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Image via Wikipedia This article was published in Italian on 23 June 2011 on the website of “Il Fatto Quotidiano” A group of leading experts in marine conservation met in London last April to take stock of the condition of the oceans, and days ago a report with their conclusions hit the world’s . . . → Read More: The oceans are dying, long live the oceans! This article was published in Italian on 16 June 2011 on the website of “Il Fatto Quotidiano” It would be difficult to find a better example than the swordfish fishery in Italy for exemplifying what NOT to do as far as management of the marine environment and its resources are concerned. In the old . . . → Read More: Pelagic driftnets: a Mediterranean metastasis Photo: A.M. Abd El Malek
This article first appeared on the “Monk Seal Latest News”. I thank William Johnson, Editor of The Monachus Guardian, for significantly improving our manuscript. The article is co-authored by Mahmoud Fouad, from the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency of . . . → Read More: Monk seal sightings in Egypt So, the Tethys Research Institute is now a quarter of century old. That distant 31 January 1986 seems like yesterday though, when I walked into the notary’s office to create Tethys with friend Egidio Gavazzi, then the publisher of Aqua, a magazine I was science editor of. At the time we were animated by . . . → Read More: Tethys’ 25th birthday (adapted from an article appeared in Italian on La Rivista della Natura) A huge back breaks the calm surface of the Mediterranean in front of Jaffa, attracting the attention of Aviad Scheinin, of the Israel Marine Mammal Research & Assistance Centre. It is the morning of 8 May 2010, and Aviad is surveying the . . . → Read More: The unlikely tourist whale Image via Wikipedia (adapted from an article appeared in Italian on La Rivista della Natura) Towards the end of last summer the welcome news arrived that great white sharks still exist in the Mediterranean. A newborn female, slightly longer than 1.5 m, sadly met her fate in the bottom of a trawl net. . . . → Read More: Debunking myths on Mediterranean great white sharks Image via Wikipedia Days ago we learned from the news that a team of marine biologists from the University of Haifa discovered a reef of deep-sea coral at a depth of 700 m, about 20 nautical miles west of Tel Aviv. This is not the first time that deep-sea coral, also known as . . . → Read More: Aphrodite was born in an oilfield  2 comments - (Comments are closed)  human impacts, marine species  deep-sea protection, Ecology, Mediterranean Sea, oil exploration, white coral Image by Eric Schwartzman via Flickr The first in the list of “50 things to do before you die” as nominated by BBC TV viewers, is swimming with a dolphin. Regardless of the many psychological explanations that may be summoned to account for this oddity of human behaviour, the simple truth is that . . . → Read More: The scam of dolphin-assisted therapy If you thought that the environmental damage from the infamous Deepwater Horizon oilrig was bad – with its discharge of almost 5 million barrels into the Gulf of Mexico during the past few months – consider that during the coming decade up to 20 times that amount of oil will start leaking into the . . . → Read More: Sitting blissfully on a deep-sea time bomb Three days ago colleagues working with HEPCA, an environmental NGO very active in the field of marine conservation in the Red Sea, discovered a small pool hidden in a private courtyard in Hurghada where four bottlenose dolphins (apparently imported from Japan) are being kept in appalling conditions. The dolphins were parked there in quarantine, . . . → Read More: Dolphin captivity attempts risk metastasizing the Egyptian Red Sea coast |
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