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Animals News tagged with oceans

Exotic Shrimp Species Could Become a Threat to Waterways
Animals  (tags: animals, invasive species, oceans, environment, habitat, humans, protection )

Cal
- 16 days ago - wwltv.com
Wildlife experts say the appearance of giant tiger prawns in Gulf of Mexico waters are reason for alarm, and they want fishermen to let them know if they find any in their nets.
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Australia to Pursue EU Over Gillnet Fears
Animals  (tags: animals, fish, gillnet, oceans, wildlife )

Maria
- 17 days ago - abc.net.au
Australia and New Zealand will raise with EU officials the issue of two Spanish boats using huge nets, known as gillnets, in waters between the two countries. The governments are concerned the two vessels are using the nets, which have been banned
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Loggerheads in Danger: 2009 Nesting Data Shows Alarming Decrease
Animals  (tags: animals, turtles, wildlife, sea turtles, oceans )

Katie
- 32 days ago - enn.com
Oceana announced yesterday that 2009 was one of the worst years on record for loggerhead sea turtle nesting from North Carolina to Florida. In Florida for example, loggerhead nesting decreased by more than 15 percent in 2009.
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Children Find Dead Pregnant Beluga Whale During Field Trip
Animals  (tags: animals, oceans, whales, blue whales )

Katie
- 41 days ago - ecoworldly.com
A class of young school children from Alaska found a dead beluga whale on the beach during a weekly field trip. The Winterberry Elementary School second graders came across the whale along the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail.
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ACTION ALERT: Ask President Obama to Protect the World's Whales !!!
Animals  (tags: whales, oceans, president obama, protection, conservation, endangered, habitats )

Simone
- 43 days ago - capwiz.com
The world's whales are at risk from multiple threats: ozone depletion, chemical and noise pollution, marine debris, vessel strikes, entanglements with fishing gear, prey depletion, increasing offshore industrial development, escalating threats from
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Battle to Save Stricken Whales in Madagascar Fuel Spill
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, habitat, oceans, environment, protection, whales, wildlife )

Maria
- 74 days ago - oceansentry.org
Rescue workers in Madagascar were battling to save a group of humpback whales beached on the southern tip of the island, where a fuel spill from a Turkish freighter threatens an ecological disaster, local media reported Thursday.
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Australia. Loggerhead Turtles Safest in Queensland Waters
Animals  (tags: loggerhead turtles, marine animals, oceans, safe, queensland waters, reports, conservation )

Simone
- 81 days ago - bymnews.com
The Bligh Government's world leading habitat protection program and support from local environmental heroes is proving a lifesaver for endangered loggerhead turtles nesting in eastern Australia. Premier Anna Bligh and Climate Change and Sustainability
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ACTION ALERT: Stop The Brutal Finning Of Sharks!- Pls Sign NEW PETITION
Animals  (tags: shark finning, cruelty, oceans, protection, banning, conservation )

Simone
- 98 days ago - gopetition.com.au
This slaughter needs to be stopped as soon as possible! Every year thousands upon thousands of shark species are caught and get their fins hacked off by normally rusty machetes, knives or anything sharp that is available.
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Help Protect Australia's Big Blue Backyard
Animals  (tags: animals, marine life, oceans, humans, protection )

Maria
- 98 days ago - oceansentry.org
Less than 1% of our South West oceans are protected despite being home to some of the most spectacular, unique and vulnerable marine life on earth. They need our help. The government is considering the future of these waters right now.
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ACTION ALERT: Stop the US Navy Warfare Testing Program in The Pacific Ocean!!!
Animals  (tags: us navy, stop warfare testing, pacific ocean, protection, conservation, marine mammals, killed, habitat destroyed, oceans )

Simone
- 101 days ago - gopetition.com.au
Whereas, a wide variety of marine mammals have already died due to Navy Warfare Testing of Weapons currently underway in the Hawaiian Islands, the Mariana Islands, the Pacific Ocean off the coastline of Oregon, Washington, Southern California, and other
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World's Leading Marine Wildlife Hotspot Is Under Threat
Animals  (tags: animals, environment, GLOBAL WARMING, climate change, oceans )

Cal
- 107 days ago - theherald.co.uk
The world's most diverse marine ecosystem is under threat from warming ocean temperatures, rising sea levels and more storms as a result of climate change, conservationists have warned.
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Tastier Names Trouble for Seafood Stocks
Animals  (tags: endangered, fish, oceans, industrial fishing, overfishing )

Lone
- 113 days ago - washingtonpost.com
An arm-long fish with the look of a prehistoric fossil, the slimehead lived in obscurity a quarter-mile deep in the ocean. The fish was known mainly to scientists, who named it for its distinctive mucus canals.
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Leave Oceans to the Whales
Animals  (tags: whales, study, behaviour, freedom, oceans, home, safety, conservation )

Simone
- 137 days ago - news.com.au
EVERY year, marine biologists discover something new about whale behaviour. Yet even with so much research by so many scientists, there is still much that is unknown and mysterious about these awesome ocean creatures
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Sign Petition: U.S. Military Base in Okinawa Threatens Rare Dugongs
Animals  (tags: animals, dugong, manatee, okinawa, wildlife, wildanimals, endangered, extinction, sadness, environment, habitat, nature, habitatdestruction, ecosystems, destruction, protection, humans, oceans )

Tom
- 154 days ago - change.org
The U.S. and Japanese governments are planning to destroy the best remaining habitat of a unique and critically endangered marine mammal -- the Okinawa dugong. This dugong, a relative of the manatee, is a rare marine mammal that feeds in the seagrass beds.
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Oceans
Animals  (tags: animals, oceans, marine life, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 166 days ago - hsus.org
HSI bridges national borders to address threats to marine and ocean life.
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