Margaritaville presents a $10,439 donation to Reef Relief’s Exe. Director Mill McCleary. This donation was made possible through the purchase of t-shirts and a raffle at the Meeting of the Minds 2011. Thanks to all the Parrotheads & Margaritaville for selecting Reef Relief and coral reef conservation for your annual charity fundraising at the 20th […]
The 2011 SYRCL’s Wild & Scenic Film Festival hosted by Reef Relief was a great success. This festival hopes to inspire people and unite communities to take action to protect their local Wild & Scenic places. This is the second year that Reef Relief has been able to host the Wild and Scenic Film Festival […]
NOVEMBER 15, 2011 Watercolors is a compelling and riveting true story about the rescue of JJ the Whale, a day old gray whale that was found abandoned in Marina del Rey, California. Tamminen tells an educational, moving, and remarkable story as he takes us through his incredible journey and the set-backs he encountered. But most […]
By Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC Nature Loggerhead turtles take almost half a century to reach maturity, say scientists. A female turtle, the researchers report in the journal Functional Ecology, will not start to lay eggs until she is 45.This estimate, based on examination of several decades of data on the turtles’ growth, has implications […]
There will be a shoreline cleanup this Saturday on Big Coppit with Reef Relief, Monroe County Recycling, T.R.A.SH.E.D. in the Keys and Waste Management. If you would like to help out this weekend, we will have about ten kayaks available for the canal/boat access areas and there is also lots of work to be done […]
Jeremy Hance. mongabay.com . November 03, 2011 Researchers with the Smithsonian have catalogued almost as many crab species on tropical coral reef bits measuring just 20.6 square feet (6.3 square meters) as in all of Europe’s seas, finds a new paper in PLoS ONE. The team used DNA barcoding to quickly identify a total of […]
By David Fleshler. Sun Sentinel. Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011 They are whimsical symbols of the beach, appearing on key chains, murals, logos and postcards. They form inseparable, monogamous couples. And they are hauled from the sea in nets, ground into powder for traditional Chinese medicine and dried for sale in souvenir shops. The world’s four dozen or so […]
20th Annual Meeting Of The Minds: DON’T STOP THE CARNIVAL November 3 – November 6, 2011 For decades the faithful PHlockers have met for their Parrot Head pilgrimage. This year they are marking this milestone by offering the chance to win a 5 Day / 4 Night stay for two at the Margaritaville Beach Hotel […]
ScienceDaily (Oct. 3, 2011) — Changing human activities coupled with a dynamic environment over the past few centuries have caused fluctuating periods of decline and recovery of corals reefs in the Hawaiian Islands, according to a study sponsored in part by the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science at Stony Brook University. Using the reefs and […]