Yesterday, the Ministry of Interior of Ecuador released a video showing Vice Minister Diego Fuentes explaining that 200,000 shark fins (which corresponds to roughly 40,000 sharks) had been seized in a series of operations. The Ecuador government arrested three people and confiscated several fire arms.
Starting at 8 am on Wednesday, May 27, 2015 National Marine Fisheries Service will begin releasing about 50 sea turtles that were part of the cold stunning event on the…
Bridgete Dix checks the sand for Kemp’s ridley tracks as she walks a stretch of the beach during one of her Turtle Island Restoration Network patrols.
The nesting season for the world’s most endangered sea turtle, and official sea turtle of Texas, begins amid fears that it may be facing a decline after a rally that lasted more than a decade and had federal officials ready to take it off the endangered species list.
Autodesk and SPAWN are teaming up to save Marin’s endangered coho salmon and restore the fishes critical habitat in Lagunitas Creek Watershed.
Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula have the distinction of being nesting sites for the endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle.
It’s not likely Bridget Dix will see the official sea turtle of Texas, the endangered Kemp’s ridley, but that doesn’t stop her from making a five-mile walk down a Galveston beach.
Searching the dunes and checking the sand for tracks, Dix walks one of the six stretches of beach that volunteers with the Turtle Island Restoration Network patrol. Dix is one of about 120 volunteers who will be walking almost 27 miles of beach a day looking for Kemp’s ridleys as they make their way up the beach to nest.
The Louisiana House of Representatives took a big step forward on May 6 when they unanimously approved House Bill 668 repealing a 1987 bill which has hurt the economy of the shrimp industry and the reputation of the state. The bill has now gone to the Senate and, if passed, will go forward to Governor Jindal for his signature.
On May 1, Marin County released the long-delayed draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (SEIR) for the 2007 Countywide Plan Update. The preparation of this new study on the effects of new development on endangered salmon and their habitat was ordered by the Marin Superior Court over two years ago as necessary to comply with the California Environmental Quality Act.
On December 24, an American Airlines plane carried 411 kilos (904 pounds) of dried hammerhead shark fins from Alajuela, Costa Rica, to Hong Kong, touching down partway through the journey in Miami. The shipment, valued at nearly $53,000, contained fins from around 411 animals, more than seven times the number on its export permit from the Costa Rican government. The fins came from two species of shark: smooth hammerheads (Sphyrna zygaena), which are classified as Vulnerable by the IUCN, and scalloped hammerheads (Sphyrna lewini), which are classified as Endangered by the IUCN and under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
