on transportation and a burial ceremony.
Te Papa wanted it for research purposes. the plan had been to keep its skeleton to help identify fossil bones. It would also potentially display it.

Travel Bubble To The Cook Islands

The government has announced a travel bubble will start with the Cook Islands on the 17th May. The move will allow two-way quarantine-free travel between both countries. Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern made the announcement 3 days ago.
To ensure safety, New Zealand will be providing the Cook Islands with enough vaccine to immunize its population. This will start later this month.There will be no requirement for a pre-departure Covid-19 test. 
However, travelers will have to provide a health declaration and there will be random health checks at airports.
No one should travel if they are unwell, if they are waiting on a Covid-19 test, or if they have been in contact with anyone suspected to have Covid-19

Memes For Sale

One of the worlds most popular memes have been sold for $500,000. The meme that took the media wild was known as burning house, featuring a young girl named Zoe Roth.  The meme was created back in 2005 when Roth was 4 years old. Her family went to look at a house on fire in their neighborhood in North Carolina.
Firefighters had intentionally set the blaze as a controlled fire, so it wasn’t a major incident. Roth remembers watching the flames burn when her father (an amateur photographer) asked her to smile. Now, after more than a decade of having her image all around the internet Roth has sold the meme for $500,00. She has sold it as a non fungible token, or NFT. She plans to use the money to help her pay her way through college.