It should be common knowledge by now, mass balloon release events are bad for wildlife. But the message has yet to sink in, even with organisations that should know better.
Australia’s south west offers a little-known wildlife experience that’s hard to beat. At Hamelin Bay near Augusta huge wild smooth stingrays and eagle rays regularly come to the beach to be hand-fed by eager visitors.
Upwards of 4,000 people gathered on Cottesloe Beach, Perth, Australia today to rally against the upcoming cull of sharks by the Western Australian government. Similar events were held all over the country including New South Wales and Queensland, both of which have been culling sharks for decades.
Fishing Vessel Annelies Ilena, one of the world’s biggest supertrawlers, has been detained by the Irish navy for suspected illegal fishing off the coast of Ireland.
In a four-year study, weekly records of prices of nearly 100 different frozen fillets of cod, haddock and Alaska pollock were collated for seven UK supermarkets. The most striking result from the analysis is that line-caught fish achieved a price premium of some twenty-two percent.
The harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) has the misfortune to live in some of the most heavily fished waters on earth.
The scalloped hammerhead shark (pictured) which recently won the biggest shark prize at the 2012 White Marlin Open, is listed as Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Species.
If you had travelled the world in 1812 the natural wonders seen on earth would be jaw-dropping. Plains full of grazing animals and attendant predators, huge forests covering much of the land and a sky full of birds. Wildlife in such abundance that it is hard to imagine now.
It should be common knowledge by now, mass balloon release events are bad for wildlife. But the message has yet to sink in, even with organisations that should know better.
Australia’s south west offers a little-known wildlife experience that’s hard to beat. At Hamelin Bay near Augusta huge wild smooth stingrays and eagle rays regularly come to the beach to be hand-fed by eager visitors.
Upwards of 4,000 people gathered on Cottesloe Beach, Perth, Australia today to rally against the upcoming cull of sharks by the Western Australian government. Similar events were held all over the country including New South Wales and Queensland, both of which have been culling sharks for decades.
Fishing Vessel Annelies Ilena, one of the world’s biggest supertrawlers, has been detained by the Irish navy for suspected illegal fishing off the coast of Ireland.
In a four-year study, weekly records of prices of nearly 100 different frozen fillets of cod, haddock and Alaska pollock were collated for seven UK supermarkets. The most striking result from the analysis is that line-caught fish achieved a price premium of some twenty-two percent.
The harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) has the misfortune to live in some of the most heavily fished waters on earth.
The scalloped hammerhead shark (pictured) which recently won the biggest shark prize at the 2012 White Marlin Open, is listed as Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Species.
If you had travelled the world in 1812 the natural wonders seen on earth would be jaw-dropping. Plains full of grazing animals and attendant predators, huge forests covering much of the land and a sky full of birds. Wildlife in such abundance that it is hard to imagine now.
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