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Lost leviathans: Hunting the world's missing whales |
New science is confirming old whalers' tales of seas teeming with the beasts - and undermining claims that it's time to reload the harpoons. Old chronicles tell of populations of whales hundreds of times greater than today. Such tales have long been dismissed as exaggerations, but could they be true? Have humans killed such a staggering number of whales?
New genetic techniques for analysing whale populations, alongside a growing archive of fresh historical analysis, suggest so. Taken together, they indicate that we have got our ideas about marine ecology completely upside down: whales may once have been the dominant species in the world's oceans.
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Creature of the month: cornetfish |
Trumpetfish, Cornetfish or Flutemouth? Whatever you call it, Fistularia commersonii is the SCUBA Travel creature of the month. The long, tubular fish you see hovering in the waters of the Red Sea, Sea of Cortez, Indian and Pacific Oceans, waiting to ambush prey like the lionfish.
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Cites backs ban on bluefin tuna |
The United Nations (UN)-backed wildlife trade agency said Friday it supported a proposed ban on the international trade in bluefin tuna, a delicacy in Asia, which is due to be examined by 175 countries next month. Japan has opposed the ban proposed by Monaco, which would classify the fish as a species threatened with extinction, CITES officials said.
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Help needed to care for thousands of cold-stunned sea turtles |
Thousands of sea turtles have been rescued from the unusually cold weather experienced during the second week of January in the southeastern US. These turtles are being cared for by organisations from North Carolina to Texas. The unprecedented number of stranded sea turtles has left these organisation scrambling for resources and forced them to spend funds typically budgeted for an entire year. Seaturtle.org is asking you to help these organisations care for and return the rescued sea turtles to the wild by making a donation of money, time or materials.
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SCUBA News 117 Now On-line |
The latest issue of SCUBA News (ISSN 1476-8011) is now up at http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/scubanews117.html. In this issue: diving Thailand, Malaysia, Red Sea photo gallery, cornetfish and all the diving news from around the world.
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