I think who taught us not to pollute was woodsy the owl and maybe Smokey Bear.

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  1. in the uk we had hedgehogs and a crippled kid that got hit by a car bc they didn’t look both ways

  2. Only one I can think of right now is “Simi Sicherli” which was a mascot in early primary school that taught you basic road rules and how to cross roads safely.

  6. Nope. We are simply told not to and why. With the littering in forests example, they might appeal to all the cute animals we could hurt, but there are no mascots. Mascots just aren’t a big thing in Denmark

  7. I don’t remember anything like that. We just learned it the normal way from a teacher.

    I mean the most important “forest” lesson we learned was how to act when we found a WW2 grenade or unexploded bomb in the woods. Can’t imagine what “mascot” they could have used for that. Stumpy the one armed kid who picked up a grenade?

  11. We have the ladybug as a symbol against ‘senseless violence’.

    Kind of ironic, since they are quite the voracious little predators.

  12. We had a big red elephant called Welephant who taught us fire safety…his motto was “matches matches never touch, they can hurt you very much”. This was the 90s, I don’t know if Welephant is still a thing.

  14. Yes! The emergency services has a mascot whom I have been acquainted with. His name is Flammy and is a monkey. Every Easter he would hand out batteries and candy to kids and remember them to make sure their fire alarm works.

    Edit: if I remember correctly they sent out comic books with Flammy and his escapades. I never read them but I think I have some of the old comic books here at home.

  17. Tufty the red squirrel and his friends taught small children about road safety in the 1970s.

    For slightly older kids, we had the Green Cross Code Man – a super hero played by the man inside the Darth Vader suit – teaching us how to cross the road.

    Then there was an incomprehensible cartoon cat called Charlie, who’s owner translated his words of wisdom on all sorts of safety matters.

    And then we get into the extraordinary world of the Public Information Film, in which child actors drowned, were electrocuted, or maimed by farm machinery.

  18. In Australia (we’re in Eurovision so we count, right?) we have a huge skin cancer problem due to the sun and our position on the planet or something.

    In the 90s we had a seagull teach us to ‘[Slip Slop and Slap](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b7nocIenCYg) – Slip on a shirt, Slop on some sunscreen and Slap on a hat’. There was a very catchy song that I can still remember 30 years later.

    Now it’s been updated to ‘[Slip Slop Slap Seek Slide](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy6_csWyYL4)’ with the addition of Seek some shade and Slide on some sunnies.

  21. I don’t really remember anything like that and frankly I don’t think it’d go over that well. We’ve often made fun of american mascots and how absurd and overused they are 😀

  22. There’s a seagull that tells us not to throw garbage and plastic in the sea and on the beach. It’s also kind of a meme

  23. Any kind of mascot that existed was very short-lived and none were iconic.

    I remember when I was in 3rd grade there was a contest to draw a mascot for a water-saving campaign.

    I’m pretty sure it ended up just being a sentient water droplet.
    But that’s it, no actual costumes, just some water droplet telling kids to save water in a pamphlet.

    We did have the police come to school and tell us what to do if we found a syringe lying about. There was a huge heroin crisis in the country.

    Don’t worry, it boiled down to DON’T TOUCH IT, CALL AN ADULT. if you accidentally got pricked REALLY TELL AN ADULT.

  24. For several decades, *Skogsmulle* was a troll-like character (originating in the 1950’s) that visited pre-schools and kindergartens and taught children how to both survive of roots and edible plants in an emergency, and also how to act and behave in nature, including not to leaving trash, nor causing lasting damage to trees, moss, etc… and also how to make fire in a safe manner.

    —

    There’s a quite long Swedish Wikipedia-page, but none in English, so here’s the Swedish one through Google Translate (with expected bad grammar and translation mistakes)

    https://sv-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Skogsmulle?_x_tr_sl=sv&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=sv&_x_tr_pto=wapp

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