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Karen Eckert, executive director of WIDECAST, is one of 40 leading conservationists to be featured in the book Wildlife Heroes, written by Julia Scardina and Jeff Flocken.More
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In a paper published in a recent issue of Marine Policy, Rainer Froese, project leader and coordinator of FishBase, and a colleague present a legal review of international treaties to derive sound definitions of overfishing.More
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Jurgenne Primavera, scientist emerita at the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development, participated in an event sponsored by the Philippine organization, The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service (TOWNS), aimed at delivering reliable, significant, and practical information to local government units for better preparedness against natural calamities.More
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Peter Mumby of the University of Queensland, Bob Steneck of the University of Maine, and Nancy Knowlton of the Smithsonian Institution each gave presentations at the Teasley Symposium held recently at the Georgia Institute of Technology.More
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In an article published recently on ClimateWire Tim McClanahan, a zoologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, discusses what happened in Kenya during the spring of 1998 as being a wake-up call. Between March and July of that year, a rare climatological double whammy sent ocean temperatures spiking 1 to 2 degrees Celsius above the normal range for spring and summer.More
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In a commentary published in the 2 April 2012 issue of The Huffington Post, Carl Safina, president of the Blue Ocean Institute, discusses Nat Geo’s new TV Show, Wicked Tuna, which recently aired its first episode.More
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Alan White, senior scientist at The Nature Conservancy, is one of three authors on a report that assesses the needs and interests of the six Coral Triangle Countries and Implementation Partners (governments, NGOs, scientists) regarding technical support required for integrating fisheries, biodiversity, and climate change objectives into resilient MPA network design at regional, national, subnational, and ecoregional scales in the Coral Triangle.More
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An article published in the March/April 2012 issue of MPA News discusses what needs to be done to reach the UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD’s) 10 percent target for global MPA coverage.More
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In a recent episode of La Hora, Patricia Majluf discusses her new role as vice minister of fisheries and fisheries management in Peru.More
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Les Kaufman, professor at Boston University and senior principle investigator at Conservation International, is in Brazil to study the unique marine habitats of the Abrolhos Shelf.More
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Climate change alone could reduce the economic value of key ocean services by up to $2 trillion a year by 2100, a new report shows—but so many threats are converging on the oceans at once, that a global, integrated approach is urgently needed.More
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In a commentary published in the 21 March 2012 issue of The Globe and Mail, Rashid Sumaila, director of the Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia, writes “Recent news that retired fisheries biologist Otto Langer obtained documents revealing planned changes to the (Canadian) federal Fisheries Act has sent ripples through the fisheries research community.More
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From March 18 to April 7, Steve Palumbi, director of Hopkins Marine Station at Stanford University, will lead a team of researchers to American Samoa, Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, and Aitutaki, a small island north of Rarotonga, in search of ways to better protect coral reefs from the devastating effects of increasing ocean temperature caused by climate change.More
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A study by Ben Sullivan, a scientist at the RSPB and BirdLife International, and others has found that seabirds, including albatrosses and penguins, are in more trouble than any other group of birds.More
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The population of the world’s smallest and rarest dolphins has dropped by half in the past seven years to an estimated 55 individuals, according to research by Scott Baker, professor of fisheries at Oregon State University, and colleagues released March 13.More
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