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Featured video: saving sea turtles in Mexico’s Magdalena Bay

Featured video: saving sea turtles in Mexico’s Magdalena Bay

May 21, 2013December 25, 2019 Supertrooper 2 Comments

A new short film, Viva la tortuga documents the struggle to save loggerhead and green sea turtles in Magdalena Bay, Mexico. Once a region for a massive sea turtle meat market, the turtles now face a new threat: bycatch. Loggerhead sea turtles are drowning in bottom-set gillnets, unable to escape from the nets once entangled. […]

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Frankenfish or scientific marvel?: giant GM salmon await U.S. approval

Frankenfish or scientific marvel?: giant GM salmon await U.S. approval

May 19, 2013December 22, 2019 Supertrooper 1 Comment

It is hard to think of a more unlikely setting for genetic experimentation or for raising salmon: a rundown shed at a secretive location in the Panamanian rainforest miles inland and 1,500m above sea level. But the facility, which is owned by an American company AquaBounty Technologies, stands on the verge of delivering the first […]

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Photo: Stunning new pit-viper discovered in Honduras

Photo: Stunning new pit-viper discovered in Honduras

May 16, 2013December 22, 2019 Supertrooper 2 Comments

A stunning new species of pit-viper has been discovered in the cloud forest of Honduras. The venomous snake is described in the journal ZooKeys. The species is named Bothriechis guifarroi in honor of Mario Guifarro of Olancho, a conservationist who was gunned down in 2007 as he was working to set up a reserve for […]

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