Save the Golfo Dulce from the Tuna Farms

Governmental approval for a tuna farm project at the mouth of Costa Rica’s Golfo Dulce – located along the country’s remote southern Pacific coast – threatens the area’s water quality, local economic resources, and natural stocks of tropical Pacific tuna. On February 16th 2009 the National Technical Environmental Secretary (SETENA) rejected an appeal for annulment, deciding instead to go ahead with the apporval od the Tuna Farm in Golfito. However, this decision has come without clearing up the issues stated in the Environmental Impact Assessement.

Beyond Blue has dedicated an issue to the controversial topic of aquaculture in our August minimag available at www.beyondbluemag.com. Our expose feature from Andy Bystrom investigates the issues of the Tuna Farm proposal in Costa Rica. If you would like to get involved with the campaign to stop tuna farming in Costa Rica please visit www.pretoma.org or email andy@pretoma.org for more information.

For further reading please see Andy's artcile: www.beyondbluemag.com

or visit:

http://venussurfadventures.com/savegolfodulce.htm

Are we killing ourselves?

We are all aware of the mounting evidence that our activities are changing the planet on a global scale and at a possibly irreversible rate. We are affecting everything from a small scale on the level of the gene to a large scale on the level of ecosystems. By doing so we are not only threatening the physical, chemical and biological services of these ecosystems but also our own security in terms of food production and oxygen production.

Some scientists think that we are on the edge of a massive catastrophe. According to an interview on Science Daily with Andrew Brierley, and Michael Kingsford from St Andrews University and James Cook University respectively man-made carbon emissions are now above the ‘worst case’ scenario envisioned by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), are we on the tipping point, or can we yet still save ourselves?

We would really love to hear what your views are on global climate change? Are these changes irreversible? What can we do to reverse or slow down these changes? What are YOUR views?

Join us on our forum to discuss this latest topic and find out more from: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090729092538.htm

http://globalwarmingissues.wordpress.com/

http://www.globalissues.org/issue/178/climate-change-and-global-warming

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Killer squids?

Marine Biology News

Many people have feared the Humboldt squid from times when sailor’s myths describe giant ‘man-eating’ monsters from the deep attacking them at sea. In recent world press there have been reports of SCUBA divers in San Diego being harassed by a large group of these squid – panicked; one diver described her ordeal by stating that she did not think that she would survive as it tried to grab her with its tentacles.

Since this time, squid biologist Brad Seibel from Rhode Island University has commented by saying that such reports serve to do nothing but unnecessarily alarm people, he claims that their man-eating prowess is seriously overblown.

Mexican local tour operators allegedly exaggerate the dangerous nature of these marine animals which adds to this problem. Apparently these operators insist that there customers wear armour and put chum in the water to excite the squid.

We would really love to hear what your views are on these squid? Are they as dangerous as some people claim or are they misunderstood?

Join us on our forum to discuss this latest topic and find out more from: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090723113516.htm and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8155417.stm.

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