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Save Our Seas
The Save our Seas Foundation is a non profit organization Headquartered in Geneva Switzerland. Its purpose is to implement and support diverse programmes of research and education to encourage awar...
Posted by RoopalP Added: 14 Sep 2007, 3:26 pm GMT No comments yet
Release of Red List Underscores Urgency for Conservation Action
The Shark Alliance and coalition member organization Project AWARE, a nonprofit environmental organisation working with divers to conserve underwater environments, are highlighting with concern the...
Posted by Joanne Marston Added: 14 Sep 2007, 2:19 am GMT No comments yet
Queensland fishing culture is 'old school'
It's a subject of minor interest to Queensland's well-heeled city-set. But even politicians were startled and inspired by the small, nuggetty man in joggers and t-shirt who spoke at the State Libra...
Posted by Loretta Ranieri Added: 27 Aug 2007, 4:42 am GMT 2 comments Last reply added: 22 Dec 2007, 5:04 am
Coral Reef Photography Competition: What do Australia’s coral reefs mean to you?
In celebration of Australian Biodiversity Month in September, Reef Check Australia and Project AWARE Asia Pacific are pleased to announce the inaugural “What do Australia’s coral reefs mean to ...
Posted by Joanne Marston Added: 21 Aug 2007, 3:48 am GMT No comments yet
CITES decides on the fate of three vulnerable shark species
Trade in sawfish has been banned but two endangered species of sharks failed to win protection at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting in The Hague. The prop...
Posted by Joanne Marston Added: 01 Aug 2007, 3:44 am GMT No comments yet
DIVE FOR CLEAN WATERS: International Cleanup Day
Dive for International Cleanup Day on 15 September 2007 and help protect underwater environments and wildlife from a growing tide of marine litter. Project AWARE, the dive community’s leading no...
Posted by Joanne Marston Added: 29 Jun 2007, 1:00 am GMT No comments yet
Dredging
Does anyone have any informaton on the dredging of Port Phillip Bay Victoria or any dates that it will begin thanks concerned local ...
Posted by dylanS Added: 31 May 2007, 6:51 am GMT No comments yet
Project AWARE’s Dive for Earth Day Draws Volunteers from 60 Countries
Thousands of Project AWARE divers and community volunteers joined in the action during April’s Dive for Earth Day festivities. More than 235 Dive for Earth Day events took place in nearly 60 coun...
Posted by Joanne Marston Added: 23 May 2007, 7:00 am GMT No comments yet
Reef Check Declaration of Reef Rights
Media Release: March 2007 Reef Check Declaration of Reef Rights One million needed to pledge action to save reefs The International Declaration of Reef Rights has just been announc...
Posted by Roger Beeden Added: 11 Apr 2007, 5:35 am GMT No comments yet
Make Your Dives Count. Monitor Coral Reefs.
New research indicates that more than half of the world’s coral reefs could die in less than 25 years. Human activities and climate change have contributed to the loss of 30 percent of the worlds...
Posted by Joanne Marston Added: 05 Feb 2007, 3:11 am GMT No comments yet
Halt the Salt
http://www.haltthesalt.org.au/ is the website of an alliance of rec fishers, commercial fishers and conservationists who oppose the prop...
Posted by DaveGamcs Added: 20 Jan 2007, 5:11 am GMT No comments yet
One million needed to Clean Up Australia and tackle climate change!
On Sunday 4th March 2007, hundreds of thousands of people across Australia will take part in Clean Up Australia Day, the country’s largest environmental community event. Around 700,000 people cl...
Posted by Joanne Marston Added: 18 Jan 2007, 5:36 am GMT No comments yet
Shark Trade Limits Endorsed by European Union
Germany wins EU blessing to propose spiny dogfish and porbeagle sharks for listing under CITES As a member of the Shark Alliance, Project AWARE Foundation applauses a recent decision by European ...
Posted by Joanne Marston Added: 15 Jan 2007, 11:50 pm GMT No comments yet
OW-USS Rolex Diving Scholarship, a chance of a life time!
The Our World Underwater Schlarship Society (OWUSS) along with sponsorship from Rolex, has awarded promising young divers the opportunity of a lifetime for the past 30 years in North America and Eu...
Posted by DeliaN Added: 10 Jan 2007, 4:34 pm GMT No comments yet
Volunteer Divers Required for 2006 Great Victorian Fish Count
The Great Victorian Fish Count is on again. This is an annual survey of Victoria's unique and colourful marine reef fish populations. Volunteer scuba divers and snorkellers get together in groups ...
Posted by ReefW Added: 13 Nov 2006, 5:19 am GMT No comments yet

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