Marine Environment

New Fungus Destroys Petroleum Pollution

Amazon researchers use living organisms to help clean up oil spills using Mycoremediation technique. Source: www.amazonmycorenewal.org

A Solution to Pollution - Mycoremediation in the Ecuadorian Amazon - Nicola Peel A film by Nicola Peel, about how mushrooms are helping to clean up oil spills in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Mycoremediation is an incredible technique using fungi to break down oil and other contaminants.

Gordon Ramsay Says No to Shark Finning

An excellent video of Gordon Ramsay investigating the appeal of shark's fin, and witnessing the bestial killing and finning of sharks. Filmed in Taiwan and Costa Rica.

To help donate, http://www.sharktrust.org/en/donate http://www.seashepherd.org/commentary-and-editorials/2012/03/19/no-protection-no-hope-522 More info from Gordon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ubR0LbQv0#t=187 How many fins? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm2r_N03lOc You must listen to this show on How Everything is Connected. It is amazing! http://click.et.npr.org/?qs=e522e4ec59d0697c2754bc497b42dd3d4fb9cb2caef16f52f5740b706f1a98729b4ec1c8c57e83128036b9607c9c2e8e The Ted talk. http://www.ted.com/talks/george_monbiot_for_more_wonder_rewild_the_world.html Fins on the street http://vimeo.com/37750108# http://vimeo.com/39968805# The whole show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SAkq6lsnoE Also some people seem to think Shark fin why not foie gras?

Greenbelt Report: Armed by Nature

Mangroves, coral reefs and sand reefs are under immense pressure from poverty, population growth and economic development. Filmed in India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand - four countries worst hit by the Tsunami - documentary looks at conservation activities by communities, researchers and activists. (9:23 mins)

Koh Tao Hin Fai Biorock Project 2008

In 2008 the community of Koh Tao came together with the Save Koh Tao Group to construct the largest Biorock(tm) Artificial Reef Structure in the Gulf of Thailand. This structure is being used as an alternative dive site to reduce preseeures on natural areas, as a buoyancy training ground for novice divers, and as a coral and fish nursery. Due to Biorock technology, corals on the site will grow 3-5 times faster than corals in natural conditions, mainting or even increasing the biodiversity, resilience, and abundance of corals around our island. 

Biorock in "Karang Lestari" Pemuteran Bali 2007

In Pemuteran, Bali, scientists, conservationists hotels, dive shops, fishermen, and villages have gotten together to build coral nurseries on which corals grow faster than normal, and around which fish school. To repopulate the area as quickly as possible with coral and fish, coral nurseries were built using the Electrolytic Mineral Accretion Technology (BiorockTM) of Hilbertz and Goreau. It is an outstanding effort to save corals from manmade destruction by bombs, cyanide fishing and global warming. 

In Pemuteran,Bali, scientists, conservationists, hotels, dive shops, fishermen, and villages have gotten together to build coral nurseries on which corals grow faster than normal, and around which fish school. To repopulate the area as quickly as possible with coral and fish, coral nurseries were built using the Electrolytic Mineral Accretion Technology (BiorockTM) of Hilbertz and Goreau.

Biorock Structure Tour at "Karang Lestari" Bali 2008

This video is showing "Karang Lestari", the biggest Bio-Rock Project in the World. It was created as a Coral Nursery, Coral Protection Project or Coral Ark. It is located in Pemuteran Bay, North-West Bali, Indonesia and stretches about 500 Meters in front of "Taman Sari Bali Cottages".