Thursday, November 8, 2012

GotMercury.org Gets Cooperation From Supermarket: testing seafood in two month pilot program

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  It has been some time since I mentioned the GotMercury organization.  But that is not to say that they have not been busy.  This is an ...
Monday, November 5, 2012

Environmental Leadership: some, but not enough, are looking to the future

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On the eve of the U.S. presidential election, I thought I would share a little observation I heard that reinforced my feelings regarding...
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Sunday, November 4, 2012

Pacific Shark Populations In Decline: new study provides hard numbers on pelagic species

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The results of a recent study published in Conservation Biology paints a disturbing picture of ongoing decline of sharks in the Pacific O...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Shark Repellent: a new study indicates visual cues could be a deterrent

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As a follow up to my post this past Sunday on the Australian government's attempts to control white sharks off the Western Australian...
Monday, October 29, 2012

Underwater Eden: new book explores the Phoenix Island Protected Area

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The Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) came into existence in 2006.  It was, at the time, the largest marine protected area in the wor...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

Sharks At Risk In Australia: tagged sharks may be victims of Western Australia hysteria

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Researchers in Australia are trying their best to foster calm and rational thinking in the wake of five fatalities in Western Australia du...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Ocean Acidifcation: Center for Biological Diversity initiates new campaign

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Ocean acidification is garnering more and more attention within the ocean conservation community.  And well it should.  It was only a few ...
Monday, October 22, 2012

Orca Goes To Court: Free Morgan campaign to release captive marine mammal

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At the recent BLUE Ocean Film Festival , I had the opportunity to learn about Morgan, a female orca that was found alone and in poor healt...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Making Waves in the Rockies: Colorado Ocean Coalition holds ocean symposium/film festival

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This weekend, October 20-21, the Colorado Ocean Coalition will be holding its Making Waves ocean conservation event in Boulder, CO.  On ...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Pricing Ecosystem Services: can conservation be achieved through economic values?

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Came across an interesting article in UK's The Guardian, What's Wrong With Putting a Price on Nature? , that addressed the concept...