| |
| |
| |
|
|
| |
ENDANGERED SEA TURTLES |
|
| |
(06-11-09) Six of the seven species of marine turtles are listed as Endangered or Critically Endangered, and the outlook is increasingly grim. In the Pacific, leatherbacks are heading for extinction, fast, and in the Mediterranean, green turtle numbers have plummeted. >>
|
|
| |
Text: Guadalupe Romero
With reports of WWF, NOAA Fisheries y FWC Marine Turtles |
|
| |
|
| |
| |
| |
|
|
| |
the SHARK AUTUMN |
|
| |
(30-10-09) The international marine conservation organization Oceana presents an awareness campaign to protect eleven endangered Spanish species of sharks. The campaign will have informative material, collecting of signatures, lectures and it will be developed in nine aquariums in Spain during November and December. >>
|
|
| |
|
|
Text:
Marta Madina / Oceana |
| |
|
| |
| |
| |
|
|
| |
Bluefin tuna and sharks protection |
|
| |
|
|
| |
(17-10-09) The United States and EU lead the way on bluefin tuna and sharks protection. That’s an important effort to guarantee the survival not only of this endangered species, but also of the long term economic activity that depends on them. >>
|
|
| |
Text:
Marta Madina |
|
| |
|
| |
| |
| |
|
|
| |
Solution for anchovy crisis |
|
| |
(13-10-09) Anchovy crisis in the Cantabrian Sea can be solved in three years if scientists from Spanish Institute of Oceanography get to breed an anchovy in captivity. It will have the essential characteristics to get a high-quality anchovy. >>
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
Text:
MWN / agencias |
| |
|
| |
| |
| |
|
|
| |
the ocean
sounds |
|
| |
(05-10-09)
Sonar, ships and geologic exploration are making
more noise in the ocean. Sound travels thousands of times farther
than light in water, and many marine animals rely on sound
for navigating, hunting, mating and keeping the family together. >> |
|
| |
|
|
| |
Text: David Tenenbaum |
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
| |
| |
|
|
| |
TWO VERY SHY COUSINS |
|
| |
(30-09-09) Burmeister’s porpoise and La Plata dolphin are both big unknown cetaceans, endemic species from the southern coast of Argentina about what we do not know much as they are extremely shy. >> |
|
| |
|
|
| |
Text: Guadalupe Romero with information of Cethus Foundation |
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
| |
| |
|
|
| |
Innovation to save seabirds |
|
| |
(23-09-09) Unique invention from Australian team awarded international “Smart Gear Competition Grand Prize” new device is win for environment and business, holds promise for major improvements in large industrial fishing fleets while reducing seabird deaths. >> |
|
| |
Text: WWF / MWN |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
| |
| |
|
|
| |
lying snakes |
|
| |
(10-09-09)
Danish and Swedish scientists have just published a study that
shows how the sea snakes of the Indian and Pacific oceans lie
their predators by confusing them with their physical appearance. >> |
|
| |
|
|
| |
Text: Mark Montoya |
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
| |
| |
|
|
| |
the CORMORaNt diver |
|
| |
(15-07-09)
This is an aquatic bird with a very special skill: its ability
to dive. It has been demonstrated that the cormorant can
go to almost 50 meters deep down, stay under the surface
for 45 seconds and enter the water more than at 50 kilometres
per hour. >> |
|
| |
|
|
| |
Text: Guadalupe
Romero. With informatio from SEO Birdlife,
Vigo University, National Parks, UICN. |
|
| |
|
| |
| |
| |
|
|
| |
SEA HORSE IN AROUSA ISLAND |
|
| |
(02-07-09)
This is a pioneer experience in the world conducted by
scientists from CSIC: a study of the feasibility of the
sea horse born in a test tube in a natural environment.
The first ten sea horses, marked for follow-up, live in
the waters of the Ría de Arousa. >> |
|
| |
|
|
| |
Text: Juan Diego
M. Alcaraz
Photo: M. Planas / Proyecto Hippocampus |
|
| |
|
| |
| |
| |
|
|
| |
MORE PRESSURE TO THE WHALES |
|
| |
(26-06-09)
The meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC)
has not bear many fruits, in fact, it has been extremely
difficult to stop many countries that want to increase
their whale catch. The resumption of commercial whaling
on a large scale is a latent risk. >> |
|
| |
|
|
| |
Text: Guadalupe Romero |
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
| |
| |
| |
|
|
| |
SMALL CETACEANS EXTINCTION |
|
| |
(25-06-09) While persecution and slaughter of great whales attracts the attention of the world, their smaller relatives are disappearing at an unsustainable rate. According to a new WWF report, small cetaceans are dying in oceans and rivers, victims of excessive hunting, pollution and loss of their habitat. >> |
|
| |
|
|
| |
Text: Guadalupe
Romero, with information of WWF |
|
| |
|
