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West Marine drops shark tournament sponsorship

Boating supplies retailer West Marine joins a long list of corporations including AON, Astoria Bank, Budweiser, BASF, Foley Caterpillar, Goslings Rum, Lexus, Merrill Lynch, Toyota and Royal Bank of Canada that have pulled out of shark tournament sponsorship at Blue Planet Society’s request.

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Rock-stacking denies people the experience of wildness

Most people who visit wild areas are aware that they should take their rubbish home, not to graffiti on rocks or scratch their names on to trees and will have probably heard about the concept of ‘leave no trace’. However, the increasing popularity of rock-stacking has opened a debate on whether this pastime is detrimental.

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A sense of porpoise

Porpoises are small (less than two meters in length) and snub-nosed, and although they are the most abundant cetacean (collective term for whales, dolphins and porpoises) species in UK waters, are rarely seen, as they are shy and tend to avoid boats.

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EU Fisheries Commissioner Karmenu Vella’s commitment to tackling dolphin, porpoise and whale deaths in fishing gear (bycatch)

Responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths every year, entanglement in fishing gear is the single biggest threat to dolphins, porpoises and whales (collectively known as ‘cetaceans’). The EU is deciding on future measures to end this bycatch, as it compiles and rolls a number of fisheries conservation measures into one piece of legislation.

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West Marine drops shark tournament sponsorship

Boating supplies retailer West Marine joins a long list of corporations including AON, Astoria Bank, Budweiser, BASF, Foley Caterpillar, Goslings Rum, Lexus, Merrill Lynch, Toyota and Royal Bank of Canada that have pulled out of shark tournament sponsorship at Blue Planet Society’s request.

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Rock-stacking denies people the experience of wildness

Most people who visit wild areas are aware that they should take their rubbish home, not to graffiti on rocks or scratch their names on to trees and will have probably heard about the concept of ‘leave no trace’. However, the increasing popularity of rock-stacking has opened a debate on whether this pastime is detrimental.

READ MORE
A sense of porpoise

Porpoises are small (less than two meters in length) and snub-nosed, and although they are the most abundant cetacean (collective term for whales, dolphins and porpoises) species in UK waters, are rarely seen, as they are shy and tend to avoid boats.

READ MORE
EU Fisheries Commissioner Karmenu Vella’s commitment to tackling dolphin, porpoise and whale deaths in fishing gear (bycatch)

Responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths every year, entanglement in fishing gear is the single biggest threat to dolphins, porpoises and whales (collectively known as ‘cetaceans’). The EU is deciding on future measures to end this bycatch, as it compiles and rolls a number of fisheries conservation measures into one piece of legislation.

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