A member contacted me recently, and her email name “Sea Witch of Maine” piqued my curiosity so I googled it. To my delight I discovered that she has a line of organic skin care and bath products and that part of the profits are donated to MarineBio! I didn’t need much convincing to pamper myself with some [...]

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This is one of the most important reasons why we need to fight harder to stop climate change. The loss of these precious ecosystems is a tragedy. The Wildlife Conservation Society has released initial field observations that indicate that a dramatic rise in the surface temperature in Indonesian waters has resulted in a large-scale bleaching [...]

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So I mosey on over to the Shark Week homepage and the first thing I see is the word ATTACK. Sigh. I guess to draw people into watching shark week they have to plaster the word ATTACK everywhere to get people’s attention. The good news is, they are making an effort toward shark conservation: http://dsc.discovery.com/sharks/shark-facts-tab-04.html [...]

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Sharks take years to reach sexual maturity and have very few young. Taking them in the quantities shown in the above is simply not sustainable. Sharks are apex predators and have been around for hundreds of millions of years. Removing them from ecosystems is having devastating effects, many possibly irreversible, on food webs throughout the [...]

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If you haven’t already, check out the TEDx Oil Spill conference. It was held/streamed live on June 28 from Washington DC and featured an impressive number of speakers including Sylvia Earle, Carl Safina, Philippe Cousteau, David Gallo (Woods Hole), Andrew Sharpless (Oceana) and many others on the oil spill, the future of energy, and what [...]

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I came across this image on Facebook and it really hit close to home. It was posted by one of my BFF’s from high school (hi Michelle!). A BFF whom I’d spent a week on this very coast during Spring Break ’84 in Panama City! I wish I could share fond memories from that trip, [...]

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From the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society WDCS Press Statement: Moratorium remains intact: Pro-whaling advocates fail to get commercial whaling condoned Agadir 23rd June 2010 – After two days of closed-door discussions delegates to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) were unable to reach consensus on a proposal (the ‘deal’) that would see the legitimization of [...]

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