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South Africa's Sardine Run

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Sardine Run South Africa - The Greatest Shoal on Earth

(Dive Travel Business News - January 22, 2012) -- This article is provided by shark specialist Debbie Smith, owner of  eco-tourism company Diving With Sharks. Her specialty area is annual Sardine Run in South Africa. read more »

Urgent Action Required - What you Can Do to Stop Whaling

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What you can do to help the whales

(Dive Travel Business News - April 27, 2010) -- HUFFINGTON POST --

A Sea of Deceit and Capitulation

by Edward Dorson
April 25, 2010

The trajectory of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), meeting in Morocco this June, is on a disastrous course for the world's whales. A new proposal to resume commercial whaling will be presented at the IWC summit. Simply put, it's an awful deal. In order to foresee the fate of the whales with this proposal on the table, look no further than how all the marine species fared at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) last month, where each and every proposed aquatic species was denied protection. This was a Japanese orchestrated "victory," and the same bullying, vote swapping and "influencing" that Japan deployed at CITES to prevent marine protection is also entrenched to dictate the fate of the whales at the IWC. read more »

The One Thing We Can Do on Earth Day - and Every Day - to Help Save Our Oceans.

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On Earth Day - Don't Eat Tuna

(Dive Travel Business News - April 22, 2010) -- At Beneath the Sea this past March, we heard it straight from Her Deepness, when legendary oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle was conducting a seminar with renowned marine artist Wyland entitled, "Ten Years to Save Our Oceans."

Asked what is the one thing we can do to help the oceans in time, Dr. Earle's reply was:
"Don't eat tuna." read more »