New Global Policy Effort to Tackle Crisis of Plastic Litter in Oceans Urged
ScienceDaily Oct. 29, 2013 — Plastic litter is one of the most significant problems facing the world's marine environments. Yet in the absence of a coordinated global strategy, an estimated 20 million tons of plastic litter enter the ocean each year. A new report by authors from UCLA School of Law's Emmett Center on Climate […]
Meet the Reef Relief Board & Staff
You can now learn more about the individuals that make Reef Relief's work to protect our coral reefs possible. Visit the Reef Relief website and meet our Board and Staff today.
Petition to List 81 Marine Species under the ESA
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 […]
New release: International partners launch plan to tackle invasive lionfish
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 […]
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Whales, Dolphins Need a Break From Deadly Navy Blasts
By Miyoko Sakashita. The Huffington Post, September 27, 2013 Whales, dolphins, seals and sea lions got a good break this week when a judge told a federal wildlife agency it's not doing enough to protect them from Navy war exercises along the West Coast. That means the National Marine Fisheries Service will have to go […]