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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 12 SEPTEMBER 2021 9 ALMANAC Nature Notebook 779. Common Stingray ALTHOUGH sharks are reported around our shores every year, you wouldn't exactly label our coastal waters shark infested. But there's one 'shark' that is quite regular and even common in some areas, and that's the stingray. Admittedly, stingrays look nothing like sharks – they are flat, generally diamond-shaped, no tell-tale shark fin, and sport a long thin tapering tail – but despite looks, stingrays and sharks are closely related. Several species occur in Maltese waters, although the most common by far is the common stingray (M. boll komuni). Stingrays are peaceful creatures who like nothing better than to snuffle slowly along sandy beds (sometimes in just 2m of wa- ter) sucking up worms and other bottom-dwelling creatures. Unfor- tunately, trigger-happy harpooners rarely resist these slow-moving targets. Victor Falzon, Ray Galea www.birdlifemalta.org Green idea of the week 671: Download the online publication of the new Meat Atlas using the website https://friendsoftheearth.eu/ publication/meatatlas-2021/. Meat Atlas The Meat Atlas is a joint publication by Friends of the Earth Eu- rope, Boell Stiftung and BUND which will be published on Tues- day 7th September. It is comprised of more than 60 articles that explore the problems associated with industrial animal farming, as well as global meat consumption, focusing on existing facts and data. These issues involve the possible impacts on biodiversity, human rights, and the fact that they are one of the main drivers of climate change due to the greenhouse gas emissions these ac- tivities release. Visit Friends of the Earth's website for more information about our work, as well as information about how to join us. You can also support us by sending us a donation – www.foemalta.org/donate Appster Smartphone fun and smarter work Agenda FREE Apple, Andriod Agenda's unique approach of organizing notes into a timeline helps to drive your projects forward. While other apps focus specifically on the past, present, or future, Agenda is the only note taking app that tracks them all at once, giving you the complete picture. TECH RETAILERS contact afarrugia@ mediatoday. com.mt A GOOD WEEK FOR Good Week/Bad Week Don't miss this A BAD WEEK FOR Banda Trakadum Date: 16 October Place: Ivy House Malta, Triq Tunis, Pembroke Banda Trakadum is musical project where the beat and rhythm is the Aim. The Band is a multicultural project formed of four percusionist,( Spain,France, Latvia and Holand) a bass guitar player(Japan), a guitar player(Italy) and two singers (Uruguay and Chile). Mixing and fusion folk music from Brazil, Caribe, Latino América and Africa with some spirit of reggaes and warm music like cumbias, rumba and rock. Matrix fans. Film fans have been given their first full taste of the fourth instalment in the Matrix franchise in a trailer that reintroduces Keanu Reeves' hero Neo. The Matrix Resurrections will be released in cinemas and on the HBO Max streaming service in December. France. French film great Jean- Paul Belmondo has died at 88. Belmondo, who has died at his Paris home was the cool rebel of the new wave of French cinema typified in Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 film classic, A Bout de Souffle. The original Matrix movie came out in 1999, and the first two sequels were both released in 2003 Jean-Paul Belmondo was born in Neuilly-sur- Seine, a suburb of Paris Give nature a voice. Become a BirdLife member