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Lack of data a threat to sharks says Government report
WWF-Australia and the Australian Marine Conservation Society today called on Queensland Premier Anna Bligh to halt shark fishing in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.
Progress in Poznan vital for world's climate
WWF today warned the Australian government that humanity is approaching the last chance to keep global warming below the danger-threshold of 2°C.
WWF calls on governments to crack the climate nut
Poznan, Poland: As UN climate talks enter their next round in Poznan, WWF calls on governments to ensure that the conference shifts the climate negotiations into a much faster gear by producing first real negotiation texts. A final version of the treaty is due end of 2009.
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Marine protected areas for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean
The water of Antarctica are possibly the world's most harsh yet beautiful environment. In the summer months as light reaches deeper into the icy waters of the Southern Ocean, phytoplankton and shrimp-like krill become phenomenally abundant, forming dense clouds. The foundation of the Antarctic food chain, these tiny crustaceans are feasted upon by squids, penguins, crabeater seals and baleen whales. In turn, the prey of many larger predators such as Antarctic toothfishes, leopard seals, sperm whales and killer whales depend on these small animals. Few places in the world, if any, support greater numbers of large animals.
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Continuing CCAMLR's fight against IUU fishing for Toothfish
Patagonian Toothfish Dissostichus eleginoides and Antarctic Toothfish Dissostichus mawsoni1 are found in sub-Antarctic and cool temperate waters of southern South America and the islands and submarine plateaus of the southern Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) has responsibility for the conservation and rational use of fisheries resources in the Southern Ocean and, together with coastal States in whose waters these species occur, manages the catch of these species.
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