NOAA Fisheries Background On July 15, 2013, NMFS received a petition from WildEarth Guardians [pdf] to list 81 species as threatened or endangered and designate critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act. The 81 petitioned species includes corals hagfishes sharks skates rays bony fishes sea snakes marine mammals NMFS will respond to the petition with 90-day findings […]
October 22, 2013 Senate Office Building 404 S. Monroe Street Tallahassee, FL 32399-0001 RE: Protecting Our Rivers: A Call to Action for the State of Florida Dear Florida Senator, We are facing a crisis. Billions of gallons of polluted water are being discharged out of Lake Okeechobee into the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie estuaries. […]
Sigsbee Charter School’s 7th graders made a splash learning how to conduct water studies and survey marine life at the Higgs Beach Marine Park
Video: Scripps’ Kate Furby on Zombie Coral Reefs Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego graduate student Kate Furby tells PHD Comics all about a species of coral that can seemingly come back from the dead after bleaching events.
Reef Relief visited the Kindergardeners of Poinciana Elementary School today. We had lots of fun learning about the importance of coral reefs and the animals that live there. The students drew beautiful pictures of ocean animals they love and wrote on the frames ways they can help protect them!
Dr. Ir. J.M. de Goeij. University of Amsterdam (UvA). Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics – Aquatic Ecology and Ecotoxicology (IBED-AEE) Sponges retain the majority of energy and nutrients produced on coral reefs, dissolved organic matter (DOM), and transfer it to reef fauna as cellular debris through a rapid cell turnover. DOM transfer through th […]
The International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI), through its Regional Lionfish Committee, is urging Caribbean countries to adopt a regional roadmap to control the invasive lionfish. Regional Lionfish Committee co-chair and lead author Ricardo Gomez Lozano said a Regional Strategy for the Control of Invasive Lionfish in the Wider Caribbean had been developed to help control […]