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By Matthew Cimitile, Amanda Demopoulos, and Christina Kellogg
Above: Some of the team members from the third 2009 DISCOVRE cruise. The science crew contains an interdisciplinary group of researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. Kneeling (left to right): Mi...
The sluggish recovery of the southern sea otter of California, a threatened population on the Endangered Species list, appears to have stalled once again.
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists say the latest 3-year running average (2,813 sea otters) was 0.5-percent lower than last year, the firs...
But you can’t stop something so terrible from happening if you don’t know about it or know why you should even care.
An estimated 100,000,000 sharks were killed last year – primarily for their fins. Indeed, their populations are down to critical levels and they are still being fished out of the oce...
Reserva Biológica Tirimbina (RBT) is located in Sarapiqui a scant 15 km from one of the most studied reserves in the world, La Selva Biological Station. This station claims more than 45 years of study and produces two scientific articles each week. From the proximity, one would expect not to find gr...
Now that The Cove - the documentary about dolphin slaughtering in Japan - has officially rolled out to most U.S. cities, people's awareness about dolphins' precarious position on this planet has risen to new levels.
Films like this are incredible in that they can literally shock viewers into action...
All over the world more than 10,000 animal species are in danger. Some are in danger because their homes are being destroyed. Many are in danger because people hunt them. Among these are the manatees.
Manatees are gentle creatures that some call Sea Cows.
Their Falling Numbers!!Florida Manatees ar...
1. Support international shark fisheries’ management and conservation efforts.
2. Contact your local government representative. Demand that shark management and conservation efforts become a priority.
3. Support organizations, like Project AWARE, which are engaged in ocean conservation efforts.
4...
By Brandon KeimFebruary 24, 2009Rather than relying on warm, fuzzy feelings to protect animals, conservationists suggest appealing to something more reliable: greed.
By selling financial contracts pegged to species health, the government could create a market in the future of threatened animals, ma...
Please join hundreds of wildlife advocates who are walking to support our native animals on Sunday, May 3 at Zuma Beach, Malibu.
The money raised from CWC Walk on the Wild Side® will go directly to funding the free services and programs CWC provides, including paramedic rescue and rehabilitation fo...
20-03-2009
A new report based on 40 years of data analysed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey, state government wildlife agencies, and non-governmental organizations including Audubon (BirdLife in the USA), shows that birds are sending an important and troubling message a...
Amidst worldwide protest and controversy, Canada’s shameful annual massacre of 300,000 baby harp seals began today. Mass killings are underway in the Saint Lawrence Gulf and will soon expand to Newfoundland. Canada’s seal hunt (if you can call bludgeoning defenseless baby animals to death “hunting”)...
Source ABC, October 29, 2008Frogs and salamanders are disappearing in Yellowstone National Park and researchers at Stanford blame their decline on global warming. These amphibious indicators of the environment are the kind of discovery that, for a Ph.D. candidate, can be the makings of a career. So,...
By Laura Tull
Stingrays are fascinating animals, brought to the attention of the media by a true accident with the death of Steve Irwin, and by recent discoveries of Giant Stingray's in Thailand. Though related to the sharks they are not as aggressive and are not prone to attack humans. They are ne...
February 23, 2009 09:00 AM - WWF
Perth, Australia - Nine out of 10 marine species found off Australia’s south-west coast are found nowhere else on earth but less than one per cent of this globally significant region is protected.
A new report found a series of globally significant “hotspots” for m...
Scientists find new creatures of Australian deep reported, Sydney (AFP) Jan 18, 2009
A joint US-Australian team spent a month in deep waters off the coast of the southern island of Tasmania to "search for life deeper than any previous voyage in Australian waters," lead researcher Ron Thresher said....
The Canadian government is being sued by environmentalists demanding they use the countries' Species at Risk Act to protect killer whales off British Columbia. Ecojustice, on behalf of 8 environmental groups recently filed the suit to force officials to use the legislation to safequard the habitat o...
In 1973, President Nixon passed the Endangered Species Act in an attempt to curb the extinction of large groups of animals based on the Congress' findings that "...various species of fish, wildlife, and plants in the United States have been rendered extinct as a consequence of economic growth and de...
Wildlife-Conservation Society and Republic of Congo said new census counted 125,000 newly discovered gorillas. Western lowland gorillas were believed to have been reduced by 50% due to hunting and disease.
Primatologists in Edinburgh, Scotland warn that nearly half of the world's 634 types of prima...
