Feature Destination: Your Maine Experience
Wow, a year has passed since we first launched Experience Maine. As I celebrate this milestone, I reflect on all the support and encouragement I’ve received from the industry and my peers. As well as all the love we’ve received from our clients. It’s been a roller coaster of a year, zooming by at first and then slowing to a crawl after Covid reared its ugly head. Read more…
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Ocean Soul Films Ltd. & Wildlife Media in association with The Claude & Sofia Marion Foundation present THE BLUE FOREST
Ocean Souls Films is a UK production company, dedicated to ocean conservation. Their inspiring films and documentaries raise awareness about marine species and ecosystems. Their latest release, THE BLUE FOREST, focuses on the importance of kelp forests and seaweed ecosystems and the current threats these productive and rich ecosystems face. Read more…
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Still Seeking Moby Dick: Spotting Whales from space
Modern space technology and artificial intelligence have combined to enhance the conservation of marine animals: the new service, “SPACEWHALE”, developed by a team of creative scientists in Germany and the UK, detects whales from space. Read more…
DroneSeed Acquires Largest Private Forestry Seed Supplier in the Western U.S.
DroneSeed announced today it has acquired Silvaseed Company, a 130-year-old titan in the forestry seed collection and seedling supply business. The move expands DroneSeed’s reforestation services beyond aerial drone-based seeding to span seed collection, seedling cultivation in nurseries, and on-the-ground tree planting services. Read more…
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SAWFISH NEWS by Tonya Wiley: Havenworth Coastal Conservation
The sawfishes are some of the most imperilled elasmobranchs (sharks, rays, and skates), with all five species assessed as Critically Endangered or Endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. Read more…
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Still Contaminated After Years of Government Inaction. Who Should Pay for DDT Clean-up off Our Coast?
The Montrose Chemical Corporation of California was a chemical corporation that was the largest producer of the insecticide DDT in the world from 1947 until 1982. Its former plant in Harbor Gateway South area of Los Angeles near Torrance, California was designated as a Superfund site by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Read more…
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Package Delivery Robots’ Environmental Impacts: Automation Matters Less Than Vehicle Type
Whether a robot or a person delivers your package, the carbon footprint would essentially be the same, according to a University of Michigan study that could help inform the future of automated delivery as the pandemic fuels a dramatic rise in online shopping. Read more…
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The Camden International Film Festival: Surveying the Maine Coast, Tracking Down Berlin Wall Segments, and Targeting Suspects Overseas
This is the time of the year when film festivals proliferate and now they are more accessible than ever because the pandemic has forced them to go virtual. Great documentary films can be seen in the comfort and safety of your home courtesy of the Boston Latino International Film Festival (Sept. 23-27; www.bliff.org), Read more…
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Under the Waves with Karim Iliya, October 2021
A surprise encounter from a pacific white-sided dolphin while I was freediving off the coast of Mexico. See the photo…
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Banggai Cardinalfish – Jack’s October 2021 Underwater Photograph
Banggai Cardinalfish (Pterapogon kauderni) in the wild are found living in shallow habitats ranging from coral reefs & lagoons to seagrass beds and reef margins. They prefer more protected calmer waters and are generally found in small groups of individuals ranging from 9 to 12 individual fish. Read more…
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Collisions with Vessels, the Deadliest Threat for Whales
Whaleship strikes have now become a significant threat to big cetaceans. Collision skills are 20 times more whales than the controversial practice of whale hunting or whaling. It’s a silent massacre most people are unaware of. Every year, up to 20,000 whales die because of lethal collisions with vessels. Read more…
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Mainers Guarding Right Whales launches campaign to inform lobster consumers, protect North Atlantic right whales from extinction.
Currently, there is no certification program that ensures Maine lobster is whale-safe. A new organization is working to change that. Mainers Guarding Right Whales, a nonprofit organization working to save North Atlantic right whales from extinction, has launched a new campaign to inform travellers heading to Maine “Vacationland” that lobster dinners at seaside harbours come at a steep price to North Atlantic right whales, the fifth largest mammal on earth. Read more…
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The FREE Weekly Conservation Post and Jobs List
For 15 years the Global Marine Community Weekly Conservation Post has been emailing round-up of events, jobs, and announcements in ocean conservation. Learn more and subscribe for free!
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Backpacking Responsibly: Helpful Tips on How to Leave No Trace
Taking a backpacking trip through the woods either as an avid hiker or leisurely camper is a great way to unplug, connect with your surroundings, and enjoy the peacefulness of the outdoors. By being a responsible backpacker, you can help make a difference in preserving the natural landscapes that wildlife call home. Read more…
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Indie Film: ‘The Long Coast’ Lets the Stories of Maine Fishermen Convey the Challenges Facing the Ocean
Only living here since 1987 makes me “from away,” and I’ve come to accept that. But the Perkinses come from here, and Maine was the place where we escaped every summer through my childhood. My parents have retired to the (now winterized) ancient house on a cliff overlooking the waters off of Phippsburg, where, as a child, I goggled at the date inscribed on the side of the house. Read more…
Unprecedented Deep-Sea Shark Discovery in Israel Sheds Light on World’s Understanding of Climate Change
A research initiative led by the University of Haifa and partners in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea recently revealed deep-sea brine pools and related habitat hotspots, including hundreds of deep-water sharks and the largest concentration of deep-sea shark eggs ever found. Read more…
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Scientists Explore Mineral-Rice Seafloor & DDT Dump Sites; Discovery New Methane Seep, Whale Fall
Marine scientists aboard Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor have completed a 12-day expedition off the coast of Southern California to survey the biodiversity of deep-sea areas rich in minerals that are of interest to deep-sea mining developers around the world. Read more…
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OceanGate Expeditions Completes Groundbreaking 2021 Titanic Survey Expedition
ST. JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLAND – OceanGate Expeditions has completed six historic weeks of dives aboard Titan, the world’s only 5-person, 4,000-meter (13,123 feet) submersible. A team of renowned experts, researchers, and citizen scientists returned today to St. Read more…
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Hawai‘i Pacific University Uses Lasers to Investigate Corals and Marine Debris
Hawai‘i Pacific University (HPU) received a nearly $320,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for the acquisition of an ultramodern Raman spectrometer that uses complex lasers to analyze coral reefs and marine debris found off Hawai‘i’s waters and beaches. Read more…
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Book Suggestion: The Secret Life of Fish by Doug Mackay-Hope
THE SECRET LIFE OF FISH is an exploration into the untold lives of 50 of the most compelling fish living in our oceans and waterways with a foreword by Jeremy Wade, presenter of River Monsters and Mighty Rivers, and official fish aficionado. Read more…
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This piece was prepared online by Panuruji Kenta, Publisher, SEVENSEAS Media