Tag Archive: conservation

Coral Reef Biodiversity may be Vastly Underestimated via Coral reef biodiversity may be vastly underestimated. Researchers with the Smithsonian have catalogued almost as many crab species on tropical coral reef bits measuring just 20.6 square feet (6.3 square meters) as in all of Europe’s seas, finds a new paper in PLoS ONE. The team used DNA […]

The Day All The Sharks Died – A lesson on the impact of shark finning This is a short story, featured in the book ‘Sharklife – True Stories about Sharks and the Sea‘ by Peter Benchley (the writer of ‘Jaws’). For those interested in the sea, in sharks or marine conservation, the book is a […]