By Daily Mail Reporter 8th March 2011 They are known as the ocean’s gentle giants, but an alarming rise in manta and mobula ray hunting could threaten the very existence of the species. From India to Ecuador, manta and mobula fishing has become big business for fisheries who are selling their gills to be used […]
March 6, 2011: Detroit Free Press Baby dolphins, some barely 3 feet in length, are washing up along the Mississippi and Alabama coastlines at 10 times the normal rate of stillborn and infant deaths, researchers say. Seventeen young dolphins, either aborted or dead soon after birth, have been collected along the shorelines in recent weeks, […]
Coral Reef Fact: Caribbean spiny lobsters (Panulirus argus) migrate along shore and offshore seasonally; traveling in single-file lines to deeper water in order to evade the stresses of the cold and turbid waters. Lobster Migration scene – From the Trials of Life Donate to Reef Relief today and help protect our marine environment.
Coral Reefs support the activities of an estimated 500 million people globally.Yet, in the Caribbean and Florida Keys more than 75% of the reefs are considered threatened, with more than 30% in the high and very high threat categories. Read the new Reefs at Risk Revisited Report here Coral reefs around the world are experiencing […]