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Take a look at the 10 most plastic polluting rivers in the world. Remember these may be the top 10 but that does not mean we should ignore other polluted waterways or slack on dealing with our own polluted areas.
Read more from Scientific American : https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plastic-tide-10-rivers-contribute-most-of-the-plastic-in-the-oceans/ This post was part of the September 13th Seven Seas Report. Help defend the oceans. Support sustainable fishing and aquaculture/agriculture practices. Don't pollute your local waterways. Donate to your local marine conservation charity. Image courtesy of Pixabay.com The tidepools of La Jolla, California are being visited at a much higher rate due to on going pandemic precautions. Normally many of these visitors would be at theme parks or other temporarily closed venues. The swift rise in people in the area has began to damage the fragile ecosystem of the tidepools. Local environmentalists are offering tips on how to safely visit these beautiful natural attractions in order to lower the risk of damaging the tidepools and the wildlife that call them home.
Read more from La Jolla Light : www.lajollalight.com/news/story/2020-09-11/la-jolla-tidepools-are-being-loved-to-death-environmentalists-say This post was part of the September 13th Seven Seas Report. Help defend the oceans. Support sustainable fishing and aquaculture/agriculture practices. Don't pollute your local waterways. Donate to your local marine conservation charity. Image courtesy of Pixabay.com Project Jonah will be teaching a whale rescue course in Timaru, New Zealand. Project Jonah hosts an annuam Marine Mammel Medic course tour that teaches such things as "stranding rescue techniques" and rescure training that utilizes a
"life-size, life-weight whale and dolphin". Read more from Timaru Herald : https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/122690387/project-jonah-to-bring-whale-rescue-training-course-to-timaru This post was part of the September 13th Seven Seas Report. Help defend the oceans. Support sustainable fishing and aquaculture/agriculture practices. Don't pollute your local waterways. Donate to your local marine conservation charity. Image courtesy of Pixabay.com via Port Sundries https://www.facebook.com/portsundries/photos/a.150950103375256/150950083375258/?type=3 For the first time, researchers have used the individual whistles (calls) of dolphins to estimate the number of specimens. The technique was used with the Common Bottlemose dolphins of Namibia and is currently be worked on to be used with other species.
Read more from EurekAlert : https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/su-idc083120.php This post was part of the September 13th Seven Seas Report. Help defend the oceans. Support sustainable fishing and aquaculture/agriculture practices. Don't pollute your local waterways. Donate to your local marine conservation charity. Image courtesy of Pixabay.com Humpback whales have been sighted for the first time in the rivers of the East Alligator River. Two of the three are believed to have already return to the ocean. The authorities have "set up a partial exclusion zone to protect unwitting boaters and any remaining whales, which can grow up to 16 metres long and weigh 30 tonnes". This is to help insure there are no vessel/whale collisions and that boats do not push the whale up river.
Read more from Phys Org : phys.org/news/2020-09-humpback-whales-stray-tropical-aussie.html This post was part of the September 13th Seven Seas Report. Help defend the oceans. Support sustainable fishing and aquaculture/agriculture practices. Don't pollute your local waterways. Donate to your local marine conservation charity. Image courtesy of Pixabay.com In today's Seven Seas Bulletin we take a look at whales in the wrong place, using dolphin calls to estimate wild pod numbers, whale rescue training in Timaru, La Jolla, California's famous tidepools are being "loved to death", and the 10 rivers that contribute the most plastic pollution.
"life-size, life-weight whale and dolphin".
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