Reuters
| Mar 12, 2013
A surge in visitors wanting to swim with whale sharks has been a bonanza for a once little-visited part of Cebu, Philippines, but biologists fear that the practice of hand-feeding the gentle giants to lure them to the area will create long-term pr...
Noel Hall
| Nov 25, 2012
A group of divers dwarfed by a massive whale shark swam to its rescue near Socorro Island south of Baja, Mexico, when they spotted a heavy rope wrapped so tightly around the giant creature's girth that it was cutting deeply into its flesh. One of ...
Newsy
| Oct 2, 2012
Australian scientists have discovered more than half of the coral cover at the Great Barrier Reef has disappeared, due to to climate change and rapacious coral-eating starfish.
ABC News (Australia)
| Jun 11, 2012
The ABC has obtained a draft Federal Environment Department proposal that details a huge expansion of Australia's marine parks. The Australian environment minister Tony Burke has been promised the "fight of his life" after commercial fishermen sai...
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 29, 2012
Fishermen in Malaysia say the increased presence of foreign cargo ships is destroying coral reefs at an alarming rate, causing a severe shortage of game for the locals. Shipping companies have found it to be less costly and more beneficial to kee...
— yesterday at 04:28 pm
...N.H. (AP) — A nonprofit group that promotes marine conservation has been selected to move into a small storefront at Hampton Beach State Park. T...
— May 15 at 08:50 pm
...the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a marine wildlife and ecosystem protection group. It entails how the organisation chooses methods to comm...
— about 8 hours ago
...into a small storefront at Hampton Beach State Park. The Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation was one of two groups vying to occupy the re...
Marine conservation, also known as marine resources conservation, is the protection and preservation of ecosystems in oceans and seas. Marine conservation focuses on limiting human-caused damage to marine ecosystems, and on restoring damaged marine ecosystems. Marine conservation also focuses on preserving vulnerable marine species.
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