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Now This is Pro Lacrosse Cheerleading at Its Finest: New York Titans Girls
You know how when you're watching a cheerleading squad perform and you kind of wish they were just as wild off the field as they appear to look on the field? I mean you kind of know that perhaps the girls aren't doing splits all the time and looking all seductive like they do. Afterall it's real life when they're not performing.
One would think that perhaps a bit of class should be displayed when not performing. Well, for those of you who wish to see the same dirty exploits as the splits and near lap dance type performances on the field in an off field setting, you are in luck.
The ladies of the New York Titans lacrosse team do just that. Thanks to their star (or at least my star) Doris (also member of the Jets cheerleaders), this team loves to show the goods
Don't you just love when cheerleading teams decide to all gather in a hotel room, wear daisy dukes, and show their asses to the world?
Don't you just love when cheerleaders line up like that and look like they're gonna you know..do it?
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Unfortunately I think it's true. Right now we think we are way smarter than we actually are. The conservatives we have today are liberal compared to many of the democrats when I was growing up. We have very little leadership and are grabbing for anything to believe in. If Sarah Palin is on the ballot in 2012 I will vote for her, but I don't think it is likely and I feel like we should be scouring the countryside looking for good people!
Unfortunately, I agree. The GOP party bosses always 'hand pick' these liberal Republicans to run in statewide races, and then tell conservatives that we must vote for the RINOs because we have "nowhere else to go." That's why today's Republican Party has no priniples. That's also why Republicans lost big in both 2006 and 2008.
Now,seeing as this little factoid took me all of ten seconds to find, will you kindly explain to me why it is that you didn't look this up?
Repubs got complacent the last 4 years of Bush's term. They became big spenders and the economy went into a funk. Anytime unemployment and the economy is suffering, the party in power is going to lose seats in Congress. That is what is going to happen in 010. Obama was hired to fix it. It is only gotten worse so Democrats do not stand a chance in the coming election.
Repubs need to run conservative candidates; RINO's like McCain need to go. Otherwise, the Repub party will slip back into their spending frenzy and the cycle of big swings in elections will take place. Repubs would be wise to run on job creation, spending cuts, lower taxes and strong defense. That is the winning ticket cause lower taxes, spending cuts and smaller government is repulsive to liberals.
Sure, maybe on the Star Trek episode where they encounter a planet ruled by people of below average intelligence and all the intellectuals are jailed for saying smart stuff.
But back on planet earth the vindictive climber is just a vapid talking point machine who writes notes on her hand like a 10th grader cheating on a Spanish quiz.
Why don't your boy show us his grades. Answer, he has something to hide or he skimmed thru on his blackness. The stupid SOB does not know how many states in the Union (it's not 57) and can not remember his daughter's age without a teleprompter. Obummer uses a teleprompter when meeting school kids.
Palin is going to bust his balls come election time in 012.
Now I'm not in any need to defend or promote Palin's intelligence or lack thereof, but I think you may want to hold off on extolling the smarts of your hero there, hazelnut. I think everyone here should read George Will's column today.
I agree with what George has to say about Palin, but Obama isn't exactly showing he's on a par with Jefferson. Sure, you lefties got your Ivy League academic elitist, and as a result, anything he babbles on about surely has to have some deep and gospel like meaning that us mere mortals can't fully comprehend.
But I'd wait and see how the rest of his term goes, because so far he's not exactly dazzling, or effective and time has a way of moderating and focusing how history is recorded.
Please, be nice to Logan's Papa...he took a long time to get the guts to show his cowardly face here...and it seems more of his brain cells died along the way.But back on planet earth the vindictive climber is just a vapid talking point machine who writes notes on her hand like a 10th grader cheating on a Spanish quiz.
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- Parents' attitudes about helping their grown children affect their mental health
- Older parents frequently give help to their middle-aged offspring, and their perceptions about giving this help may affect their mental health, according to a team of researchers. "We usually view the elderly as needy, but our research shows that parents ages 60 and over are giving help to their children, and this support is often associated with lower rates of depression among the older adults," said Lauren Bangerter, Ph.D. student in human development and family studies, Penn State. The team -- which included researchers at Penn State, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Michigan -- examined the association between the support that aging parents give to their middle-aged offspring, the parents' perception of this support as rewarding or stressful and the parents' levels of depressive symptoms.
- Child care task force makes recommendations and outlines needs
- A new report on the state and well-being of the University's child care services includes five major findings and numerous recommendations, including the need for a director of child care to oversee programs across the University, and an exemption of Penn State child care centers from the University's AD-39, a policy that requires higher ratios of adults to children than what is required by existing child care regulations. The 93-page report, created by a Presidential Task Force on Child Care at Penn State, can be found online. Penn State President Rodney Erickson, who commissioned the 14-member task force in October 2013, said the report was "comprehensive, thoughtful and included considerable benchmarking of data with peer institutions. The report reflects the needs and perspectives of parents, employees, and child care researchers who are looking for the best care and education of our children."
- Gordon Jensen recognized as a top nutrition support therapy researcher
- Gordon Jensen, professor and head of the Department of Nutritional Sciences and professor of medicine at Penn State, has been named the 2014 Jonathan E. Rhoads Lecturer by the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.). The Jonathan E. Rhoads Lecture is A.S.P.E.N.s most prestigious award. It recognizes scholars for their major contributions to the field of nutrition support therapy and their career-long commitments to improving the nutritional statuses of patients. The lecturer is recommended by the A.S.P.E.N.'s board of directors and is invited by the society's president to deliver a lecture at the society's Clinical Nutrition Week conference. This year's conference will be held in Savannah, Ga., on Jan. 18 to 21.
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- In recent years, call centers staffed by non-native English speakers have been the butt of jokes about outsourcing. But do these jibes reflect a real problem, especially when it comes to health care services? According to Jonathan Clark, assistant professor of health policy and administration at Penn State, it depends. Clark notes that outsourcing in the health care industry is becoming increasingly common. "If you've had an X-ray taken at a hospital in the past decade, the chance that it was read by a radiologist elsewhere in the world is pretty high," he says. "That's because around 90 percent of hospitals in the United States now outsource some portion of their radiology services."
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- Nancy Gonzales, Arizona State University Foundation Professor and director of the Prevention Research Center at Arizona State University, will give the 2013 Bennett Lecture in Prevention Science. The lecture, titled "The Role of Culture in Prevention Science: Past Progress and Future Challenges," will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 12, in the Bennett Pierce Living Center, 110 Henderson Building. The lecture is sponsored by the Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development, through the Bennett Endowment to the center.
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- Within the hospitality industry, manager support for fun is instrumental in reducing employee turnover, particularly for younger employees, according to a team of researchers. However, manager support for fun also reduces employee productivity, which can negatively impact sales performance. "In the hospitality industry, employee turnover is notoriously high because restaurant jobs are highly substitutable -- if you don't like your job at Chili's you can go to TGI Friday's down the street," said Michael J. Tews, assistant professor of hospitality management, Penn State. "High employee turnover is consistently quoted as being one of the problems that keeps managers up at night because if you're involved with recruiting and training constantly, then you can't focus on effectively managing your existing staff and providing a high-quality service experience."
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- The Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME) announced on Nov. 12 the seven-year accreditation of the Penn State Master of Health Administration program in the Department of Health Policy and Administration. CAHME reviewers performed their site visit of the program during the past spring semester. MHA Executive Director Jonathan Clark explains that the successes of the program and its graduates are possible because of a strong foundation on which the program has grown. This accreditation is a great achievement for our program. Under Karen Volmar's leadership, and Michael Meacham's before that, the program has flourished and gained national prominence, and this recognition only serves to underscore that, Clark says, adding that the CAHME decision to accredit the program for a full seven years is another testament to the programs success.
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Katia Ricciarelli (born 16 January, 1946) is an Italian soprano. Born at Rovigo, Veneto to a very poor family, she struggled during her younger years when she studied music. She studied at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice, won several vocal competitions in 1968, and made her professional debut as Mimì in La bohème in Mantua in 1969, followed by a 1970 appearance in Il trovatore in Parma. In the following year, she won RAI's "Voci Verdiane" award. Between 1972 and 1975, engagements followed in the major European and American opera houses, including Lyric Opera of Chicago (1972); La Scala (1973); Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (1974); and the Metropolitan Opera in 1975. In 1981, she began a decade-long association with the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, thus broadening her repertoire of Rossini's operas. Beside her many opera performances, she also appeared as Desdemona in Franco Zeffirelli's film version of Verdi's Otello in 1986, alongside Plácido Domingo. In 2005 she won the best actress prize Nastro d'Argento, awarded by the Italian film journalists, for her role in Pupi Avati's La seconda notte di nozze. In 1991 she founded Accademia Lirica di Katia
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- Otello (1986) 1986
- Second Wedding Night (La Seconda notte di nozze)
- Black and White (Bianco e nero) (2008)
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Lindsay Lohan cheered for hometown New York Knicks last night, alongside her sister Ali and two brothers, Cody and Michael.
After the game, Lindsay was a lot less animated as she and her siblings made their way to their ride home.
No doubt, Lou.
Sitting on the back of the chair = failed attempt at drawing attention to all things Lindsay.
::still losing::
She hopes we all think now what a nice girl next door she is.
But can any forget her being first a lying thief, batterer, lesbo junkie skanky alcoholic??
Did I forget any other of her well known attributes?
Please feel free to include your thoughts too about her real character...
definitely a performance and a bad one at that. Notice how she's the only one standing too! Too bad the person behind her didn't give her a little push so she would fall over. Then again, take notice to the painted on pants, she probably couldn't bend at the waist. The price for being skanky!!!
Nothing fake about her enthusiasm and no hangover because no drinking. Anyone who seriously thinks otherwise is a creepy stalking fool. Lindsay looks great!!!!!
No way she's actually a fan. She just wants attention; that's all she ever wants. You'd would think Lindsay might finally have realized that just being seen and photographed isn't going to get her work. Staying home once in a while could do more for the new "I'm a serious actress" image she's trying to sell.
Just the type of dork you don't want to be sitting behind. While everyone else finds it adequate enough to 'sit and cheer' here's the only person in the picture who has to 'stand and cheer'. Almost looks like she's sitting on the seatback. What an inconsiderate douche.....
This is the Lohan career now. Pimping out stories to ROL and TMZ. No other celebrity site cares about Lindsay anymore.
wow, has she got BETTY ROUNDMOUTH going on in those pictures? Those pictures are so freaky looking! What a tard!
Getting out amongst the people is further proof that Lindsays recovery is taking this time. She seems happy to be with family. With the scripts for movie projects flooding her agents desk, it seems obvious that Producers seem more than satisfied that Lindsay, is taking her recovery seriously.
Lindsay is absolutely beeming. You see the joy in her face that she is happy to be with family back home. Yes...Lindsay is in a good place now. Lindsays future is looking brighter everyday.
As her recovery progresses she will once again be the most in demand actress in Hollywood. Such status befits an actress of her caliber and beauty.
Yeah, get set for a serious of idiotic "I'm in a good place" performances like this.
Totally unconvincing. It doesn't prove she's happy and well. It proves she's a showboating narcissist with no conscience. Just what every serious film project is looking for.
BTW, any woman over the age of 12 knows not to wear a black bra under a light colored shirt. Desperate.


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The Cuvier's beaked whale, Ziphius cavirostris, is a cetacean particularly vulnerable to the loud noise propagated underwater across the oceans, e.g., by military sonar and by seismic surveys to prospect for oil and . . . → Read More: Mediterranean Governments miss opportunity to protect threatened beaked whales]]>
The Cuvier's beaked whale, Ziphius cavirostris, is a cetacean particularly vulnerable to the loud noise propagated underwater across the oceans, e.g., by military sonar and by seismic surveys to prospect for oil and gas at sea. When hit by these sounds, for reasons still poorly understood these whales are often lethally hurt; and even when they are too far from the sound source to be injured, the whales are impacted because they may leave an area which contains optimal habitat for them. Cuvier's beaked whales in the Mediterranean, a threatened population which is separate from the rest of the world's oceans, have been heavily affected by human-induced underwater noise, due to the frequent naval manoeuvres in a region of high strategic importance, and to the current widespread craze of finding oil or gas in the sea bottom.
To address beaked whale conservation problems caused by these circumstances, the Scientific Committee of the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS) – which I chaired from 2002 to 2010 and which I have been a member of until last week – was requested by the Agreement's parties to provide indications about the whereabouts of critical habitats of Cuvier's beaked whales in the Mediterranean in order to support appropriate mitigation measures.
To make a very long story short, in a process which lasted seven years a spatial model was developed under the auspices of the Scientific Committee, on the basis of a large database of Cuvier's beaked whale sightings contributed by a number of scientific organisations (described in Cañadas et al. 2011, presented at the 63rd meeting of the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission). Based on the model, areas having high and medium probability of containing Ziphius' critical habitat were identified, and were surrounded by a safety buffer of 50 nautical miles (= 92.6 km) to allow for the intensity of noise to decay to safer levels before reaching the whales' critical habitat (Fig. 1).
The threshold of 50 n.m. was adopted on the basis of a very successful precedent implemented by Spain around the Canary Islands, after a tragic mass stranding of beaked whales occurred there in 2004 as a result of NATO naval manoeuvres. As an added precaution, the locations of 37 atypical beaked whale stranding events (defined as 2 or more whales stranded in the same area within a fixed amount of time), occurred in the Mediterranean from 1963 to 2011 and causing the death of 149 whales, were plotted on a different map, again with a safety buffer of 50 nautical miles (Fig. 2).
Having thus obtained a map of the predicted habitat of Cuvier's beaked whales, and a map of the atypical mass stranding of these whales, the two maps were combined in Fig. 3, resulting in the subdivision of the Mediterranean Sea into two area types: Areas of Special Concern for Beaked Whales (in yellow), and Areas on Unknown Risk (in grey)(*).
Thus, the Scientific Committee transmitted this last map to the parties to ACCOBAMS, with the recommendations that: a) naval exercises involving the use of loud anti-submarine sonar be avoided in the Areas of Special Concern; b) seismic exploration in the Areas of Special Concern be fully justified with Environmental Impact Assessments, including a report on the lack of alternative locations and an independently evaluated protocol to mitigate impacts; and c) mitigation should always be applied before, during and after activities emitting intense noise sources in Areas of Unknown Risk.
It all seemed quite reasonable, as it was formulated by the Scientific Committee in order to respond to a precise request by the parties, and presented with a constructive attitude to indicate a way forward. The Committee's intention was to help empowering the Mediterranean societies, which have declared their commitment to protect the region's cetaceans by ratifying the ACCOBAMS Agreement, to respect such commitment while at the same time assuaging their national security concerns and continuing to search for their coveted submerged oilfields. In its recommendation, the Scientific Committee also noted that although the results were the best that could be attained based on the available knowledge, these could certainly be improved in the future through the collection of more data, particularly in areas of the Mediterranean where beaked whale observations are still scant, and with the benefit of a full and transparent cooperation with all concerned stakeholders in good faith; the military and the oil & gas industry included and welcome, of course.
So, was the Scientific Committee of ACCOBAMS thanked and patted on the back for its lengthy and constructive efforts?
Not quite.
On 7 November 2013 I was asked to present the recommendation at the 5th Meeting of the Parties of ACCOBAMS in Tangier, Morocco. Unfortunately, I must report that the Scientific Committee's advice was dismissed by the parties, never mind that they were the ones that requested it in the first place. Due to a veto from France, Greece and Cyprus, on the grounds of safeguarding national security and, ultimately, national sovereignty, the very concept of suggesting place-based conservation of Ziphius cavirostris in the Mediterranean was thwarted. The representative from the Greek Ministry of Defense even went to the extreme of requesting that any reference to a map in the final report of the meeting be deleted, as if a map had never even been discussed. That request having been denied, the map is going to be made available to the public through the report. In compliance with the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, which Greece is party to, a copy of the map is also presented here as Fig. 3.
So, three more years will now elapse, and likely many more Cuvier's beaked whales will be extirpated from their remaining Mediterranean habitat, before the scientific community will have another chance of recommending concrete actions for safeguarding the last of the species in the region.
Ironically, at the same Tangier meeting the parties to ACCOBAMS, by adopting a new strategy for the period 2014-2025, emphasized their vision "that cetacean populations in the ACCOBAMS area will be in favourable conservation status, expressed as healthy populations and habitats with minimized adverse human impacts, with ACCOBAMS having a role of key regional player also in promoting active regional cooperation".
(*) The formulation of the Recommendation and the maps were the result of a cooperative work among Ana Cañadas, Alexandros Frantzis, Natacha Aguilar and myself, with the support of Niki Entrup, Tim Lewis and Walter Zimmer.
]]>The creation of the IUCN Joint SSC/WCPA Marine Mammal Protected Area Task Force (MMPATF) was formally announced on 24 October 2013 by Dan Laffoley, World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara on behalf of the . . . → Read More: IUCN's WCPA SSC Marine Mammal Protected Area Task Force launched]]>
The creation of the IUCN Joint SSC/WCPA Marine Mammal Protected Area Task Force (MMPATF) was formally announced on 24 October 2013 by Dan Laffoley, World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara on behalf of the Species Survival Commission (SSC), and Naomi McIntosh, International Committee on Marine Mammal Protected Areas (ICMMPA). The MMPATF objectives and further activities were described by the Task Force co-chairs, Erich Hoyt and Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara.
Following two global conferences (Hawaii, 2009; and Martinique, 2011) hosted by the ICMMPA, the Task Force was developed through the WCPA, the SSC and the ICMMPA to give a stronger voice to marine mammal needs within IUCN and to serve the larger marine mammal protected area community of practice.
Objectives of the new Task Force include a) facilitating mechanisms by which this "community of practice" can collaborate, share information and experience, access and disseminate knowledge and tools for establishing, monitoring, and managing marine mammal protected areas (MMPA) and promote effective spatial solutions and best practices for marine mammal conservation; b) bolstering capacity within the MMPA community by exposing it to state-of-the-art tools from the wider MPA and place-based conservation world; c) enabling the implementation of global MPA targets and agreements; and d) enhancing opportunities for cooperation, communication, exposure of related products and expertise to a far wider audience.
Task Force products and activities will likely include: publications, guidelines, best-practice guidance (e.g., in the Protected Planet series); consolidation and coordination of the global community of practice; outreach (conference presentations, workshops, website, social networks); application of new technologies (e.g., Google tools); provision of information on activities to WCPA – Marine and to SSC, and for protected area news in and outside of IUCN, as appropriate, on a regular basis; supporting pursuance of WCPA, SSC and IUCN goals where appropriate; and supporting relevant resolution drafting and World Park Congress planning and participation.
The Task Force's first initiative consists in the development of Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs), a working term we have devised to describe discrete portions of habitat, important to marine mammal species, that have the potential to be delineated and managed for conservation. IMMAs can be seen as a potential "marine mammal layer" which represent a pre-selection for consideration by governments, conservation groups, and the general public of areas that deserve consideration for space-based protection. In addition, by linking IMMAs to the larger world of the Convention on Biological Diversity's Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas (CBD EBSAs), IUCN Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs), and Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) work, we hope to accelerate the process of habitat protection for marine mammals and the ecosystems that support them. The networking of IMMAs could represent a cost-effective approach to conservation. They can help supply the basis for future MPAs, MPA networks, marine spatial planning and support marine biodiversity conservation in general through marine mammal flagship, umbrella and indicator properties.
In order to identify and propose IMMAs, a set of criteria must be developed— simple and flexible to allow use in different countries and geographic areas. Criteria must be science-based and applicable to all main marine mammal taxa, and be able to account for the major ecological and biological differences that exist among marine mammals. To achieve this goal, the MMPATF organised on 22 October 2013 in Marseille a workshop dedicated to the selection of IMMA criteria, with the participation of specialists familiar with the main marine mammal taxa, as well as those working in the CBD EBSA and IUCN KBA arenas, and those who have worked on devising the original criteria descriptions for these approaches. This workshop—funded by the Animal Welfare Institute and The Pacific Life Foundation, with the help of The Ocean Foundation and Whale and Dolphin Conservation—confirmed the importance of establishing IMMAs specifically and KBAs generally as lists of potential sites for the designation of EBSAs in the marine environment as endorsed by the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. A working group, set up from this workshop, will now work to finalize the criteria and determine next steps for its testing and implementation.
]]>In December 2012 a large great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, got caught in a tuna net in Tunisia, near Sousse, and was killed by the fishermen involved. A video of the brutal episode is available on the internet.
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In December 2012 a large great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, got caught in a tuna net in Tunisia, near Sousse, and was killed by the fishermen involved. A video of the brutal episode is available on the internet.
The Mediterranean population of great white sharks is currently listed as Endangered in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, due to an inferred population size reduction based on indices of abundance and decline in extent of occurrence and quality of habitat. Recent evidence that the Mediterranean population has little or no contemporary immigration from the Atlantic further adds to the vulnerability of this isolated population. Accordingly, Carcharodon carcharias is listed as protected in a number of international Conventions, to which Tunisia is Party:
Compliance by Tunisia to the spirit and letter of the above Conventions to protect this endangered species is particularly important, in view of the compelling evidence that the coastal waters of Tunisia and the Tunisian Plateau are viewed as the main Mediterranean nursery area for great white sharks.
I was informed by local contacts that the episode portrayed in the video may not have been an isolated case, and considering the level of threat to the species, its protected status and its ecological importance, it is to be hoped that the Tunisian Government will do all that is possible to ensure that individuals of great white sharks are not unnecessarily killed, and that when one of them becomes accidentally caught in fishing gear, all efforts are taken to ensure that it can be released unharmed.
Obviously, dealing safely with such large and potentially dangerous fishes is not an easy task, ad it is possible that the Tunisian Government would need assistance from international experts to plan and conduct such operations in the best possible way. Support could involve working towards capture avoidance and best handling practice guidelines, the promotion of ecological knowledge of the species through tagging and release of accidentally-caught specimens, and the generation of awareness-raising and education material.
On 26 September 2013 a letter to this effect was sent to the Tunisian Ministers of the environment and agriculture by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), co-signed by the Julia Marton-Lefèvre, IUCN's Director general, and by Simon N. Stuart, Chair of the Species Survival Commission.
While we stand-by with bated breath to see what will be the reaction of the Tunisian Government to the exhortation by IUCN, we are happy to note that the attitudes of Mediterranean fishermen towards great white sharks can be quite diverse.
See for example, a video posted by Uzay Sezen of a great white pup which was caught alive in July 2011 and released unharmed by a fisherman and president of the local fishing cooperative from Altinoluk, a Turkish village bordering on the Aegean Sea.
As we can see, the fate of the small great white shark in Turkey turned out to be quite different from that of the unlucky big mama in Tunisia, and gives us hope that with goodwill and vision from within the fishing community, there may still be be a future for great white sharks in the Mediterranean Sea. Governments notwithstanding.
If YOU would like to help The Manta Trust to conserve both species of mantas please sign and share its online petition here. You might have seen online petitions for these types of conservation initiatives before, but to find out what The Manta Trust's petition is all about and WHY YOUR SIGNATURE WILL REALLY HELP read on… If English . . . → Read More: Sign the Petition and Help Protect Mantas]]>
If YOU would like to help The Manta Trust to conserve both species of mantas please sign and share its online petition here. You might have seen online petitions for these types of conservation initiatives before, but to find out what The Manta Trust's petition is all about and WHY YOUR SIGNATURE WILL REALLY HELP read on… If English isn't your first language please follow the links in the page to read more and understand our campaign.
The petition is specifically targeting the delegates of CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) in each of the 177 signatory nations to this convention. CITES is the only international treaty established to protect endangered species that is considered binding on member nations. Every 3 years this body meets to vote on species to be protected under the convention. On 4th October 2012, it was announced officially that Brazil, Ecuador and Columbia submitted the proposal to have the Genus Manta listed on Appendix II at the next convention to be held in Bangkok on 3rd-14th March 2013. With the proposal for the genus Manta accepted, it is up to member nations to vote upon this. A two thirds majority vote will secure this vital international protection for mantas. The Manta Trust's petition to the voting members will, we hope, highlight the case for the conservation of mantas and persuade them to vote in favour of the proposal.
Read further here on why do mantas need protection, and how will your signature help.
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]]>More than 20 years ago (1991), under the impetus of the highest concern for the survival of cetacean populations in the Mediterranean, strongly impacted by human activities (most notably bycatch in pelagic driftnets), with colleagues I . . . → Read More: Pushing forward the Pelagos Sanctuary and the conservation of marine mammals in the Mediterranean Sea]]>
More than 20 years ago (1991), under the impetus of the highest concern for the survival of cetacean populations in the Mediterranean, strongly impacted by human activities (most notably bycatch in pelagic driftnets), with colleagues I lobbied for the establishment of a large (87,000 km2) marine mammal sanctuary in the region's NW portion, covering an area containing critical habitat of several cetacean species. Subsequently (1999), the Pelagos Sanctuary was formally established by a treaty among France, Italy and Monaco, and was later included in the list of Specially Protected Areas of Mediterranean Importance (SPAMIs) under the purview of the Barcelona Convention. As the world's first MPA established in the high seas, Pelagos has served significantly the purpose of attracting attention to the need of protecting Areas Beyond Natural Jurisdiction (ABNJ).
Today, however, 13 years after its designation, I cannot state that the Pelagos Sanctuary has been doing much for the local populations of whales and dolphins. It has never been properly managed — in fact there is no management body. Trying to overcome the sense of frustration caused by this condition, I think that this impasse needs to be overcome through some lateral thinking.
The situation of marine protection of the Mediterranean is different today from when the idea of Pelagos was first conceived, in the early '90s. First, driftnets are no longer the main threat to cetaceans, having been made illegal (although some pockets of illegal use still persist in southern Italy, Morocco and Turkey, which are causing cetacean mortality). Second, in the frame of a process that will eventually cause international waters to become extinct in the Mediterranean, Pelagos lies no longer in ABNJ, being now within France's Mediterranean EEZ and Italy's Ecological Protection Zone. Third, the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic (ACCOBAMS), under the Convention on Migratory Species, has come into force since 2002, with a wide regional membership and the mandate of protecting cetaceans everywhere in the Mediterranean, not just inside the borders of Pelagos.
So, has Pelagos served its function, and should it now be sent to retirement? I don't think so, particularly because of the local sense of pride that it has generated during the years (more that 40 coastal municipalities in France and Italy have deliberated to be partners of the Pelagos Sanctuary). However, I think that its nature could be modified to best meet the current and future challenges.
A proposal: reduce and enlarge Pelagos
This could perhaps be achieved by simultaneously reducing and enlarging Pelagos. Let me clarify. I would first reduce it by limiting its purview over areas that really contain cetacean critical habitat, thereby leaving outside wide portions of marine surface, currently included inside Pelagos' perimeter, that have little or no significance for cetacean conservation. At the same time, I would include within Pelagos other areas containing cetacean critical habitat throughout the Western Mediterranean – from Gibraltar all the way to the Sicily Strait – thereby transforming Pelagos into a Western Mediterranean network of marine mammal core conservation areas. We now have the ecological information needed to accomplish this task. In turn, this network would contribute to strengthen the bases for the identification of EBSAs (CBD's Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas) in the region. In addition, it would serve as an introduction to the implementation of a Marine Spatial Planning scheme whereby all human activities in the Mediterranean that are currently impairing or threatening marine mammal conservation – such as navigation, military, oil exploration, fishing – will be made to coexist with environmental protection.
Perhaps by going in this direction it will be easier to give the Pelagos Sanctuary a more meaningful and manageable character. I admit that the idea is still pretty raw, and will need quite more tinkering to make its implementation possible, or even desirable, within the current Mediterranean governance complexity. This is the reason why I am posting it on OpenChannels: to seek comments and suggestions which will help to understand whether the idea has potential, and eventually make progress with it.
]]>Towards the end of summer 2009 the welcome news arrived that great white sharks still exist in the Mediterranean. A newborn female, slightly longer than 1.5 m, sadly met her fate in the bottom of a . . . → Read More: Debunking myths on Mediterranean great white sharks]]>
Towards the end of summer 2009 the welcome news arrived that great white sharks still exist in the Mediterranean. A newborn female, slightly longer than 1.5 m, sadly met her fate in the bottom of a trawl net. Fishermen from the island of Lampedusa reported the event to Simonpietro Canese, a researcher from ISPRA who was inventorying marine biodiversity in the Strait of Sicily.
It has been a while since the occurrence of the species in the region was in the news. The Mediterranean population of great white sharks, Carcharodon carcharias as it is known to scientists, is listed as Endangered in the Red List,
due to inferred significant reduction in numbers during the last decades. Although the reason(s) for decline is uncertain, the dismal conservation status of bluefin tuna, the sharks' main prey in the region, is a likely candidate.
I don't expect all readers to share my sense of elation, experienced in learning about the continued presence in our seas of the great predator. After all, there are not many species left on the planet which are able to devour a human being, and the great white shark is one of them. The perspective of being thorn to pieces by a sea monster still evokes in all of us an instinctive sense of horror; however in this case our instinct is unjustified, because in the Mediterranean there is little substance to the problem. This consideration provides me with the opportunity for trying to debunk some of the most common myths concerning the presence and dangerousness of great white sharks in the Mediterranean Sea.
Myth n. 1. Great whites enter the Mediterranean from the Atlantic through the Gibraltar Strait following ships. False. The Mediterranean hosts a resident population of these sharks, which are found in the region regularly (although in low densities), and breed here as well, as indicated most recently by the unlucky newborn from Lampedusa. By contrast, great white sharks are quite rare in the north-east Atlantic Ocean, so that in fact the exact opposite is more likely.
Myth n. 2. Great whites live in the open seas, and rarely come close to the coast. False. It is not on the basis of the distance from the coast, but on the basis of the presence of their prey that great white sharks decide where they want to be. In other seas, such as for instance off California, southern Australia and South Africa, these sharks are frequently found in few metres of water in front of rookeries of seals and sea lions, which are their main course in those locations. Significantly, great white sharks get occasionally caught in tuna traps (almadrabas or tonnare), which are laid along Mediterranean shores to intercept migrating bluefin tunas.
Myth n. 3. Great whites are a significant threat to Mediterranean swimmers. False. Please don't get me wrong, there have been episodes in which a great white shark killed a human in the Mediterranean: to be exact, 21 cases in the entire basin in more than a century (1907-2010), i.e., 0.2 attacks per year on average, the last of which occurred 23 years ago in the bay of Baratti (near Livorno, Italy). A modest death toll indeed, compared for example with the tens of persons who die every year in Europe as a consequence of a bee sting. Casualties from shark attacks in the Mediterranean become even less significant considering every summer bathers in the Mediterranean waters number in the tens of millions.
This is a typical example of media bias: when a great white shark appears near our coasts it goes on TV right away, whereas nobody takes notice of the much more dangerous hornet.
]]>This article was published in Italian on 23 June 2011 on the website of "Il Fatto Quotidiano"
A group of leading experts in marine conservation met in London last April to take stock of the condition of the oceans, and days ago a report with their conclusions hit the world's . . . → Read More: The oceans are dying, long live the oceans!]]>
This article was published in Italian on 23 June 2011 on the website of "Il Fatto Quotidiano"
A group of leading experts in marine conservation met in London last April to take stock of the condition of the oceans, and days ago a report with their conclusions hit the world's media. Not much to be rejoicing about, really, although the depressing picture which emerged from the workshop is certainly not a surprise. The oceans' waters are getting warmer, their acidity is increasing, hypoxic and anoxic zones are expanding. The speed of phenomena often matches the worst case scenario foreseen by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and some times it is even worse.
The cumulative effects of the various impacts are greater than expected, while the timelines for action are shrinking. Furthermore, the oceans' resilience to the effects of climate change is hampered by other types of pressures such as overfishing, pollution and habitat destruction. In short, many ecosystems are near collapse, and the number of species threatened with extinction keeps increasing. The loss of biodiversity, until now largely confined to local scales, is becoming global; within a single generation we risk losing entire ecosystems, such as coral reefs. "Unless action is taken now – concludes the report – the consequences of our activities area at a high risk of causing [ … ] the next globally significant extinction event in the ocean". Such extinction is caused solely by human action; it is not by chance that the era in which we live has been named Anthropocene.
The most urgent comment to offer in the face of such an expected disaster is that it affects us all greatly. Demolishing ecosystems is no trivial matter, particularly marine ecosystems that provide essential services to humankind, such as the production of oxygen and nutrients, water depuration, maintenance of hydrological balance, absorption of atmospheric CO2; and we know that biodiversity is essential for the proper functioning of ecosystems. Furthermore, oceans are not solely providers of services of fundamental importance to humans; they do much more than that. The seas are a powerful source of inspiration, of awe, and attraction for humankind. The seas move us to compose music and write poetry; they make us dream and conjure us to fall in love. All these feelings become impossible when facing a rotting and lifeless puddle, no matter how large it is.
The explanation of why we are rushing towards disaster like passengers of a train without a driver resides in the realm of social and political sciences rather than in that of ecology. A key component of this malaise resides in the divorce from the natural world that has progressively developed within the most cultured layers of modern societies, which also affects many of those who read blogs. These people thrive within a super-protected bubble which is totally cut-off from the universe, and for this reason they are misled into thinking that their bubble is the universe. When a tsunami hits, it destroys the bubble and reduces its unwitting inhabitants to pulp.
To be clear, this warning against the effects of a clear absence of adequate environmental policy plaguing humankind is not equivalent to a prophecy of doom. The Cassandras have never been endearing characters. I remember well the sense of annoyance that the unlucky Trojan princess elicited, when reading Homer in my school days: "stop whining – I almost wanted to tell her – do something instead". The poor girl couldn't do much, really, since the destruction of her world was ineluctable. Herein lies the difference. In our case there still is time for action, but if we want to succeed we need clear, determined and effective political will. Alas, there is still no sign of such political will above the horizon.
It would be difficult to find a better example than the swordfish fishery in Italy for exemplifying what NOT to do as far as management of the marine environment and its resources are concerned. In the old . . . → Read More: Pelagic driftnets: a Mediterranean metastasis]]>
It would be difficult to find a better example than the swordfish fishery in Italy for exemplifying what NOT to do as far as management of the marine environment and its resources are concerned. In the old days swordfish was mostly caught by harpoon, the most selective fishing method there is. The problems started in the '80s, when pelagic driftnets dozens of miles long, also known with the name of "walls of death", came into vogue.
Driftnets are too efficient, and end up emptying the seas; at the same time, they are quite unselective: adult swordfish, the target of the fishery, make up only one fifth of the catch and everything else that gets caught end up discarded, dead or dying: undersized swordfish, sharks, manta rays, sunfish and other large pelagic fish, turtles, seabirds, dolphins and even the great whales. Driftnets deployed in the '90s by over 700 Italian vessels, with an overall net length probably exceeding 10,000 km, have devastated the Mediterranean population of sperm whales, which were once common but are now listed as endangered in the Red List of threatened species. In addition, driftnets and have been the cause of significant mortality of striped dolphins, common dolphins, Risso's dolphins, Cuvier's beaked whales, pilot whales; in total, many thousands of individuals every year. Dying in a driftnet, for these highly social and intelligent mammals, is a slow death entailing horrible and useless suffering, with the weight of the net impeding their surfacing to breathe, and with the net's mesh sinking into raw wounds.
In view of the pelagic driftnets' destructive potential, the United Nations General Assembly decreed in 1989, and reiterated in 1991, a global moratorium starting from 1992. The European Union followed suit imposing on its fleets a maximum net length of 2.5 km per boat in 1992, and the total ban from 1 January 2002. Quite typically, Italy tried hard to disregard international and European rules, like, at the expense of the taxpayer as well as of the health of the sea. Quite tellingly, the initial approach of the Italian government – when Adriana Poli Bortone, then the minister of agricultural resources, declared that she would ask the Commission for a derogation to allow the nets a maximum length of 9 km, and went to the extreme of inviting the coast guard "not to fine fishermen caught in illegal situations " – did not change much in the decades to follow, in spite of damning evidence of the destructiveness of pelagic driftnets. And it is a fact that the only European country which continues to turn a blind eye when it comes to pelagic driftnet is Italy.
In anticipation of the entry into force of the total ban of driftnetting in European waters in 2002, the European Commission allocated €200 million for the conversion of the Italian vessels. This sounds like a lot of money but in reality it is not that much considering that the market value of swordfish in Italy is thought to be amounting to €4billion/year, legal and illegal catches combined. No wonder that so many fishermen chose not to accept the offer, preferring to continue operating illegally. Worse still, several others pocketed the money for the conversion and then continued – and still continue – to fish, undeterred and unopposed. The reaction of the state in the face of such blatant lawlessness was patchy: some intervention occurred here and there (3000 km of net were confiscated in 2006), although in most places lack interest, and in some cases even connivance, were the rule. In summary, thanks to the lack of transparency in the controls, or of their absence, it can be said that public money was used in Italy to a large extent to support illegal fishing.
In 2009 the European Court of Justice sent a first warning condemning Italy for failing to comply with European law, but without imposing financial penalties. Since there was no appreciable improvement, however, we can now expect a less benevolent treatment. A survey conducted recently in Sicily and Ponza by undercover inspectors of the European Commission, who noticed the persisting tolerance for flagrant illegality by the enforcement authorities, is likely to herald the opening by the Commission of an infringement procedure against Italy, with a subsequent stiff penalty, particularly painful in these times of crisis. We cannot blame the Italian taxpayers for their frustration for bearing the cost of such sloppy governance three times: the first for the conversion, the second for the fine, and finally – worse even – for seeing its seas remaining unprotected and further degraded.
This article first appeared on the "Monk Seal Latest News". I thank William Johnson, Editor of The Monachus Guardian, for significantly improving our manuscript. The article is co-authored by Mahmoud Fouad, from the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency of . . . → Read More: Monk seal sightings in Egypt]]>
This article first appeared on the "Monk Seal Latest News". I thank William Johnson, Editor of The Monachus Guardian, for significantly improving our manuscript. The article is co-authored by Mahmoud Fouad, from the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency of Cairo.
On 7 April, during a recent trip along Egypt's Mediterranean coast to establish stakeholder contacts in implementing a National Action Plan for the Conservation of Cetaceans in that country, funded by the Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas (RAC/SPA) of Tunis, we were informed by the local community of Marsa Matrouh of a spate of monk seal sightings in the area. The news had generated considerable excitement, since the species has long been considered extinct in Egypt.
In a meeting at the offices of the Director of Environmental Affairs of the Marsa Matrouh Governorate, fishermen reported that seals had been observed several times during the previous 10 days. Mr. Abd El Malek in particular, a fisherman about 60 years old, was very clear. He had begun noticing that something was pulling fish out of his trammel nets, "in a very professional way", i.e. without breaking the mesh. His boys had told him that they had seen a very strange animal around the nets, similar to those they had watched on TV, in the "yellow square" (National Geographic) eating penguins under the ice. At first he didn't believe them: throughout his life, he'd never seen a seal in these waters; other fishermen said the same. After several attempts, however, they indeed caught a glimpse of a seal resting on one of the small sandy beaches along the local rocky coastline, and managed to take a few pictures and even a short video with their cell phones. Other fishermen agreed, asserting that they had frequently seen up to five seals during the same period, in a location about 5 km away from the first, and that their nets had been completely destroyed.
While we consider this last snippet of information unsubstantiated and rather unlikely, the documentation provided by Abd El Malek leaves no doubt that at least one monk seal had made its appearance in Egypt, more than 20 years after the species was last reported from the country. Based on a very preliminary assessment, it seems quite possible that both photographs and the video are of the same seal, and we can thus only be certain about the presence of that one individual. Unfortunately, we also heard rumours that one seal had been killed — which, if true, might mean that this recent monk seal foray into Egypt ended abruptly in tragedy.
What might have led a monk seal to visit Egypt again after so many years of absence is open to speculation: natural dispersion from adjacent remaining concentration areas, war-induced dislodgment from Cyrenaica – a putative, yet unconfirmed area of occupancy – are all possible explanations, hopefully to be confirmed by future sightings. Certainly, a careful preparatory work, largely based on local awareness and involvement campaigns, is now needed to ensure that the area may eventually be recolonized by monk seals. To that end, the ongoing effort to conserve cetaceans in the area has quickly been renamed the RAC/SPA's "National Action Plan for the Conservation of Marine Mammals in the Egyptian Mediterranean".
Our intuition was right about the ground, which at the time was indeed fertile for a good seed to germinate. There was a need for the work that Tethys was set to do, and this need was felt more strongly by the general public in Italy than by the national research and governing institutions, which unfortunately have always given Tethys – particularly in the early years – more trouble than support. Carrying out conservation-minded research on the ecology of free-ranging cetaceans was still a quite esoteric endeavour, in Italy like elsewhere. Twenty five years ago we weren't even sure what cetacean species existed in the Mediterranean; we did know about a few but the rest was fog. Now we know a lot, and although this progress in knowledge is certainly the result of the collective effort by a growing number of passionate scientists around the Mediterranean and beyond, Tethys always was, and still is, at the forefront. Tethys contributed significantly to demonstrate the validity of methods and techniques, spread scientific results, stimulate public awareness, and spur decision-makers into deciding.
It has been an intense period, full of hard work and satisfactions. Research techniques which have now become commonplace, such as photo-identification, the use of telemetry, the collection of biopsies for contaminant and population structure research, and modelling techniques to extract from the data significant insight, were all applied by Tethys since the early years. More than 300 scientific papers – in large part on international, refereed journals – were published to describe Tethys' research results. A large number of young scientists were trained during this time, always under the imperative that science was to be used as a tool to promote conservation, and contributed with 60 university theses. Finally, research was used to stimulate actions in the real world. Amongst many, the idea of a cetacean sanctuary in the Ligurian Sea – later resulting in an international treaty amongst France, Italy and Monaco creating the Pelagos Sanctuary– that occurred to me when considering the overwhelming importance of that area for cetaceans, which had become obvious during a first set of sighting cruises across all Italian seas.
Tethys was ten years old when I felt forced to abandon the helm, having been called to lead a governmental marine research institute. That adventure now thankfully beyond my back, I have accepted to become again the president of Tethys. Challenges are greater than ever, however our little tree has now its roots solidly grounded in rock, thanks to a long list of people – former students, friends, colleagues – who have worked hard and competently during these 25 years. Most importantly, it is the work that Tethys does that is more needed than ever. The state of the Mediterranean marine environment is not getting any better. The human population across the coastal zone is increasing, habitat degradation is rampant, political will to do anything serious about it would be below zero if that were mathematically possible, and as a consequence the suffering of habitats and species is under everyone's eyes. A long overdue re-awakening of the public opinion against this onslaught is sorely needed. When that will happen, Tethys will be there. It is so sweet to be home again.


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