How the oceans are going?

Recently in 2016 the retrospective of developments for oceans brought us how is it going and the main concerns about the positive and negative human actions to preserve and keep our patrimony of humanity.

Click on the image bellow and get the top 10 developments for the world's oceans from 2016

Global Fishing Watch

Hundreds of millions of people depend on the ocean for their livelihoods and many more rely on the ocean for food. However, the world’s oceans are threatened by global overfishing, illegal fishing and habitat destruction. Their sustainability depends on action by governments, fishery management organizations, citizens and the fishing industry itself.
The Global Fishing Watch is available to anyone with an internet connection and allows users to monitor when and where commercial fishing is occurring around the world.

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Second Largest Shark Sanctuary

Kiribati is the eighth island nation to establish a shark sanctuary in the Pacific, acknowledging the economic and ecosystem value that healthy shark populations provide.

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Trends of oceanic oxygen and Climate Change

We need to know more about our oceans and what's happening with the main gas that's vital to our live and planet life = the oxygen! Click on the image bellow and enjoy a good paper telling us about the trends in oceanic oxygen.

These informations could be useful to us to understand the possibilities with the climate change in the ocean. However there are a lot of concern about the true actions between countries in international agreements (eg. Convention on Climate Change) to understand and use this information preventing and taking care of the future of Life Planet. To know more about these huge challenges enjoy the links bellow.

http://gizmodo.uol.com.br/niveis-oxigenio-oceanos/

http://gizmodo.uol.com.br/mudanca-climatica-e-mtpe/

http://gizmodo.uol.com.br/paris-propanda-falsa-conferencia-clima/

http://unfccc.int/2860.php

http://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/international/negotiations/paris/index_en.htm

http://www.un.org/climatechange/towards-a-climate-agreement/

Coral Bleaching View from the Top

The most severe coral bleaching viewed from the top is a great concern in this year marked by the worst El Niño Year! Reduction of pollution and marine debris mainly from the land crops could minimize this event over the coral reefs.
Click on the image bellow to more informations about this rough event and share with your friends!

Marine Protected Area: an urgent action to protect at least 30% of the Ocean

The Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) purpose to achieve 10% of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the Oceans until 2020... But new studies and reviews complies that is necessary at least 30% of MPAs to save the marine biodiversity and restore several of fish stocks collapsed! Click on the image bellow .. read, think about it and share with your friends this action! Enjoy!!

Great initiatives of Coral Recovering

Coral cover could be saved in tropical regions and great initiatives of coral farm could help to improve the ground coral cover around the world and get back the reef fishes to their natural habitat!
Click on the image bellow and enjoy an amazing project with fishermen to restore the coral cover in Pacific ocean!