Conservation

Bottom trawling for orange roughies to get green light?

The roughy, slimehead (the US didn’t like that name,) or “deep-sea perch” is in trouble. Having been preserved to some extent for a while, some industrial-scale New Zealand fisheries seem...

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Pacific bluefin tuna nears a critical state.

The sheer magnificence of a high-performance, 3m (9.8 feet) predator in the North Pacific should excite anybody, but many still prefer to feast on the last few tuna left, 80%...

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International Bat Weekend is Here!

There are only18 species of bat in the islands of the UK, which is a poor record compared to European or North American numbers. They range from the 5g pipistrelle...

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Lobsters lose out to global warming

This lady is in possession of the planktonic future of lobster larvae off Cape Cod. She is marked with a V-shaped notch to record her active breeding status. American lobster...

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Save Tropical Forest, NOW!

The blue morpho male butterflies, in this case Morpho rhetenor, are iconic, representative of the high canopies in which they fly effortlessly out-of-reach. With the old giant trees almost all...

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