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Biotopes by Country
Africa Biotopes Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Cameroon Central African Republic Chad CongoDR Congo Rep Cote d Ivoire Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea-Bissau Guinea Kenya Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia Sudan Tanzania Togo Zambia Zimbabwe Asia Biotopes Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia East Timor Hong Kong India Indonesia Japan Laos Malaysia Myanmar Nepal Pakistan Philippines Singapore Thailand VietNam Caribbean Biotopes Cuba Dominican Republic Haiti Jamaica Puerto Rico Trinidad and Tobago US Virgin Islands Central America Biotopes Belize Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama North America Biotopes USA Australia & Oceania & Misc Islands Biotopes Australia French Polynesia Guam Hawaii Maldives Marshall Islands Mauritius Micronesia New Caledonia Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Seychelles Solomon Islands Sri Lanka Tahiti Taiwan Vanuatu South America Biotopes Bolivia Brazil Colombia Ecuador French Guiana Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uganda Uruguay Venezuela Ecosystems Africa - Central Africa : Congo_Zaire Lake Kivu Africa - East Africa : Sabaki River Tana River Africa - North Africa : Nile Africa - Rift Lakes : Lake Chad Lake Liambezi Lake Malawi Lake Rukwa Lake Tanganyika Lake Turkana Lake Victoria Africa - Southern Africa : Chobe Okavango River Orange Shire Zambezi Kwando River Linyanti Africa - West Africa : Agnebi Bandama River Benue River Bia River Buba River Casamance River Cross River Gambia River Kariba Little Scarcies Niger River Ogun River Rokel Saint John Saint Paul Saloum Senegal River Volta Weme Comoé River Corubal River Ebrie Fatala Geba Kainji Lake Kogon Kolente Konkoure Loffa Mano Mao Mono River Nipoue Pra Sassandra Sewa Tano Asia - India : Brahmaputra River Cavally River Ganges Indus Krishna River Chilka Lake Chittar River Godavari Asia - Japan : Lake Biwa Asia - Philippines : Lake Buluan Lake Lanao Taal Asia - Southeast Asia : Amudar'ya Chao Praya River Irrawaddy Mekong River Salween Eurasia : Danube Lake Baikal Seine Loire Rhine Middle East : Euphrates Tigris North America - USA : Great Lakes Lake Waccamaw Mississippi South America : Amazon River Araguaia River Madeira Magdalena Maranon Orinoco Para-Tocantins Paraguay River Parana Rio Negro Sao Francisco Uruguay River Purus Saltwater / Marine / Reef Saltwater Great Barrier Reef Saltwater_Hawaiian_Insular Saltwater_Persian_Gulf Saltwater_Peru-Galapagos Saltwater_Polynesia Saltwater_Red_Sea |
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Recent news
Atlantic sturgeon gains protection under the Endangered Species Act (02/01/2012) The U.S. federal government has listed the massive and bizarre Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus) under the protection of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Historically overfishing decimated the Atlantic sturgeon, while on-going threats include pollution and infrastructure, like dams and bridges that destroy habitat. Fishing for the Atlantic sturgeon has been banned since 1998, they are still caught as bycatch. Photos: 46 new species found in little-explored Amazonian nation (01/25/2012) South America's tiniest independent nation still hides a number of big surprises: a three week survey to the sourthern rainforests of Suriname found 46 potentially new species and recorded nearly 1,300 species in all. Undertaken by Conservation International's (CI) Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) the survey found new species of freshwater fish, insects, and a new frog dubbed the "cowboy frog" for the spur on its heel. While Suriname may be small, much of its forest, in the Guyana Shield region of the Amazon, remains intact and pristine. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 91 percent of Suriname is covered in primary forests, however this data has not been updated in over two decades. Featured video: tuna industry bycatch includes sea turtles, dolphins, whales (01/16/2012) A Greenpeace video, using footage from a whistleblower, shows disturbing images of the tuna industry operating in the unregulated waters of the Pacific Ocean. Using fish aggregation devices (FADs) and purse seine nets, the industry is not only able to catch entire schools of tuna, including juvenile, but also whatever else is in the area of the net. Bycatch-reducing fish trap wins $20,000 (01/11/2012) An innovative fish trap that allows small non-target fish to escape won a new content by RARE Conservation and National Geographic to fund solutions to overfishing. Developed through studies in Curaçao and Kenya with the Wildlife Conservation Society, the trap has gaps for juvenile fish to swim out of reportedly reducing bycatch by 80 percent. The entry won a $20,000 grant. World's most expensive tuna (01/05/2012) A 593 pound Pacific bluefin tuna sold for $735,000 (56.49 million yen) in Tokyo's Tsukiji market today. This beats the previous record price hit last year by over $260,000. Why so expensive? Bluefin tuna, considered the best sashimi and sushi in the world, have been fished to near extinction with the population of the Pacific bluefin the most stable to date. Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2011 (12/22/2011) Many of 2011's most dramatic stories on environmental issues came from people taking to the streets. With governments and corporations slow to tackle massive environmental problems, people have begun to assert themselves. Victories were seen on four continents: in Bolivia a draconian response to protestors embarrassed the government, causing them to drop plans to build a road through Tipnis, an indigenous Amazonian reserve; in Myanmar, a nation not known for bowing to public demands, large protests pushed the government to cancel a massive Chinese hydroelectric project; in Borneo a three-year struggle to stop the construction of a coal plant on the coast of the Coral Triangle ended in victory for activists; in Britain plans to privatize forests created such a public outcry that the government not only pulled back but also apologized; and in the U.S. civil disobedience and massive marches pressured the Obama Administration to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar sands from Canada to a global market. |
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