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31 January 2006
A WWF-led effort to support sustainable fisheries has resulted in hree ecologically-important deep sea gaining protection off the waters of Italy, Cyprus and Egypt, following a recent decision by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM). |
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31 January 2006
MARRA, a bottlenosed dolphin, struck out for the open sea and an unexpected rendezvous with a “mate” last night, after rescuers freed it from its self-imposed captivity, reports The Times (UK) |
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30 January 2006
Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases may have more serious impacts than previously believed, a major new scientific report has said. The report, published by the UK government, says there is only a small chance of greenhouse gas emissions being kept below "dangerous" levels. |
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29 January 2006
After seven weeks at sea opposing the Japanese whale killing, the Sea Shepherd flagship. ‘Farley Mowat’, arrived at Cape Town on Tuesday (24th). On Wednesday (25th); the ship, Captain Paul Watson and some of the crew were detained indefinitely |
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28 January 2006
Hurricane Rita's pounding waves and a hotter-than-usual Gulf of Mexico took a toll on the Gulf of Mexico's only government-protected coral reefs about 100 miles off the Louisiana and Texas coasts, reports the AP News Agency |
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27 January 2006
A collision between a berthing ship and its tugboat yesterday brought emergency crews rushing to clean up 2,600 gallons of fuel oil that fouled mangroves near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef after two vessels collided, officials said today. |
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27 January 2006
THE whale that died in the Thames was trying to return to the Atlantic Ocean, scientists said yesterday. She was unable to survive in the Thames because she had been unable to eat for at least three days, and as a consequence suffered from severe dehydration, reports The Times (UK) |
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26 January 2006
Three world-class oceanographic research institutions yesterday announced a collaboration to conduct a global census of coral reef ecosystems aimed at estimating the numbers of reef species and determining their vulnerability to human stressors. |
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25 January 2006
A major motion picture based on the life of Sea Shepherd founder Captain Paul Watson is in pre-production with shooting slated to begin in August of this year in and around the Cape Town area. The film is being produced by Pieter Kroonenburg of Kingsborough Pictures, which is based in Beverly Hills, CA. |
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25 January 2006
Costs of safeguarding the world's fast-disappearing coral reefs and mangroves are small compared to the benefits they provide from tourism to fisheries, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said yesterday. |
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24 January 2006
Whale sharks, the world's largest fish, are getting smaller, according to researchers. They say that over the last decade, the average size of whale sharks spotted off the Australian coast has shrunk by 2m to a truncated 5m in length, reports BBC News |
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23 January 2006
A huge beached whale has been dumped outside the Japanese embassy in Berlin in a Greenpeace anti-whaling protest. The controversial environmental activists hauled the fin whale to Berlin from the Baltic coast after finding it beached on a sandbank. |
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22 January 2006
A whale that became stranded in the River Thames has died after a massive rescue attempt to save its life. The 18ft (5m) northern bottle-nosed whale was first spotted in the river on Friday and rescuers began an attempt to save it on Saturday morning. |
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22 January 2006
WWF, the global conservation organisation, has grave concerns following yesterday's announcements at the AP6 meeting in Sydney that the Howard Government is willing to accept runaway climate change. |
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21 January 2006
Two Greenpeace ships that have been harassing Japan’s whaling fleet in Antarctic waters for more than three weeks have abandoned their chase and are returning to South Africa, the organisation said today. |
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20 January 2006
The latest health report on the Great Barrier Reef by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) shows COTS, cyclones and to a lesser extent bleaching and disease, have been the most significant causes of damage over the last 20 years.
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19 January 2006
With the fragile ecology of coral reefs around the globe increasingly under pressure, scientists on Australia's Great Barrier Reef are establishing a network of sensors to better understand this beautiful part of the underwater world. The Australian Institute of Marine Science (Aims) is working with James Cook University on a project called Digital Skins.
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18 January 2006
A Greenpeace activist was dragged into the sea by a Japanese whaler's harpoon line late Saturday, the group says. The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise has been chasing the Japanese whaling fleet in tandem with the Sea Shepherd vessel Farley Mowat |
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17 January 2006
The remote 1,400-mile long string of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are blanketed with the 14 million seabirds that nest there. Beneath the surface of the surrounding waters, fish crowd into pristine coral reefs. |
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16 January 2006
More than 100 dead and dying sea turtles have washed up on the beaches of El Salvador in the last 10 days, and marine biologists can't explain what is killing them, officials said Friday. Celina Dueńas, an official with El Salvador's Environment Ministry, said it was feared that the number of dead turtles could rise to 600 in the coming days. |
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15 January 2006
Overfishing and destructive methods, such as cyanide and blast fishing, continue to threaten the health of coral reefs in Aceh, the epicentre of the fourth largest earthquake in history, according to a comprehensive report released today by Reef Check, the global coral reef conservation organization. |
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14 January 2006
It is a hot battle in one of the world's coldest places, but the real heat is not in the confrontation between Japanese whalers and environmentalists or even the warm cetacean blood spilt for supposed research. The crucial heat is in the three-way struggle to harpoon public opinion. |
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13 January 2006
Sarah Whiley suffered unimaginable pain when she was killed by a pack of sharks off the eastern Australian coast last weekend. The 21-year-old university student was savaged in shallow water on North Stradbroke Island, east of Brisbane. Her death has sparked a fresh debate in Australia about shark safety programmes. |
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12 January 2006
Ancient fishing chants, many of which hadn’t been performed in more than 50 years, and a lavish feast of local delicacies - clams, seaweeds, taro leaves, mangoes, guavas, coconuts and pineapples - were prepared over days for villagers and visitors alike. |
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11 January 2006
A radical green group is set to escalate violent protests against whaling ships in Antarctic waters as Japan considers calling in a police air escort. The Japanese proposal could involve Japanese Maritime Police Agency planes refuelling in Australia to shadow Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean... |
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10 January 2006
Anti-whaling activists in Antarctica claim to have deliberately collided with a supply vessel of the Japanese whaling fleet. Paul Watson, leader of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, says his ship, Farley Mowat, "sideswiped" the tanker Oriental Bluebird at 1.30pm Monday. |
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09 January 2006
New research has shown that marine reserves give a boost to coral reefs as well as fish stocks according to the journal Science. Scientists had been concerned that large fish returning to protected areas of the Caribbean could disturb the delicate balance of reefs. |
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08 January 2006
Greenpeace activists and Japanese whaling ships have resumed their battle in the mountainous waters of Antarctica after 10 days of enforced peace. Greenpeace said two of its Zodiac inflatable raft crews from its ship, the Esperanza, had placed themselves between whales and harpooners in freezing conditions south of Australia's Heard Island territory. |
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07 January 2006
Amid the impenetrable maze of tidal creeks and channels between India and Bangladesh, children shriek with delight as grey snouts emerge from the silty waters. “Susu,” they cry, mimicking the noise the freshwater dolphins make as they surface for air — but their joy may be shortlived. |
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06 January 2006
Last week's great white shark sighting off Haleiwa is getting national attention and so is the videographer behind the images. Jimmy Hall has become a wanted man since sharing his story with us last Friday, but he wouldn't have it any other way. Hall says this incredible encounter is providing him with an incredible opportunity to educate. |
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05 January 2006
Deep sea fish species in the northern Atlantic are on the brink of extinction, new research suggests. Canadian scientists studied five deep water species including hake and eel. Writing in the journal Nature, they say that some populations have plummeted by 98% in a generation, meeting the definition of 'critically endangered'. |
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04 January 2006
Marine turtles have been part of our ocean life for more than 100 million years and have played an important role in the lives of Pacific people.
The question that may well be asked now is, how much longer can they remain with us? Current research suggests that the past 50 years have seen a marked decrease in the turtle population in the Pacific Island region. |
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03 January 2006
It is among the most inaccessible of habitats and supports some of Britain's rarest, most outlandish species. Yet conservationists remain uncertain about the plants, animals, and other marine life surviving in the seabeds around Scotland because of the difficulties in reaching the area. |
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02 January 2006
Wildlife officers shot 41 pilot whales that beached on New Zealand's South Island, the Department of Conservation said. A total of 49 whales came ashore Saturday near Farewell Spit in the second major stranding in the area within two weeks. Eight died on the beaches and the remaining animals were shot when heavy seas prevented any attempt to refloat them. |
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01 January 2006
Scientists are stumped about why thousands of rare seabirds are suddenly being spotted on land in Northern California. The small birds, called red phalaropes, live many miles off the Pacific coast and usually only land in the Arctic, where they breed and raise their young. |
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01 January 2006
Gregory Stone was on a diving expedition off Fiji on December 26, 2004, when the first sketchy reports reached his ship about the undersea earthquake that had spawned a catastrophic tsunami in South Asia. Amid his horror over the human toll, another thought quickly formed in the scientist's mind... |
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01 January 2006
Endangered turtles have been hatching early in heatwave conditions at south-east Queensland's Mon Repos rookery near Bundaberg, a marine researcher said today. Dr Col Limpus said temperatures in the mid to high 30s have prompted about five clutches of loggerhead turtles to dig their way to the surface of the warm sand a week early. |
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