The first is now open, accepting Threatened Species and Rapid Action Grants. Deadline for applications is August 12, 2011.聽
An international panel of experts warns in a report released today that marine species are at risk of entering a phase of extinction unprecedented in human history.
Meet Flex. Flex belongs to the highly threatened population of western gray whales. He has been tagged by satellite and tracked by scientists in the hope to discover the migration routes of the species and ways to better protect it from threats such as accidental entanglement in fishing gear,鈥
In October 2010, a team of scientists from Russia and the United States satellite tagged a western gray whale off Sakhalin Island, Russia. This is the first individual from the Critically Endangered western gray whale population to be tagged and tracked using telemetry. This whale, nicknamed鈥
The oil and gas company Sakhalin Energy Investment Company (Sakhalin Energy) announced on December 4th its intention to begin planning for construction of a third offshore oil and gas platform in the Piltun-Astokh field along the coast of Sakhalin Island, eastern Russia. As this platform would鈥
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A team of scientists from Russia and the United States聽has successfully tagged and is tracking by satellite an individual from one of the world鈥檚 most endangered whale populations 鈥 a western gray whale - off the coast of Russia鈥檚 Sakhalin Island. 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 has been involved in the tagging and鈥
香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播's High Seas Policy Advisor, Kristina Gjerde, studies the law of the high seas - the 64% of our ocean that lies beyond聽national legislation. She recently gave a TED Talk presentation outlining some of the problems facing the open oceans and what can be done about them.聽Stunning聽photos show鈥
At the International Whaling Commission (IWC) annual meeting in Agadir, Morocco, scientists warned that a seismic survey planned off Sakhalin Island by the Russian petroleum company Rosneft could seriously threaten the critically endangered Western Gray Whale population.