July 2012
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The Einsteins of the deep. →
Dolphins can perform feats of maths that would baffle human computer systems Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2175395/The-Einsteins-deep-Dolphins-perform-feats-maths-baffle-human-systems.html#ixzz21NxNpZKM
Thanks for tweeting @Oceanwire
@dolphincommu @TheDolphin_OR @dolphincode
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Great info from the Marine Stewardship Council →
The MSC is a global organisation working with fisheries, seafood companies, scientists, conservation groups and the public to promote the best environmental choice in seafood.
Short cut links to sustainable fisheries, recipies, labelling and marketing tools.
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Check Out Our Rivers, Lakes, Water Pinterest Photo... →
We’re building a digital gallery of Rivers, Lakes, Water - the stunning & the struggling.
Please take a look, follow us and we can re-pin you too!
We LOVE photos at http://pinterest.com/mermology/
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10 Incredible Underwater Volcanoes →
Take this tour around the globe for fascinating images and information on underwater volcanoes. It is estimated that there are 5000 active volcanoes worldwide.
How much do we really know about their effect on the oceans?
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Check Out Our New Pinterest Photo Board →
#MYmermology is our newest Pinterest board.
We re-pin YOUR photos showing ‘where the water is’ , what’s common, rare and diverse, as part of the www.mermology.com world. Tweet us pics @merblogogy #MYmermology
Please take a look, follow us and we can re-pin you too!
We LOVE photos at http://pinterest.com/mermology/
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Hilton Hotels Still Serve Shark Fin Soup - STOP! →
The Vice President of Corporate Responsibility, Jennifer Silberman, admitted that the Hilton hotel chain does serve shark fin soup at its restaurants in Asia Pacific. However the company appears to be open to change - HELP ENCOURAGE CHANGE - email contacts are included in the link - please tell the Hilton Corporate Responsibility MATTERS and sharks are near EXTINCT. STOP!
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Researchers to document all Arctic species →
Take note of this important study underway.
Scientists believe the Arctic is home to about 20,000 species, and an international team of researchers is working to pin that number down by documenting all of the Arctic’s life forms.
@Greenpeace
Thanks for the tweet @DianeN56
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Check Out Our Water, Fish, Ocean, Beach, Campaigns... →
We’re building a digital gallery of Water, Fish, Ocean & Beaches Campaigns and learning loads about the incredible work that is going on out there.
Please take a look, follow us and we can re-pin to support you too!
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5 Day Introduction to Scientific Diving →
Check out dates for Aug 2012
Are you interested in marine life and SCUBA diving? During this five-day dive program participants have the opportunity to dive into the temperate Southern California waters and learn what its like to be a scientific diver!
Thanks for tweeting the info @TheDiveShack
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Real-time flood map goes online in UK →
A live flood warning system has gone online as the UK experienced unseasonable amounts of heavy rain…
How many other online weather / water / ocean warning systems should we have?
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Top news: reforming the common fisheries policy →
Great website and for some positive news, check it out and stay updated. Includes news on better protection and management in Europe and putting an end to depletion of fish stocks.
@fishingdaily @fishsecretariat @fisheryupdate @fish4fishEU @fishactive @fish4ever @fisheriesQLD
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Check Out Our Trash & Pollution Pinterest Photo... →
We’re building a digital gallery of Trash & Pollution in the seas and for sea life - Just as you think you’ve seen it all…
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QI: Some interesting facts about whales! →
A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI has a whale of a time.
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Cesar Harada: A novel idea for cleaning up oil... →
TED Senior Fellow Cesar Harada aims to harness the forces of nature as he invents innovative remedies for man-made problems like oil spills and radioactive leaks.
Don’t miss this video in the link.
Thanks for tweeting Celine Cousteau @celinecousteau
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Check Out Our Ocean Pinterest Photo Board →
We’re building a digital gallery of the Ocean and indulging in the wonderful and gorgeous!
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Whales to gain Panama Canal traffic protection →
Shipping lanes into and out of the Panama Canal are likely to be constrained in order to protect whales.
Humpback whales breed around Las Perlas archipelago 60km (40 miles) from the canal’s southern entrance, and are disturbed and even killed by shipping.
Panamanian officials and scientists have developed a plan that would corral vessels into narrow lanes.
They plan to present it for...
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Lifetime Achievement Award for Jean-Michel... →
Jean-Michel Cousteau will be receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in Marine Conservation and Film Making at this year’s 3rd Annual Hamptons Wildlife Conservation Film Festival on August 25, 2012
What can we say apart from a MASSIVE congratulations and thank you for so much dedication!
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Check Out Our Mermaids & Mermen Pinterest Photo... →
We’re building a digital gallery of Mermaids & Mermen - Fact? Fiction? Folklore & Mythology. Help us build the history of ‘mer’ creatures.
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Alarming Slaughter of Manta-Rays. STOP! →
They’re easy targets. Moving slowly through the ocean, often in predictable aggregations – these gentle, filter-feeding giants are being slaughtered at an alarming rate.
Please sign this urgent petition and support Project Aware @projectaware
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Wonderful Article on the Life of Manta Rays →
DID YOU KNOW:
In 2012, the world is likely to learn of a third species of manta. So far the species is officially unnamed but likely to be called the Atlantic manta ray or Caribbean manta ray and classified as Manta giorna. It is found only in the Atlantic Ocean, primarily in the Bahamas, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea south to Venezuela.
To date, manta rays are only formally protected...
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Help Protect Delicate Dwarf Seahorses →
Dwarf seahorses are habitat specialists, so as seagrasses disappear the seahorses vanish with them. More than 50 percent of Florida seagrasses have been destroyed since 1950, and in some areas losses are as steep as 90 percent. These one-inch-long fish are not the only wildlife that depends on seagrass to survive, but they are the cutest. Dwarf seahorses form monogamous pair bonds, and every...
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World's 20 Best Surf Towns →
Great news, photos and adventures from National Geographic
@ngadventure
Send us your surf pics! We re-pin to our surf board on Pinterest mermology
Tweet pics to @merblogogy #MYmermology
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Check Out Our Fish & Friends Pinterest Photo Board →
We’re building a digital gallery of fish & friends and learning tonnes along the way as to the incredible and stunning diversity of the marine world - including new discoveries!
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Re-inforcing GREAT SHARK news! →
This has been a pretty stand out few days for ocean, fish and shark news - long may it continue to rescue the near extinct, chronic depletion and mind blowing irresponsibility in the oceans.
The EU has finally voted in favour of strictly protecting ten threatened species of sharks and rays in the Mediterranean Sea, under the Barcelona Convention. Ten species – including hammerheads, tope, and...
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Sea Watch Foundation →
Check out this blog from our friends at the Sea Watch Foundation - great dolphin and whale sightings, and, great ways to volunteer.
Thanks to @NWcetaceans
@dolphin freedom @dolphincode @whales_org
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Did you know...? →
A decade-long marine census involving 2,700 scientists and 9,000 days at sea found thousands of species.
The Census of Marine Life, 2010, estimated there are more than one million species in the oceans, with at least three-quarters of them yet to be discovered. The $US650 million ($A669 million) international study found more than 6,000 potentially new species, and found some species considered...
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The Talented but Endangered sawfish →
Sawfish use electrical signals in their long saw-like snout to detect, stun and then stab.
Check out the video.
“Sawfish are very talented predators, their talents leave them very vulnerable to net fisheries,” says Martin. “Their saw is adept at finding prey but is at a high risk of entanglement, which unfortunately means they’re attracted to fisheries’ nets full of...
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Help Save the Arctic with a Few Seconds →
We are blogging this vital reminder again - please help achieve the 1 million signatures asap. No ice - No life.
Thanks @Greenpeace for this vital work
A new Arctic oil rush is starting. Shell, BP, Exxon, Gazprom, Rosneft and others want to risk a devastating Arctic oil spill for only three years’ worth of oil.
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Coral Reef - A Shark Hotspot →
A 2011 report has found that the Coral Sea is one of the most diverse habitats for sharks and tuna.
About 52 species of deep-water sharks, rays and chimaera fish were recorded in the Coral Sea - 18 of which are endemic to that ecosystem - while it also holds the world’s only confirmed spawning aggregation of black marlin.
Numerous threatened and migratory whales, turtles and sharks, as...
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Why we love the ocean →
THE NATURAL BEAUTY OF Western Australia’s Ningaloo Reef has long been considered a cut above the rest, recently granted World Heritage status, its beauty is untouchable, check out the photos.
@oceana @ISF_Oceans @projectbluehope @protect_our_oz
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10 Amazing Shipwreck Dive Sites in Australia →
From nearly 8000 shipwrecks around Australia, here are 10 of the best dives sites.
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Coming Up - The Wash Awards 2012 →
The WASH Media Awards recognize and support the crucial role of media in raising awareness of the importance of water, sanitation, and hygiene services.
The WASH Media Award Ceremony will take place at the Closing of the World Water Week in Stockholm, on August 31. Our very own mermology.com teaser director Berta Tilmantaitė is tipped to win the TV category with her film The River Runs Back,...
