Ocean Conservancy Action Alert – November 2011 Right now the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering approval of genetically engineered farmed salmon. This would be the first approval anywhere in the world of a GE animal for human consumption. We need your help to tell the FDA that genetically engineered food – including […]
Share This: Dear Reef Relief Supporter, We want to take this time to thank you for your concern for our coral reef ecosystem. This year has been a very challenging and exciting year for Reef Relief and our coral reefs. Once again, our staff, volunteers and the Reef Relief High School Club have accomplished so […]
Posted: 14 Nov 2011 04:57 PM PST Reef Relief is the proud new owner of an HP color printer thanks to the generosity of Coldwell Banker Schmidt Real Estate in Marathon. The company discovered that Reef Relief needed the printer on KeysReuse.com, which lists the needs of 26 non-profits. Pictured with the printer and supplies […]
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 […]