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Biotopes by Country
Africa Biotopes Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Cameroon Central African Republic Chad CongoDR Congo Rep Cote d Ivoire Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea-Bissau Guinea Kenya Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia Sudan Tanzania Togo Zambia Zimbabwe Asia Biotopes Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia East Timor Hong Kong India Indonesia Japan Laos Malaysia Myanmar Nepal Pakistan Philippines Singapore Thailand VietNam Caribbean Biotopes Cuba Dominican Republic Haiti Jamaica Puerto Rico Trinidad and Tobago US Virgin Islands Central America Biotopes Belize Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama North America Biotopes USA Australia & Oceania & Misc Islands Biotopes Australia French Polynesia Guam Hawaii Maldives Marshall Islands Mauritius Micronesia New Caledonia Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Seychelles Solomon Islands Sri Lanka Tahiti Taiwan Vanuatu South America Biotopes Bolivia Brazil Colombia Ecuador French Guiana Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uganda Uruguay Venezuela Ecosystems Africa - Central Africa : Congo_Zaire Lake Kivu Africa - East Africa : Sabaki River Tana River Africa - North Africa : Nile Africa - Rift Lakes : Lake Chad Lake Liambezi Lake Malawi Lake Rukwa Lake Tanganyika Lake Turkana Lake Victoria Africa - Southern Africa : Chobe Okavango River Orange Shire Zambezi Kwando River Linyanti Africa - West Africa : Agnebi Bandama River Benue River Bia River Buba River Casamance River Cross River Gambia River Kariba Little Scarcies Niger River Ogun River Rokel Saint John Saint Paul Saloum Senegal River Volta Weme Comoé River Corubal River Ebrie Fatala Geba Kainji Lake Kogon Kolente Konkoure Loffa Mano Mao Mono River Nipoue Pra Sassandra Sewa Tano Asia - India : Brahmaputra River Cavally River Ganges Indus Krishna River Chilka Lake Chittar River Godavari Asia - Japan : Lake Biwa Asia - Philippines : Lake Buluan Lake Lanao Taal Asia - Southeast Asia : Amudar'ya Chao Praya River Irrawaddy Mekong River Salween Eurasia : Danube Lake Baikal Seine Loire Rhine Middle East : Euphrates Tigris North America - USA : Great Lakes Lake Waccamaw Mississippi South America : Amazon River Araguaia River Madeira Magdalena Maranon Orinoco Para-Tocantins Paraguay River Parana Rio Negro Sao Francisco Uruguay River Purus Saltwater / Marine / Reef Saltwater Great Barrier Reef Saltwater_Hawaiian_Insular Saltwater_Persian_Gulf Saltwater_Peru-Galapagos Saltwater_Polynesia Saltwater_Red_Sea |
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Recent news
Argentina bans fishing, trawling in eco-rich area (10/9/2008) The government of Argentina has banned commercial fishing along Burdwood Bank, an 1,800 square kilometer (694 square mile) submerged island off its southern coast, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Mediterranean bluefin tuna originate in the Gulf of Mexico (10/2/2008) Researchers have discovered a previously unknown migratory route for the northern bluefin tuna, proving for the first time that the species' Mediterranean and North American subpopulations interact. According to the paper published in Science the two groups meet as juveniles then return to their birthplace to spawn. For a critically-endangered species that is still heavily fished, the new finding has large conservation and management implications. 12 fish species go extinct in lake near Istanbul (9/24/2008) Turkey has lost twelve species of fish to pollution in Lake Sapanca. Lake Sapanca used to be one of Turkey's most bio-diverse lakes. A decade ago the lake's water was pristine enough to be pumped directly to Istanbul for citizen use, but due to rising pollution it no longer serves as a source for the city water. 100 new species of sharks and rays discovered in Australia (9/19/2008) Scientists have described 100 new species of sharks and rays in the seas around Australia. A solution to worldwide fishery collapse? (9/18/2008) In November 2006 a study on global fisheries received a lot of attention: employing 53 years worth of fishery data, Boris Worm predicted that by 2048 the ocean would be empty of fish. Essentially there would be nothing left to catch. Already, Worm reported, fishing stocks had collapsed in 29 percent of the world's fisheries. Although scientists called for rapid and overhauling changes to fisheries, the fishing industry carried on business-as-usual. Now, two years later, a study in Science proposes to have found the solution to the global fishery-collapse. |
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