Tag Archives: oceans
Protecting 4% of oceans would help 84% of marine mammals
Posted by Kevin Heath on August 31st, 2011 at 3: 01 pm
New research has shown that if we protected just 4% of the worlds oceans and seas we could protect as much as 84% of the marine mammals that grace our oceans. Just 9 locations have an essential role in the lives of 108 different marine mammals. With a quarter of the worlds 129 species of marine mammals endangered this [...]
TV Review: Ocean Giants BBC1
Posted by Kevin Heath on August 15th, 2011 at 12: 28 pm
There’s little doubt that the new BBC1 mini-series Ocean Giants will win awards. The first programme in the series of tree looked at the big whales and what a spectacle it was. The programme took a look at a range of whales species culminating the the ocean giant the blue whale. There was a time a [...]