Rio Tapajós Damming: Belo Monte’s Sequel?
The next posterchild in Brazil’s damning of the Amazon is the São Luiz do Tapajós Dam
Belo Monte: Protests mount against “Monster Dam” on Brazil’s Rio Xingu
Biologists and human rights observers are calling it an epic disaster in the making, a massive river-damming complex in the heart of the Amazon basin that threatens tens of thousands of native rainforest dwellers and the fish populations that sustain them and enrich the aquarium world.
¡Viva Baja! New Monterey Bay Aquarium Exhibit Looks South
Just when you think the visual delights cannot get any more dazzling, you round the final corner and all the color drops away to reveal a perfectly simple display: a fat, round tank where hundreds of brilliant silver Lookdowns (Selene vomer) swim circles all day, their long flat noses bright against the tank’s calming, blue-lit interior.
Battlelines Drawn as Brazil Pushes for Mega Dam on the Rio Tapajós
After the loss of an epic battle over the Belo Monte project on the Xingu River (the huge dam started operations in early 2016), the Tapajos is expected to become the primary focal point of forces opposed to damming the wild rivers of Amazonia.
XINGU Rising
Río Xingu is ground zero for what has been called the worst environmental disaster in a generation—the highly controversial, widely reviled Belo Monte Dam. This infrastructure project, which has been in development since 1975, has been reported even in mainstream international news outlets, mainly due to the fact that its impacts will include catastrophic environmental and social costs for the entire Xingu River basin.
PlanetXingu FundRazr Campaign To Fund Rio Xingu Scientific Expedition
The Lower Rio Xingu, imminently threatened by the Belo Monte Dam project, is the subject of a grassroots crowd-funding effort to support biodiversity research before it’s too late.
Take the Zebra Pleco Keeper’s Survey
Researchers are interested in the opinions of the worldwide community of keepers and breeders the Zebra Pleco, Hypancistrus zebra (also known as “L 46”), for a scientific study.
AMAZONAS Magazine “CONGO TETRAS!” Inside Look
A preview of highlights in AMAZONAS Magazine’s July/August 2018 Issue. Paid AMAZONAS Subscribers can log in with their email address and read the Digital Edition immediately.
New Tiger Pleco—Panaqolus tankei—Described
The beautiful plecostomus from Brazil’s Rio Xingu known as L398 is formally described.
A Smuggler’s Favorite, the Zebra Pleco “L46” Receives CITES Listing
Will new regulations on international trade stop the smuggling of this stunning black & white Plecostomus?
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Great tank. Wish we had more info on your equipment and the tank setup. I like natural, allowing the corals right up to obstructing the glass to see in the tank.FLUO GAMES: The Night of the Tentacles: Reef Patrol Video says:
[…] years ago, Vanessa Cara-Kerr of ReefPatrol introduced the world to her fluo-diving music video, “WEATHER – a Coral Nightmare.” Now, a second installment has been released, featuring the ThinkFishTank remix of the 2011 Lana Del […]CORAL Magazine New Issue “VERMES" Inside Look says:
[…] of Contents for the November/December 2020 issue of CORAL Magazine. You can view this TOC online.“‘These days, every kid with a marine fishbowl is growing Acropora,’ said an old […]Jason S says:
Hey Tom. Is has been admitted and people (scientists, conservationists, concerned citizens) continue to strongly admit that humans are to blame. The problem is not the admission, it is the listening and the lack of response from elected officials. Some of which impede progress by being champions of misinformation and denial, while they fail to recognize that ecosystem services outperform any country's GDP. Countries are so fixated on their economy at all costs that actions and policies are short term with little reflection of the long term impact of these plans on the planet. The solution is to elect the right individuals (preferably scientists or politicians that respect science, research, and facts) to positions of power and hold them accountable! You have a chance to do that this coming Nov 3, 2020.Austin Bowden-Kerby says:
We have created gene bank nurseries in our Fiji, Kiribati, and Samoa sites, focused on bleaching resistant corals. We collect corals from known stressed hot-pocket reef areas and bring the samples to cooler water nurseries. We aim to collect ten genotypes of each of the Acropora corals as they are the most vulnerable to extinction in the coming decades. Each coral is trimmed annually in the nurseries to prevent spawning and to maximize growth, with the fragments out-planted to create bleaching resistant patches on the reef, where the corals also become effective spawning aggregations and help reefs recover after bleaching. https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/emergency-response-to-massive-coral-bleaching/Tom says:
Everybody keeps saying global warming is killing Coral’s around the world when are they going to really admit that mankind is causing Global warming so mankind is responsible for killing the coral reefs and raping the oceans