News & Notes

India's Underground Fish Trade

While roughly 90 percent of the marine aquarium trade’s animals originate on reefs, only about 10 percent of freshwater aquarium fishes have ever seen a natural ecosystem. Is the freshwater trade therefore above reproach when it comes to sustainability? Perhaps not….

28 Jun 9:34 AM 4 Read More...

CORAL and AMAZONAS - Table of Contents Mission Complete!

The best news of all: The majority of these articles can be accessed through the Reef to Rainforest Back Issue Archives, in both print and digital formats.

27 Jun 11:13 AM 0 Read More...

New Killifish Species from Cameroon

A strikingly handsome new species of killifish the Pama River, a small tributary of the Nyong River flowing into the Gulf of Guinea in Central Africa’s Republic of Cameroon.

21 Jun 12:51 PM 4 Read More...

The First Lightning Maroon Captive-Breds: What Am I Bid?

Three years after a strikingly pigmented aberrant morph of Premnas biculeatus was collected off Fisherman’s Island in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and quickly made headlines throughout the aquarium world, the first captive-bred Lightning-type offspring are about to reach the open market via an online auction.

21 Jun 10:09 AM 1 Read More...

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.

13 Jun 2:41 PM 0 Read More...