The Banggai Rescue Project was founded in 2012 as an international, multidisciplinary effort to work toward a healthy future for the Banggai Cardinalfish, Pterapogon kauderni. Endemic to the Banggai Islands of Indonesia, this unique species has an Endangered designation on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List.
Official Publication of the Banggai Rescue Project, available first at MACNA 2013. Click for a larger image.
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Lead organizers include CORAL Magazine and Reef to Rainforest Media, LLC, with scientific leadership from the University of Florida’s Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory and partnership with the Indonesian Nature Foundation, Yayasan LINI.
Goals of the project are to protect the species in its natural habitat, to encourage the implementation of sustainable fishery management, and to take pressure off wild stocks by fostering the development of captive breeding programs.
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This is a terrifically well-written and informative article.VIDEO: Cephalopod Aquaculture at the Marine Biological Labor says:
[…] To see an example of research driven with the help of the MBL Cephalopod Program, read this new story, Octopus females mate and die in self-cannibalistic death spiral. Science may now know why. […]Octopus females mate and die in self-cannibalistic death spi says:
[…] as part of the Grass Fellowship, before she joins the faculty at the University of Washington. [learn more about cephalopod aquaculture at the MBL in a video with program manager Bret Grasse.] A major draw of MBL is their extensive cephalopod research program, in particular a new model […]Steven says:
Fuck him He wasted 10 years of my life. I can’t forgive him.Manezes says:
Hi, This reading is very interesting and to know about how butterfly fishes life in Ocean. Is it possible to breed those fishes at home accuriam?.John Perez says:
Beautiful fish just too much money they will be breed by the hundreds in Asia soon then I will be able to get some. It's the truth .