Marine Species
Mongabay.com: Two threatened whale groups had a mini baby boom, but not because of lockdown
Banner image: Right whale Catalog #3125 skim feeding in Cape Cod Bay. Credit: Anderson Cabot Center/New England Aquarium. Collected under NMFS Permit #14233. Two threatened whale groups had a mini baby boom, but not because of lockdown BY LAUREL NEME ON 5 OCTOBER 2021 Two rare whale groups — southern resident killer whales in the Pacific…
Read MoreThe New York Times for Kids Magazine: Vibe Check: How Animals Show They’re Happy
By Laurel Neme, illustrations by TKTKTK Published in the New York Times Kids Magazine, March 28, 2021 Read this story as a pdf – Vibe Check: How Animals Show They’re Happy
Read MoreNational Geographic: New Protections For World’s Largest Population of Giant Manta Rays
Peru and 12 other nations now seek to protect these creatures, whose meat and gill plates are coveted in China. By Laurel Neme PUBLISHED Fri Jan 08, 2016 Giant manta rays captured the world’s attention last April when a fisherman in northern Peru unintentionally caught a behemoth weighing 2,000 pounds (900 kilograms). The accidental snagging of this large ray…
Read MoreMongabay.com: Seahorses Under Stress
By Laurel Neme, special to mongabay.com November 21, 2011 This interview originally aired on January 17, 2011. It was transcribed by Dustin Circe. With about 25 million seahorses sold each year, global consumption of seahorses is massive. They’re used in traditional Asian medicine and also sold as curios and aquarium pets. Over the last decade, overexploitation and habitat…
Read MoreMongabay.com: Covert Creatures: The Clandestine Lives of Seahorses
By Laurel Neme, special to mongabay.comNovember 15, 2011 This interview originally aired on January 17, 2011. It was transcribed by Dustin Circe. Seahorses are strange looking creatures, with a horse’s head on top of a kangaroo’s pouched belly, bulging, swiveling chameleon eyes, a prehensile monkey tail, color-changing armor and a royal crown, all shrunk down to…
Read MoreCoral Reef Opera
From JeffCorwinConnect Citizen Blog: If you ever wanted ideas for a new soap opera, coral reefs would be the place to go. These colonies of tiny living animals not only provide vital ecological services, such as protecting shorelines, but are also home to some of the most diverse-and strange-creatures on the planet. Dive a few meters below…
Read MoreMongabay.com: The biology and conservation of declining coral reefs, an interview with Kristian Teleki
By Laurel Neme, special to mongabay.com August 15, 2010 Kristian Teleki, Vice President for Science Initiatives for SeaWeb and former Director of the International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN), spoke with Laurel Neme on her “The WildLife” radio show and podcast about the biology of corals, threats to coral reefs, and what can be done to halt their…
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