Showing posts with label oceans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oceans. Show all posts

Monday, 7 February 2011

Have a look at the SEAFRIENDS WEBSITE:  http://www.seafriends.org.nz/index.htm

Extract:
  • saving our seasBecome an informed conservationist by learning about our planet, oceans, land and resources, threats and what to do.
  • conservation by common sense


Tap into our independent analyses and courage to tell the truth.

This web site contains well researched scientific information, made easy to understand, while not serving established interests, politics or beliefs.

Learn about the world we live in.

Learn about the sea and how to save our seas and the many mistakes made.

Discover the treasures on this web site. Wake up for the future of your children!

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Conservation is like fixing the mistakes of our parents with the ignorance of ourselves.


Conservation is all about changing human behaviour and a willingness to learn.

Monday, 18 October 2010

More than more than 170 billion pounds of wildlife is removed a year, from the seas

National Geographic Magazine looks to the ocean and watches as three times the weight of every man, woman, and child in the United States is removed from the waters. Will we have a worldwide fisheries collapse?
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Too many hooks in the water. That’s the problem with today’s fisheries. Working from small pole-and-line boats to giant industrial trawlers, fishermen remove more than 170 billion pounds of wildlife a year from the seas.