Scuba Diver Girl Anna | July 26, 2010
By Sea Turtle Restoration Project, seaturtles.org Make a Difference Today ORDER NOW! You can become a steward of the environment by adopting a nest of sea turtle hatchlings! The Adopt A Nest Program is tax deductible, and makes a wonderful gift or classroom project. $45 for addresses within the U.S., $55 outside the [...]
Scuba Diver Girl Anna | July 26, 2010
By Salvatore Cardoni, takepart.com There’s a predator in Florida’s warm waters. No, it’s not a BP tar ball or even a man-eating shark, though it is a killer. Meet Vibrio vulnificus—the deadly bacteria that has sickened 138 and killed 31 people since 2005. The little-known virus predominantly infects the “open wounds of beachgoers and incites [...]
Scuba Diver Girl Anna | July 22, 2010
By Sea Turtle Restoration Project, seaturtles.org A plan to protect endangered false killer whales from being killed or injured in the Hawai‘ian longline fishery for tuna and swordfish calls for modifications in fishing gear, no-fishing areas, more observers on fishing vessels and a number of voluntary crew training measures. The Take Reduction Plan resulted from [...]
Scuba Diver Girl Anna | July 22, 2010
By Jon Bowermaster, Takepart.com If you think the long-term impact of the Deepwater Horizon explosion is going to be harmful on countless fronts, wait until the ocean floor is harvested for copper, nickel, gold, silver, cobalt and other minerals a mile below the surface. If the Chinese have their way, that’s just what is about [...]
Scuba Diver Girl Anna | July 22, 2010
By Shark Savers, sharksavers.org Raja Ampat in Eastern Indonesia is one of the most biodiverse ocean environments on earth, but its shark populations have been ravaged and its manta populations are now under siege. Shark Savers is working with the Misool Eco Resort, Conservation International’s Indonesia Marine Program, WildAid, and other NGOs and ecotourism companies on a proposal [...]
Scuba Diver Girl Anna | July 20, 2010
By Sea Turtle Restoration Project We are all starting to feel the effects of global warming with increased hurricanes in the South, heat waves in the West and just more intense and crazier weather patterns around the globe. Due to the unique natural history of sea turtles, the impacts of global warming are likely to [...]
Scuba Diver Girl Anna | July 20, 2010
By Salvatore Cardoni, Takepart.com Scientists have parted the Red Sea—and they don’t like what they’ve found. Using CT scans, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have discovered that global warming is slowly eroding one of the Red Sea’s most prized underwater beauties—coral reefs. In simple terms, carbon dioxide-induced surface temperatures have warmed the waters [...]
Scuba Diver Girl Anna | July 20, 2010
By Ben Murray, Takepart.com Call it the dolphin ER. Situated in the middle of the Pacific on the big island of Hawaii, with a tank full of water and a group of trained staff members on call, the Hawaii Cetacean Rehabilitation Facility is a new health center that specializes in ocean-going species. Cetaceans—that is, dolphins, whales [...]
Scuba Diver Girl Anna | July 20, 2010
By Ben Murray, Takepart.com The horrors of the wasteful practice of shark finning (cutting off the fins of sharks to use for soup) are well-documented and oft-condemned. New images from a Japanese fish dock may reignite furor against the habit. Two London newspapers, the Daily Mail and the Sun, on Tuesday posted shocking images they say [...]
Scuba Diver Girl Anna | July 13, 2010
By Sea Turtle Restoration Project Contact: Carole Allen, Gulf Director, 281-444-0564, Carole@seaturtles.org Chris Pincetich, Campaigner and marine biologist, 530-220-3687 chris@seaturtles.org Shrimp season opening in Texas on July 15 – Enforcement of Turtle Excluder Devices in shrimp boats critical to protecting Kemp’s ridleys from capture Galveston, Texas Sea Turtle Restoration Project has announced that a [...]
