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The use of sonar is controversial because of its harmful effects on marinelife such as whales. Meanwhile, the Navy is also asking NMFS to allow incidental harm and fatalities to marine mammals from training exercises in a 122,400-square-mile section of the Pacific Ocean off the Northwest coast.
Marinelife. The protection of marine animals may fall under "environmentalism," but these are artificial divisions. Here's a short opinion piece on plastics and marinelife. Tags: oceans marinelife environment plastic. And who ingests them?
The group is called Seal Sitters and they protect baby seals who have been left on the each while their moms fish. Tags: seattle animal rescue marinelife seals. It's a nice story to offset the cruelty of the dead baby tiger in Hanoi.
When you add the roughly 335,000 square-mile-area in the Pacific that is now protected from virtually all fishing to the nearly 700,000 square miles he closed to bottom trawling, the most destructive kind of fishing gear, this president has given future generations an ocean gift nearly the size of Texas and Alaska combined.
They are now protected by Taputeranga Marine Reserve , a marine reserve created in 2008 and to protectmarinelife around Wellington. I’ve spoken before about the positive impacts marine reserves are having around New Zealand, so it is nice to have one around here.
Yesterday, I contributed to People for Puget Sound , a local organization that works on protection of Puget Sound and the Northwest Straits. We live in Seattle and I think it's very important to remember our oceans and the life that reside there. Tags: oceans marinelife donations charities nonprofits.
Featured image – Photo in “Bird-lore” by the National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals). That last bit of knowledge was shared by a pilot with a gift for understatement. And, I hear that the night sky is worth it! For more info – Dry Tortugas Bird Checklist.
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It's in response to the pathetic CITES conference which basically screwed marine animal protection. The Christian Science Monitor rightly points out that citizens and consumers need to get involved in endangered species protection, because at the CITES level, it's all about money and international politics.
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