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         Marine Life Endangered:     more books (100)
  1. Coastal-Marine Conservation: Science and Policy by G. Carleton Ray, Jerry McCormick-Ray, 2003-07-07
  2. Marine, Freshwater, and Wetlands Biodiversity Conservation (Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation)
  3. Saving Sea Otters, Stories of Survival by Elin Kelsey, Doc White, 1999-11-15
  4. Of Manatees And Man by Douglas Faulkner, 2000-03-18
  5. Beluga Days: Tracking a White Whale's Truths by Nancy Lord, 2003-12-04
  6. Endangered and Extinct Animals of the Islands and Oceans by Michael Bright, 2002-03-01
  7. In the Company of Manatees: A Tribute by Barbara Sleeper, 2000-03-07
  8. Seal: The Extraordinary Story of One Woman's Remarkable Relationship with the 'People of the Sea' by Fiona, 2000-02-01
  9. The Enchanted Braid: Coming to Terms with Nature on the Coral Reef by Osha Gray Davidson, 1998-04-13
  10. Whales and Dolphins of the World by Mark Simmonds, 2005-03-01
  11. Disappearing Giants: The North Atlantic Right Whale by Scott Kraus, 2003-10-25
  12. The Life Cycle of a Whale (The Life Cycle) by Bobbie Kalman, Karuna Thal, 1997-09
  13. Seals (Martin, Louise, Wildlife in Danger.) by Louise Martin, 2001-01
  14. Daniel and the Ivory Princess by Kevin Martin, 1994-09

61. American Oceans Campaign - Fisheries - Fish Briefs July 2001
species management measures, which apply automatic conservation measures, can be a powerful tool to protect endangered or vulnerable marine life, if widely
http://www.americanoceans.org/fish/fbjuly01.htm
Summaries in plain English about the latest fish science
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Welcome to the eighth issue of Fish Briefs! Assessing and Protecting Endangered Marine Species Powles, H., Bradford, M.J., Bradford, R.G., Doubleday, W.G., Innes, S., and Levings, C.D. 2000. ICES Journal of Marine Sciences, 57:669-676. Definitions of Overfishing from an Ecosystem Perspective Murawski, S.A. 2000. ICES Journal of Marine Sciences, 57;649-658 Fishing Effects on Spatial Distribution and Trophic Guild Structure of the Fish Community in the Georges Bank Region Garrison, L.P. and Link, J.S. 2000 – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 57;723-730 If you have comments, questions or suggestions, please email me at czeman@americanoceans.org. Chris Zeman, czeman@americanoceans.org
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Peter Auster, Editor
National Undersea Research Center, University of Connecticut
www.nurc.uconn.edu "Assessing and Protecting Endangered Marine Species" Powles, H., Bradford, M.J., Bradford, R.G., Doubleday, W.G., Innes, S., and Levings, C.D. 2000. ICES Journal of Marine Sciences, 57:669-676

62. WOW Philippines :: Great Hideaways :: Diving
home to the maneating Philippine crocodile and the endangered “dugong”, or marine life The Tubbataha Reef National marine Park teems with 300 coral species
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sitemap links contact us or choose About the Dept. of Tourism About the Philippines Accommodations Conventions Culture, Arts and Entertainment Food Travel Packages Shopping Great Hideaways Wildlife Paskuhan Village in the province of Pampanga is Asia’s only Christmas theme park and the third of its kind in the world. more...
Philippines Herald war journalist Carlos P. Romulo was the first Asian to win a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism in 1942. He was also aide-de-camp to General Douglas MacArthur in World War II; Philippine resident commissioner in the U.S. Congress from 1944-46; and the first Asian to become UN President in 1949. more...
Wildlife Marine Life Avian Flora
The game preserve and wildlife sanctuary on Calauit Island is straight out of Africa. To add to an array of endangered endemic Philippine animals are 108 African animals transported here. It is also home to the man-eating Philippine crocodile and the endangered “dugong”, or sea cow. Bohol is home to the Tarsier, midget monkey of the Philippines and the smallest monkey in the world. Situated near the foot of the Mayon Volcano, Albay Park and Wildlife boasts of of 347 animals belonging to 75 species. Crocodile Park in Ma-a is the habitat of crocodiles as well as various breeds of birds, from the Philippine sea eagle to kakatoe and Indonesian parrots
Calauit Island (Palawan)

Tarsier site (Bohol)

Crocodile Park (Davao)

Marine Life
The Tubbataha Reef National Marine Park teems with 300 coral species, 46 coral genera, 7 seagrass species, 71 algae species; large marine life, dolphins, marine turtles; and seabirds. It was honored by UNESCO as the First Natural Site in the Philippines to be inscribed in the prestigious World Heritage List.

63. Grist | Main Dish | The Sound And | 23 Oct 2003
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64. Endangered Species--How You Are Involved - Jehovah's Witnesses Official Web Site
believe that the best solution to the problem of today s endangered species involves marine life will abound, as will reptiles, insects, and a variety of birds
http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/1996/8/8/how_you_are_involved.htm
ENDANGERED SPECIES
How You Are Involved
In this series: Endangered Species The Scope of the Problem Why Species Are in Danger Conservation Versus Extinction Endangered Species How You Are Involved
Related topics: Bringing Up Baby in the Wild Ivory How Much Is It Worth? Can Our Rain Forests Be Saved? In view of the world's economic plight, is it reasonable to expect people worried about their own welfare to support conservation schemes, however noble they may be? "It's certainly not easy being green in most of sub-Saharan Africa, where millions of people face political upheaval, tribal warfare, famine and epidemic disease," comments Time. The same is true elsewhere. Radical changes are necessary if the problem of endangered species is to be solved. According to The Atlas of Endangered Species, these changes are "of such magnitude that they can only be made by governments." It then recommends: "Where governments are elected, it is the responsibility of each individual to ensure that by the year 2000 only politicians sensitive to the environment are elected." Is this a realistic prospect? Judging by the testimony of history, we must conclude that "man has dominated man to his injury"—and wildlife as well. (Ecclesiastes 8:9) Indeed, many conservationists believe that earth's flora and fauna serve as environmental indicators. When these are endangered, so are we humans. But this is not the first time in human history that all earth's life has been threatened with extinction.

65. Coral Communities
careers Ecology, Natural resources, lifesustaining, Renewable Sun, Coral communities and endangered reefs Coral Communities, Ocean facts, marine inhabitants and
http://www.eco-pros.com/coral.htm
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Coral Communities Endangered Reefs
Do you see the lighter colored areas in the water out beyond the shoreline?
That is what a tropical coral reef looks like from the air. Not too far under the surface are beautiful gardens of red, purple, yellow, orange, tan, and green coral. These gardens are ever-changing with the colorful live coral polyps swaying back and forth in the water, and from the vibrant colors of the animals and fishes who dart in and out of the coral formations looking for food or hiding from predators. reef . Reef-forming coral polyps must have a special food released by a single-celled algae, as it helps them secrete limestone. The algae take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen into the water. And enough light must penetrate the water for photosynthesis to occur in the algae, so the water must be clean and clear. Reef-forming corals cannot live in water that is below 65°F (18°C). This is why you find coral reefs in shallow, warm tropical seas. After a very long period of time, millions of these tiny coral animals can build long reefs (like the Great Barrier Reef), or even build islands! Many South Pacific islands were built by these tiny coral animals. But environmental conditions had to be just right for this to happen. The word "reef" is described as a chain of coral, rocks, or a ridge of sand at or near the surface of water. There are three main types of

66. ECES: Prawn Fishery Kills 150,000 Endangered Sea Turtles Every Year And Is Respo
Prawn fishery kills 150,000 endangered sea turtles every year and is responsible for one due to the massive damage done to the seabed and marine life by prawn
http://eces.org/articles/000800.php
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Prawn fishery kills 150,000 endangered sea turtles every year and is responsible for one-third of the world's discarded "bycatch" although it produces less than 2% of global seafood.
The U.K. Independent and BBC report that a boycott of prawns (shrimp) is being urged by British campaigners due to the massive damage done to the seabed and marine life by prawn trawlers. The Environmental Justice Foundation said that in some cases prawns are only 5 percent of the material dredged up by industrial ships searching for the crustaceans. A study by the foundation, Squandering the Seas , warns that so-called "prawn trawling", in which nets are pulled over the seabed, catch relatively little prawns and is endangering other marine species. The "bycatch" of other species dragged up is enormous, said the London-based foundation. The report says the ratio of bycatch (other species caught accidentally) to prawns is typically 5:1 in temperate seas, and 10:1 in the tropics, but in some fisheries the ratio is as high as 20:1. Most of the bycatch is simply thrown back into the sea dead or dying. Prawn fisheries are responsible for one-third of the world's discarded catch although they produce less than 2 percent of global seafood. Recent reports of overfishing and plummeting fish stocks have begun to alter the illusion that the seas are an inexhaustible resource, yet few people are aware that prawn trawling is one of the most destructive and wasteful fisheries of all, with hundreds of other bycatch species usually thrown back into the sea. This degradation has been compared by scientists to the destruction of the world's forests.

67. ECES - Endangered Species: Marine Mammals
who works at the Swire Institute of marine Science birth but fade to pink in later life as the The endangered IndoPacific humpbacked dolphins are known locally
http://eces.org/archive/ec/extinction/marinemammals.shtml
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Page 2 (Note: This is not anything close to a complete list of endangered marine mammals, but will give some indication of how severe the threat of extinction is for many, including whales, dolphins, dugongs, sea lions, sea otters, etc.) [ Jump to Endangered Marine Mammals News below ] Name: Antillean manatee. Status: critically endangered. Where: Mexico.

68. Reviewing The Textbook 'Marine Life And The Sea' (1995; Wadsworth Publishing Co.
See also the editorial Protecting endangered Species in the same issue marine life and the Sea is a good book, but Milne can make it even better in its next
http://www.textbookleague.org/64sea.htm
from The Textbook Letter , September-October 1995
Reviewing a science book for high-school honors courses
Marine Life and the Sea
1995. 495 pages. ISBN: 0-534-16314-9. Wadsworth Publishing Co.,
10 Davis Drive, Belmont, California 94002. (Wadsworth is a part
of International Thomson Publishing Inc.)
A Superb, Exciting Textbook
That Pursues a Sublime Goal
Gary C. Williams
Marine Life and the Sea , written by David H. Milne, is an exciting new book. Of the three marine-biology texts that I have reviewed for The Textbook Letter , this is the best one for use in high-school honors courses or advanced-placement courses. [Editor's note: The other marine-biology texts that Gary C. Williams has appraised in TTL are Mosby's Marine Biology (see our issue for March-April 1992) and Wm. C. Brown's An Introduction to the Biology of Marine Life (see the issue for September-October 1992).] In his preface Milne announces two objectives, the first of which is to enable readers to understand the probable responses of the oceans and marine organisms to human activities. The second is "to convey an appreciation for the intrinsic beauty and value of marine plants and animals, apart from their roles as unpaid crew members who maintain humanity's life-support machinery in the hold of spaceship Earth." This is a sublime goal, and it helps to imbue Marine Life and the Sea with a refreshing tone of originality.

69. Homework Center - Animals
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70. Marine Debris Fact Sheet
The endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal is observed entangled on its haulout and breeding beaches every year. Sea-borne plastic is deadly to marine life.
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  • During the one-day Hawaii beach cleanup in October 1995, 3,564 people covered 82 miles of beaches. They picked up 32,200 pounds of garbage from our beaches.
  • On Maui alone during the 1995 cleanup, 724 volunteers covered 16.2 miles, picking up 100,381 bags of debris. In addition, each year between 1987-1994, the military, Pacific Whale Foundation, Community Work Day and the Protect Kahoolawe Ohana removed between 6-8 tons of debris from a single uninhabited beach on Kahoolawe.
  • People dump more than 14 billion pounds of garbage each year into the world's oceans.
  • People dump more than 650,000 plastic bottles into the oceans each day.
  • People dump an additional 100,000 metric tons of mono-filament lines and fishing gear into the ocean each year. Worldwide estimates of lost netting translate this amount into anywhere from 12,400 to 135,000 miles annually.
  • Plastics make up most of the debris collected during beach cleanups.

71. NRDC: Protecting Whales From Dangerous Sonar
But whales and other marine life are not yet safe US military from core provisions of the marine Mammal Protection Act and the endangered Species Act
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Protecting Whales from Dangerous Sonar
An NRDC-led legal effort forces the U.S. Navy to limit use of a "super sonar" system that can maim or kill marine mammals, but the battle over noise beneath the waves continues.

Click to watch video of sonar's effects
Around the globe, nations are currently testing and beginning to deploy "active sonar" technology, which uses extremely loud sound to detect submarines. But active sonar has been proven harmful to marine mammals and fish; it has been linked to a series of mass strandings and deaths of whales in recent years.
Researchers have found that many humpback whales cease singing when exposed to an LFA sonar signal that is hundreds of miles distant.
Photo: Bill Lawton / NMML The historic agreement between the Navy and the coalition comes after NRDC proved in court that the Navy's plan to deploy LFA sonar through 75 percent of the world's oceans was illegal. The Navy has now agreed that use of LFA sonar will be guided by negotiated geographical limits and seasonal exclusions, which conservationists believe will protect critical habitat and whale migrations. None of the limits apply during war or heightened threat conditions; the pact demonstrates that current law can safeguard both the environment and national security. But whales and other marine life are not yet safe from Department of Defense activities. In the greatest single rollback of marine mammal protections in the last 30 years, Congress approved legislation in November 2003 that will exempt the U.S. military from core provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act. It will now be far easier for the U.S. military to harass and kill whales, dolphins and other marine mammals with high-intensity sonar and underwater explosives. The new exemptions are unlikely to affect the court's ruling on LFA sonar because the Bush administration violated so many different laws in approving that particular system. But the Navy is considering the wider deployment of other, equally dangerous sonar systems.

72. Issues In S And T, Fall 1999, Creating Havens For Marine Life
Occasionally, marine protected areas established to protect the habitats of a single highly endangered species can play a system that protects all life in the
http://www.issues.org/issues/16.1/agardy.htm
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    Creating Havens for Marine Life Marine protected areas are urgently needed to stem the tide of marine biodiversity loss.
      The United States is the world's best-endowed maritime nation, its seas unparalleled in richness and biological diversity. The waters along its 150,000 kilometers of shoreline encompass virtually every type of marine habitat known and a profusion of marine speciessome of great commercial value, others not. It is paradoxical, then, that the United States has done virtually nothing to conserve this great natural resource or to actively stem the decline of the oceans' health. As a result, the U.S. national marine heritage is gravely threatened. The damage goes on largely unnoticed because it takes place beneath the deceptively unchanging blanket of the ocean's surface. The marine environment is rapidly undergoing change at the hands of humans, revealing the notion of vast and limitless oceans as folly. Human degradation takes many forms and results from many activities, such as overfishing, filling of wetlands, coastal deforestation, the runoff of land-based fertilizers, and the discharge of pollution and sediment from rivers, almost all of which goes on unchecked. Out of sight, out of mind. The signs of trouble are everywhere. The formerly rich and commercially critical fish stocks of Georges Bank in the Northeast have collapsed, gutting the economy and the very nature of communities along New England's shores. In Long Island Sound, Narragansett Bay, the Chesapeake, and throughout the inlets of North Carolina, toxic blooms of algae disrupt the food chain and affect human health. In Florida, the third largest barrier reef in the world is suffering from coral bleaching, coral diseases, and algal overgrowth. Just inland, fixing the ecological damage to the great Everglades is expected to cost billions of dollars. Conditions are even worse in the Gulf of Mexico, where riverborne runoff has created a "dead zone" of lifeless water that covers thousands of square miles and is expanding fast.

73. Best Endangered Species And Threatened Plants Websites
comprehensive database of extinct, critically endangered and threatened our planet s oceans and the life they contain. The scope includes all marine ecosystems
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mounts rescue and relief operations to help animals in distress, The site is an outstanding resource for breaking news on animal welfare, plus information on how you can help.
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Recommended by Care2 Staff Animals of the World in Danger collects photos and descriptions of endangered animals and organizes them by region. Bagheera.com provides information and resources for learning more about endangered animals, and helping them. Bushmeat Project was established to develop and support community based partnerships that will help the people of Central Africa to develop alternatives to hunting the Great Apes. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is the UN secretariat that oversees the international agreement to protect endangered species. Defenders of Wildlife is dedicated to the protection of all native wild animals and plants in their natural communities. They focus on the accelerating rate of extinction of species and the associated loss of biological diversity, and habitat alteration and destruction.

74. Gulf Of Maine Program (GoM): Census Of Marine Life Portal
lobster have flourished at times, but wild Atlantic salmon are endangered, and traditional This program will focus on marine life in the Gulf of Maine, Georges
http://www.coml.org/descrip/gom.htm
@import "../2.css"; Project Descriptions A project documenting patterns of biodiversity and related processes in the Gulf of Maine, which will be used to establish ecosystem-based management of the area. Project Leaders: Dr. Evan Richert, University of Southern Maine, Muskie School of Public Service, Portland, Maine, USA
Dr. Lewis Incze, University of Southern Maine, Bioscience Research Institute, Portland, Maine, USA Visit the GOMA Web Site The Gulf of Maine Census of Marine Life is one of seven initial field projects of the Census of Marine Life (CoML). The Gulf of Maine was selected as the ecosystem pilot study for CoML. The goal of this program is to gain enough knowledge to enable ecosystem-based management in a large marine environment. The program will advance knowledge of both biodiversity and ecological processes over a range of habitats and food-chain levels, from plankton to whales.
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The Gulf of Maine is a dynamic ecosystem. Both natural and human influences have wrought large changes in the abundance and diversity of life in its waters. Such species as mackerel, herring, and lobster have flourished at times, but wild Atlantic salmon are endangered, and traditional livelihoods have been wiped out by the collapse of such bottom-dwelling fish as haddock and cod. We know a lot about some individual species, but we don't know enough about these populations, their habitats, and their interactions with one another and their environment to determine why these changes have taken place or what the future may hold.

75. Census In The News: Media Resources: Census Of Marine Life Portal
Scuba Diving. Searching for new signs of life . New technologies reveal mysteries of marine megafauna . Half of endangered turtles snared each year .
http://www.coml.org/medres/medres1.htm
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76. Galapagos Marine Life
The Galapagos marine life is incredible and this is an opportunity not to be missed. Sea Turtles. Green Sea Turtles are an endangered species.
http://www.galapagosonline.com/Galapagos_Natural_History/Birds_and_Animals/Marin
Galapagos Marine Life
The combination of warm tropical waters and the upwelling nutrient rich cool Humboldt waters allows the Galapagos Islands to support a wide array of marine life. These waters are home to sharks, sea turtles, sea lions , and 306 varieties of fish, 25% of these fish are endemic. There are few coral reefs in these waters, instead the crevasses in the lava provides the function of a reef in other environments. Smaller fish live protected within the crevasses coming out to feed, and invertebrates make their home in the lava. The marine food chain and life is established around the lava as larger fish live near the lava area where they feed on the smaller fish.
Viewing the Marine Life
Diving in the Galapagos has been rapidly increasing in the last few years. Dive trips focus on viewing the Marine Life. These trips visit some of the remote island areas like Darwin and Wolf where land visits are not possible, but diving is exceptional. The highlight of these trips is viewing the Galapagos' big animals including Whale Sharks and Hammerheads. Natural history cruises also allow visitors to have a glimpse of life under the sea. These trips offer snorkeling excursions in place like Devil's Crown a submerged volcano, which offers an experience similar to swimming in a tropical fish tank. The Galapagos Marine Life is incredible and this is an opportunity not to be missed.

77. Steller Sea Lion Endangered Species Act (ESA) Waiver - PCFFA Statement
The endangered Species Act has played and continues to the longterm sustainability of the marine ecosystems that support our industry and way of life.
http://www.pcffa.org/stelerst.htm
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PCFFA STATEMENT REGARDING THE PROPOSED
STELLER SEA LION ESA WAIVER
The current hardships caused by the closure of much of Alaska's trawl fishery, ordered because of the continuing decline of the ESA-listed Steller sea lion population, is not a problem with the Endangered Species Act, nor is an exemption for this fishery from the act warranted. Indeed, such an exemption would set a dangerous precedent, not just for the protection of threatened and endangered species across the nation, but for many fish stocks that rely on measures taken only under the ESA to protect their habitats. An ESA exemption for Stellers would open the floodgate for dam operators, water diverters, timber and oil companies, among others, to seek exemptions for their activities that are killing fish and putting fishermen out of business. There are simply other and better ways to provide relief to the beleaguered Alaskan fishery. The current belief, but hardly undisputed, is that trawling has diminished the amount of fish available to the sea lions thereby causing the animal's population to crash. If this is, in fact, the case then measures have to be taken under the law to address the impact of the fishery on the animals. In this instance, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) was required to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Biological Opinion to analyze the options available to it for protecting Stellers. The subsequent order to close the trawl fishery by Judge Zilly on 8 August, 2000, was not because the fishery may have been impacting Stellers, but because NMFS failed to prepare an adequate EIS. Let's be clear, in this case it was NMFS's failure that caused the fishery to be shut down, not the ESA.

78. Map & Graph: Countries By Environment: Intl Agreements (signed But Not Ratified)
Kyoto Protocol. 55. Ireland, Air PollutionPersistent Organic Pollutants, endangered Species, marine life Conservation. 56. Iceland,
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    79. Singapore Science Centre ScienceNet Life Sciences Marine Biology
    Question No. 9429 Are dolphins endangered? Why? The However, based on the IUCN Red Data Book, most species are not endangered. Those
    http://www.science.edu.sg/ssc/detailed.jsp?artid=1247&type=6&root=4&parent=4&cat

    80. Singapore Science Centre ScienceNet Life Sciences Marine Biology
    Question No. 9548 Are sharks endangered? Sharks are endangered. For further information, please refer to the URLs below http//newsweekinteractive
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