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This group discusses the natural history of the British Channel Islands. It provides a forum to pose questions and find answers about the terrestrial and marine environment of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm and the other islands that make up the Channel Islands.
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Fwd: Interesting
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And along the same lines as that posting from France, something incredibly creative and inventive, and also, from the generation who is going to inherit the world from us. ps I also think we should send the people who really run the world a strong message: namely, bancrupt Shell Oil out of business.... more »
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Jersey news.
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Hi there,
Tody Sunday I saw ten or so Bottle-nosed Dolphins feeding close inshore in Grouville Bay
from 1pm onwards just north of the Noire beacon in a tight packed group which were regularly jumping in the air as they fed just behind the mussel beds where there were lots of interesting birds including 26 Common Scoter, 46 Great Crested Grebes, Little Gulls,Slavonian Grebes, Red-necked Grebe, Kittiwakes, Sandwich Tern, Divers and Mergansers. On Monday evening tommorow at the Societe Jersiaise from 8pm is our Marine Biology section meeting. All wellcome! I am hoping a couple of researchers from Angers... more »
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MARINE LIFE NEWS BULLETIN TORPEDO (January 2010)
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Hello, MARINE LIFE NEWS BULLETIN TORPEDO (January 2010) Issue 160 ISSN 1464-8156 The monthly news bulletin has been sent out to subscribers and should arrive in subscriber's mail boxes before you receive this message. If you are a subscriber have not received it, please find a copy of the bulletin at:... more »
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Fishy friendly EU fishing policy!
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Hi there,
This study, that shows Europe will fail to reach their Johannesburg aim for fisheries management until 2015 confirms a trend we see throughout all environmental politics in Europe and that is disastrous for the environment and especially for the oceans” comments Ricardo Aguilar, Scientific Director of Oceana Europe. “Europe is not only failing to reach their Johannesburg aim to manage fisheries sustainable until 2015 but Europe will also fail to stop biodiversity loss until 2010, an aim they committed to in the International Convention on Biodiversity, as de European Commission has recently recognized.”... more »
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Please check out the link below. If you have time and fancy it, you can also read my comments. If you feel as strongly about this issue as I do, please send the link to everyone you can. Maybe if enough people get outraged by it, we can shame my government into finally ending this barbaric slaughter which is conducted for no other reason than petty vanity.... more »
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Puffin posible project for Burhou to sat nav them!
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Hi there, At:- [link] Details of satellite trackers fitted to Puffins which could be fitted to a few local breeders to do a little research perhaps on Burhou.I would also like to do similar work on shearwaters here to promote our local bird movements to the public hoping to encourage widspread interest.Dr Tom Brereton hopes to work on the local Balearic... more »
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Artic Tern - BBC article
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[link] Tracking of Artic terns show they use the wind and take a 1,000 mile detour in the use of to use less energy. I wonder then what part changing weather patterns have on them, such as the NAO.
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Be eely nice
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Eel populations in London's River Thames crash by 98% [link] European eel populations are under threat. These catadromous fishes are vulnerable because of their life cycle - born at the depths of the Sargasso Sea - and then a long migration to European shores as leptocephalus larvae where they undergo metamorphosis to enter freshwater. They then migrate inland having to negotiate physical and chemical barriers to reach their freshwater home. Years later they get the urge to return to sea and swim back to the Sargasso Sea where they reproduce and die.... more »
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It's time to protect Europe's seabirds
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Admittedly cut and paste from BirdLife International. It's time to protect Europe's seabirds [link] Glyn Dr. H. Glyn Young Conservation Biologist Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust Direct: +44 (0)1534 860032 Tel: +44 (0)1534 860000 Fax: +44 (0)1534 860001... more »
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Lundy today hopefully the north coast of Jersey tommorow!
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Hi there,
Lundy has just become a great marine reserve!
Tomorrow I hope we can consider Jersey's coastline!
England’s first Marine Conservation Zone announced
Lundy Island, one of England’s most spectacular marine habitats, has today become England’s first Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ).... more »
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