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  • Take Action for Sharks, Starting With Your Grocery List

    July 9, 2015
    Guest Blogger

    Shark Week is already off to a sharktastic start, with lots of jawsome shark facts, images, stories and sharkisms swimming around cyberspace. This week is about getting to know these amazing creatures, sharing stories and inspiring people to take action to ensure our oceans are safer and healthier for the more than 400 magnificent species of ocean lions.

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  • Study Finds Bering Sea’s Pribilof Canyon a Hotspot for Important Corals and Sponges

    July 6, 2015

    A new study by the Marine Science Institute at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Greenpeace has concluded that the Pribilof canyon is the most significant location for deep sea corals and sponges along the entire eastern Bering Sea shelf. The study, which was published in Global Ecology and Conservation, also found that restricting bottom-contact fishing in Bering Sea canyons would not have significant negative impacts on the fishing industry.

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  • Boreal Forest

    June 29, 2015

    Canada is home to nearly a quarter of the world’s remaining intact forests. But with only 8 percent of the country’s forest land permanently protected, logging poses a major threat to the people and wildlife that call the forest home.

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