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BIOTOPE AQUARIA -- Southern Thailand Forest Creek Biotope
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Cryptocoryne in waterfall pool picture to right
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Waterfall, Khao Sok
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Rocky Creek, Khao Sok
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Rocky Creek, Khao Sok
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Rocky Creek, Khao Sok
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Plants growing in and along side creek above
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Khao Sok
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Vegetation, Khao Sok
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Vegetation, Khao Sok
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Vegetation, Khao Sok
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Vegetation, Khao Sok
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Vegetation, Khao Sok
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Vegetation, Khao Sok
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Tadpole
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Forest pool, S. Thailand
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Freshwater puffer
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Forest pool, Khao Sok
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Vegetation
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Forest pool, Khao Sok
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Forest pool, Khao Sok
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Vegetation
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Forest pool, Khao Sok
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Forest pool, Khao Sok
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Khao Sok
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Forest pool, Khao Sok
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Forest pool, Khao Sok
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Khao Sok
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Forest pool, Khao Sok
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Forest pool, Khao Sok
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Forest pool, Khao Sok
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Recent news
Wildlife in the tropics plummets by over 60 percent
(05/15/2012)
In 48 years wildlife populations in the tropics, the region that holds the bulk of the world's biodiversity, have fallen by an alarming 61 percent, according to the most recent update to the Living Planet Index. Produced by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), the index currently tracks almost 10,000 populations of 2,688 vertebrate species (including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish) in both the tropics and temperate regions.
Educating the next generation of conservation leaders in Colombia
(05/14/2012)
Colombia's northern departments of Cordoba and Bolivar are home to an abundance of coral reefs, estuaries, mangroves forests, and forests. Rich in both marine and terrestrial wildlife, local communities depend on the sea and land for survival, yet these ecosystems are imperiled by booming populations, overexploitation, and unsustainable management. Since 2007, an innovative education program in the region, the Guardians of Nature, has worked to teach local children about the ecology of the region, hoping to instill a conservation ethic that will aid both the present and the future.
Manta rays tracked by satellite
(05/11/2012)
Satellite tracking technology has revealed new insights into the behavior of manta rays, reports the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). The findings are published in this week's issue of the journal PLoS.
Featured video: the oceans and Rio+20
(05/10/2012)
A new video by Pew Environment Group and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) hopes to convince policy-makers attending the Rio+20 Summit on Sustainable Development this summer that urgent action is needed to save the ocean's from an environmental crisis.
Over 30 Yangtze porpoises found dead in China as population nears extinction
(05/01/2012)
Six years after the Yangtze river dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer), or baiji, was declared "functionally extinct" by scientists, another marine mammal appears on the edge of extinction in China's hugely degraded Yangtze River. In less than two months, 32 Yangtze finless porpoises (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis), a subspecies of the finless porpoise, have been dead found in Dongting and Poyang Lakes in the Yangtze, reports the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
Carnage in Komodo: world-famous reef destroyed by poachers' bombs
(04/25/2012)
Illegal fishermen have been utilizing homemade bombs to kill fish off the coast of Komodo Island, Indonesia, reports the Associated Press (AP); the bombs have not only injured fish populations in the protected area, but has also blasted biodiverse coral reefs popular with tourists. A scuba teacher told the AP that a section of Tatawa Besar coral reef, a popular diving spot, had been "blasted, ripped off, turned upside down."
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