<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:47:35 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>Marine Life - Latest</title><subtitle>Marine Life - Latest</subtitle><id>http://www.gaiadiscovery.com/marine-life-latest/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.gaiadiscovery.com/marine-life-latest/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.gaiadiscovery.com/marine-life-latest/atom.xml"/><updated>2012-01-26T06:12:20Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>Fish Depletion, Marine Habitats Destruction in the Philippines</title><category term="Conservation"/><category term="Consumption"/><category term="Fish shortage"/><category term="MBRLC"/><category term="Marine Habitats"/><category term="Reef Monitoring"/><category term="exhaustion"/><category term="mangrove deforestation"/><category term="phillipines"/><category term="resources"/><category term="scarcity"/><id>http://www.gaiadiscovery.com/marine-life-latest/fish-depletion-marine-habitats-destruction-in-the-philippine.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.gaiadiscovery.com/marine-life-latest/fish-depletion-marine-habitats-destruction-in-the-philippine.html"/><author><name>Gaia Discovery</name></author><published>2011-11-04T12:41:33Z</published><updated>2011-11-04T12:41:33Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[A look at threats to Philippine fishery and causes incorporating marine habitats, ocean fishing, mangrove and seagrass.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Red Tide, Dinoflagellates and Health Risks in the Philippines</title><category term="PSP"/><category term="Red Tide"/><category term="bahanse"/><category term="dinoflagellates"/><category term="discoloration"/><category term="flagella"/><category term="paralytic shellfish poisoning"/><category term="poisonous"/><category term="pyrodinium"/><category term="toxins"/><category term="var.compressum"/><id>http://www.gaiadiscovery.com/marine-life-latest/red-tide-dinoflagellates-and-health-risks-in-the-philippines.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.gaiadiscovery.com/marine-life-latest/red-tide-dinoflagellates-and-health-risks-in-the-philippines.html"/><author><name>Gaia Discovery</name></author><published>2011-11-04T12:31:01Z</published><updated>2011-11-04T12:31:01Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[Red tide is a natural phenomenon brought about by the bloom or predominance of a floating microscopic organism known as dinoflagellates. The name red tide was coined due to the sea water discoloration which ranges from amber, red, brown, yellow orange to purple caused by the highly-dense population of dinoflagellates.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Marine NGO Problems: Financing, Local Empowerment &amp; Economics</title><category term="Blue Ventures Malaysia"/><category term="Conservation"/><category term="Marine Coral Watch"/><category term="NGO Funding"/><category term="Reef Monitoring"/><category term="Reefwatch Australia"/><category term="Regulation"/><category term="TSRCP"/><category term="Voluntourism"/><id>http://www.gaiadiscovery.com/marine-life-latest/marine-ngo-problems-financing-local-empowerment-economics.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.gaiadiscovery.com/marine-life-latest/marine-ngo-problems-financing-local-empowerment-economics.html"/><author><name>Gaia Discovery</name></author><published>2011-09-30T06:05:57Z</published><updated>2011-09-30T06:05:57Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[Because NGOs are private, they face many problems that private business encounter – but without a profit to keep them going.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Fiji Coral Farming: Transplanted Corals Provide for Livelihoods</title><category term="CITES"/><category term="Coral Farming"/><category term="Coral Farming"/><category term="Coral Trade"/><category term="Coral bleaching"/><category term="Corals"/><category term="Corals for Conservation"/><category term="Reef Restoration"/><id>http://www.gaiadiscovery.com/marine-life-latest/fiji-coral-farming-transplanted-corals-provide-for-livelihoo.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.gaiadiscovery.com/marine-life-latest/fiji-coral-farming-transplanted-corals-provide-for-livelihoo.html"/><author><name>Gaia Discovery</name></author><published>2011-04-21T03:04:13Z</published><updated>2011-04-21T03:04:13Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[In some parts of the world, corals are dying back and bleaching faster than anybody can remember. But it’s not all despair, as thanks to many groups of Corals for Conservation divers round the world, corals are springing back to life as well as a well-tended front lawn.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Tuna Handline Fishing in Philippines to Meet Marine Stewardship Council Sustainability Criteria</title><category term="Blueyou Consultancy"/><category term="Coral Triangle"/><category term="Handline fishery"/><category term="Marine Stewardship Council"/><category term="Overfishing"/><category term="Philippine Bureau of Fisheries"/><category term="Tuna Strategy"/><category term="WWF"/><category term="Yellowfin tuna"/><id>http://www.gaiadiscovery.com/marine-life-latest/tuna-handline-fishing-in-philippines-to-meet-marine-stewards.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.gaiadiscovery.com/marine-life-latest/tuna-handline-fishing-in-philippines-to-meet-marine-stewards.html"/><author><name>Gaia Discovery</name></author><published>2011-03-31T10:00:22Z</published><updated>2011-03-31T10:00:22Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[Tuna handline fishers in the Philippines now have a better chance at competing in European markets through a private-public partnership between WWF, Blueyou Consultancy, European seafood companies and the Government of Germany.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Coral Triangle Reef Fish Overfishing Crisis Made Worse by Dynamite, Cyanide Use</title><category term="Coral Triangle"/><category term="Dr Geoffrey Muldoon"/><category term="Ministry of Marine Affairs"/><category term="Reef Fishing sustainability"/><category term="WWF"/><id>http://www.gaiadiscovery.com/marine-life-latest/coral-triangle-reef-fish-overfishing-crisis-made-worse-by-dy.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.gaiadiscovery.com/marine-life-latest/coral-triangle-reef-fish-overfishing-crisis-made-worse-by-dy.html"/><author><name>Gaia Discovery</name></author><published>2011-03-05T13:11:43Z</published><updated>2011-03-05T13:11:43Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[Government agencies, NGOs, research institutions, academia, and the private sector are to meet to discuss the trade in live reef fish, one of the most lucrative – and damaging - industries in the Coral Triangle.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Calcium Carbonate: A Possible Solution to Store Carbon Dioxide and Help Reef Growth Too?</title><category term="CO2 emissions"/><category term="CaCO3"/><category term="Calcium Carbonate"/><category term="Coral Reef growth"/><category term="Dr. Greg Rau"/><category term="Dr. Thomas Goreau"/><category term="Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory"/><category term="Seawater CO2 capture"/><id>http://www.gaiadiscovery.com/marine-life-latest/calcium-carbonate-a-possible-solution-to-store-carbon-dioxid.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.gaiadiscovery.com/marine-life-latest/calcium-carbonate-a-possible-solution-to-store-carbon-dioxid.html"/><author><name>Gaia Discovery</name></author><published>2011-02-11T01:51:08Z</published><updated>2011-02-11T01:51:08Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[A new technique developed at the Lawrence Livermore Labs could offer a way to scrub CO2 from power station exhausts - and offer coral reefs and organisms a helping hand with raw materials at the same time.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Scuba Divers Strengthened Support for EU Shark Finning Ban</title><category term="European community legislation"/><category term="Scuba diver activists ﻿"/><category term="Shark Finning"/><category term="Shark fin soup"/><category term="Shark fins"/><category term="Sharks drowning"/><category term="project aware"/><id>http://www.gaiadiscovery.com/marine-life-latest/scuba-divers-strengthened-support-for-eu-shark-finning-ban.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.gaiadiscovery.com/marine-life-latest/scuba-divers-strengthened-support-for-eu-shark-finning-ban.html"/><author><name>Gaia Discovery</name></author><published>2010-12-21T00:50:47Z</published><updated>2010-12-21T00:50:47Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[European diver activists convince key members of the European Parliament to upgrade legislation for a total ban on shark finning on European vessels.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Review: Reef Creature Identification, Tropical Pacific by Ned Deloach and Paul Humann. A 500-page Guide on Mobile Marine Invertebrates.</title><id>http://www.gaiadiscovery.com/marine-life-latest/review-reef-creature-identification-tropical-pacific-by-ned.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.gaiadiscovery.com/marine-life-latest/review-reef-creature-identification-tropical-pacific-by-ned.html"/><author><name>Gaia Discovery</name></author><published>2010-10-31T05:44:34Z</published><updated>2010-10-31T05:44:34Z</updated></entry><entry><title>Take Action: Restore Coral Reefs and Prevent Beach Erosion with Biorock</title><category term="Biodiversity"/><category term="Biorock"/><category term="Conservation"/><category term="Conservation"/><category term="Coral health"/><category term="Marine LIfe"/><category term="Marine Science"/><category term="Reef Restoration"/><category term="Restoration"/><id>http://www.gaiadiscovery.com/marine-life-latest/take-action-restore-coral-reefs-and-prevent-beach-erosion-wi.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.gaiadiscovery.com/marine-life-latest/take-action-restore-coral-reefs-and-prevent-beach-erosion-wi.html"/><author><name>Gaia Discovery</name></author><published>2010-09-30T03:56:20Z</published><updated>2010-09-30T03:56:20Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[After six years of creating new coral reefs, the folks in Gili Trawangan are ready for more. In November this year, more structures will be built and laid down underwater following a workshop built in with hands-on training. The 7th Indonesian Biorock reef restoration and shore protection training workshop 15-21 November 2010 is organised by The Gili Eco Trust and the Global Coral Reef Alliance. Read about it as well as the Gili Trawangan reef restoration story here.]]></summary></entry></feed>
