Articles in the Protected Sites Category

Coral Restoration Foundation hosts Earth Day 2010 Event at the CRF Nursery
By solonavi
Posted in Campaign, Coral Reefs, Endangered & Extinction, Protected Sites on 29 April 2010
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Coral Restoration Foundation CRF is a non-profit conservation organization dedicated to to develop coral nurseries and reef restoration programs for critically endangered Acroporid corals at the local, national and global level. Their mission is to develop affordable, effective strategies for protecting and restoring coral reefs and to train and empower others to implement those strategries [...]

Healthy coral reefs produce clouds and precipitation
By solonavi
Posted in Coral Reefs, Global Warming, Habitat, Protected Sites on 8 March 2010
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mongabay.com Twenty years of research has led Dr. Graham Jones of Australia’s Southern Cross University to discover a startling connection between coral reefs and coastal precipitation. According to Jones, a substance produced by thriving coral reefs seed clouds leading to precipitation in a long-standing natural process that is coming under threat due to climate change. [...]

BBC’s documentary series “South Pacific” – Coral Gardening
By solonavi
Posted in Campaign, Coral Reefs, Discovery, Habitat, Protected Sites, Technology on 9 September 2009
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reefvideo.net coralsforconservation.com Coral Gardening from Jonathan Clay on Vimeo. Many reef aquarium owners get their corals by trading them with nearby reefkeepers. Once corals get to a certain size it’s pretty easy to propagate (or frag) them by cutting off a branch here or a a few polyps there. It’s usually cheaper and easier than [...]

Key coral reefs ‘could disappear’
By solonavi
Posted in Coral Reefs, Habitat, Protected Sites on 13 May 2009
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BBC The world’s most important coral region is in danger of being wiped out by the end of this century unless fast action is taken, says a new report. The international conservation group WWF warns that 40% of reefs in the Coral Triangle have already been lost. The area is shared between Indonesia and five [...]

Beluga Whale on Track to Gain Habitat Protection
By solonavi
Posted in Endangered & Extinction, Habitat, Protected Sites on 16 April 2009
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biologicaldiversity.org The federal National Marine Fisheries Service today took the first steps towards protecting critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act for the Cook Inlet beluga whale in Alaska. In October 2008 the Fisheries Service listed the whale as endangered. The listing occurred following petitions and litigation by the Center for Biological Diversity and other [...]

Rare reptile hatchling found on New Zealand
By solonavi
Posted in Discovery, Endangered & Extinction, Protected Sites on 20 March 2009
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AP A hatchling of a rare reptile with lineage dating back to the dinosaur age has been found in the wild on the New Zealand mainland for the first time in about 200 years, a wildlife official said Thursday. : Tuatara are the last lizard-like descendants of a reptile species that walked the Earth with [...]

Southeast Asia reflects on tsunami’s anniversary
By solonavi
Posted in Coral Reefs, General, Protected Sites on 26 December 2008
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Yahoo News Scientists thought it would take a decade for Southeast Asia’s coral reefs to heal after 2004′s deadly tsunami but they said Friday that Indonesia’s reefs have bounced back with surprising speed, restoring livelihoods to countless small communities. The findings came as communities across the Indian Ocean remembered the disaster that struck Dec. 26, [...]

MEET TEAM EARTH
By solonavi
Posted in Campaign, Protected Sites on 2 December 2008
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You can fight climate change by protecting forest as a member of Team Earth. Learn more by watching the video.

Amazon deforestation accelerates
By solonavi
Posted in Campaign, Habitat, Protected Sites on 29 November 2008
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The destruction of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has accelerated for the first time in four years, Brazilian officials say.

Satellite images show 11,968 sq km of land was cleared in the year to July, nearly 4% higher than the year before.

Second Borneo rhino caught on camera
By solonavi
Posted in Endangered & Extinction, Protected Sites on 16 September 2008
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1st Borneo Rhino caught on camera WWF An image of a second wild Borneo rhino has been captured by scientists in Malaysia using a motion-triggered camera. Only 25-50 Borneo rhinos, a subspecies of the critically endangered Sumatran rhino, are thought to exist. They are found in the interior Heart of Borneo forests of Sabah, Malaysia. [...]