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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
Using fish as livestock feed threatens global fisheries (11/18/2009) Fish doesn't just feed humans. Millions of tons of fish are fed every year to chickens, pigs, and even farmed fish even in the midst of rising concerns over fish stocks collapses around the world. Finding an alternative to fish as livestock feed would go a long way toward preventing the collapse of fish populations worldwide according to a new paper in Oryx. ICCAT fails to protect critically endangered tuna—again (11/15/2009) The International Commissions for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT) ignored the advice of its scientists to end fishing of the Atlantic bluefin tuna. Instead ICAAT set a quota of 13,500 tons of fish. This is not the first time ICCAT has flouted its own researchers' advice: it has repeatedly set quotas well-above its researchers' recommendations. Governments, public failing to save world's species (11/04/2009) According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) 2008 report, released yesterday, 36 percent of the total species evaluated by the organization are threatened with extinction. If one adds the species classified as Near Threatened, the percentage jumps to 44 percent—nearly half. Atlantic bluefin tuna should be banned internationally: ICCAT scientists (10/29/2009) Scientists with the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT) have said in a new report that a global ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna fishing is justified. ICCAT meets in November to decide if they will follow their scientist's recommendations. The Yangtze River may have lost another inhabitant: the Chinese paddlefish (10/22/2009) In December of 2006 it was announced that the Yangtze River dolphin, commonly known as the baiji, had succumbed to extinction. The dolphin had survived on earth for 20 million years, but the species couldn't survive the combined onslaught of pollution, habitat loss, boat traffic, entanglement in fishing hooks, death from illegal electric fishing, and the construction of several massive dams. Now, another flagship species of the Yangtze River appears to have vanished. Freshwater species worse off than land or marine (10/15/2009) Scientists have announced that freshwater species are likely the most threatened on earth. Extinction rates for freshwater inhabitants are currently four to six times the rates for terrestrial and marine species. Yet, these figures have not lead to action on the ground. |
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