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Help Restore the Gulf

Please ask your Senators to support the RESTORE Act (S. 1400) to ensure that fines collected from the BP oil spill are used to support ecosystem restoration in the Gulf of Mexico.

The BP disaster released millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf, causing devastating impacts to the region’s beaches, coastal marshes, barrier islands, and wildlife. Yet, unless Congress takes action, fines issued through the Clean Water Act will be used for unrelated federal spending instead of urgently needed environmental restoration. 

Restoring the Gulf will provide major benefits to the natural environment, and will also help protect the region’s economy including tourism, recreation, and commercial fishing.

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What the fuck is wrong people? mad-as-a-marine-biologist: take-nothing-but-photos: Shark massacre reported in Colombian waters Environmental authorities say up to 2,000 hammerhead, Galápagos and whale sharks were slaughtered for their fins Colombian environmental authorities have reported a huge shark massacre in the Malpelo wildlife sanctuary in Colombia’s Pacific waters, where as many as 2,000 hammerhead, Galápagos and silky sharks may have been slaughtered for their fins. Sandra Bessudo, the Colombian president’s top adviser on environmental issues, said a team of divers who were studying sharks in the region reported the mass killing in the waters surrounding the rock-island known as Malpelo, some 500 kilometres from the mainland. “I received a report, which is really unbelievable, from one of the divers who came from Russia to observe the large concentrations of sharks in Malpelo. They saw a large number of fishing trawlers entering the zone illegally,” Bessudo said. The divers counted a total of 10 fishing boats, which all were flying the Costa Rican flag. “When the divers dove, they started finding a large number of animals without their fins. They didn’t see any alive,” she said. One of the divers provided a video that shows the finless bodies of dead sharks on the ocean floor.  What horrible news to wake up to. Schooling hammerheads is #1 on my list of nature things to see before I die.

What the fuck is wrong people?

mad-as-a-marine-biologist:

take-nothing-but-photos:

Shark massacre reported in Colombian waters

Environmental authorities say up to 2,000 hammerhead, Galápagos and whale sharks were slaughtered for their fins

Colombian environmental authorities have reported a huge shark massacre in the Malpelo wildlife sanctuary in Colombia’s Pacific waters, where as many as 2,000 hammerhead, Galápagos and silky sharks may have been slaughtered for their fins.

Sandra Bessudo, the Colombian president’s top adviser on environmental issues, said a team of divers who were studying sharks in the region reported the mass killing in the waters surrounding the rock-island known as Malpelo, some 500 kilometres from the mainland.

“I received a report, which is really unbelievable, from one of the divers who came from Russia to observe the large concentrations of sharks in Malpelo. They saw a large number of fishing trawlers entering the zone illegally,” Bessudo said. The divers counted a total of 10 fishing boats, which all were flying the Costa Rican flag.

“When the divers dove, they started finding a large number of animals without their fins. They didn’t see any alive,” she said. One of the divers provided a video that shows the finless bodies of dead sharks on the ocean floor.

 What horrible news to wake up to. Schooling hammerheads is #1 on my list of nature things to see before I die.

(Source: -sherl0ckbr0lmes)

Rise. Above. Plastics & Just wash the damn spoon! (image via Surfrider Foundation)

Rise. Above. Plastics & Just wash the damn spoon!

(image via Surfrider Foundation)

Visually captivating footage demonstrating the international scope of the first Census of Marine Life.

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Sand Trap (by Ramón Domínguez) Titled “Underwater Sadness,” a photograph of a sea turtle caught in a net in the Sea of Cortez won third place in the “Environment and Conservation” category in DEEP Indonesia/Barcroft/Fame Pictures contest. (Learn how to protect the ocean with National Geographic.)

Sand Trap (by Ramón Domínguez)

Titled “Underwater Sadness,” a photograph of a sea turtle caught in a net in the Sea of Cortez won third place in the “Environment and Conservation” category in DEEP Indonesia/Barcroft/Fame Pictures contest.

(Learn how to protect the ocean with National Geographic.)

(Source: lsd-island)

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