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Help protect manta rays in Hawaii!
Doug Perrine
Hawaii is one of a few locations in the world where manta rays can be observed in the wild on a regular basis. However, there is currently no protection for
these manta rays in state waters. Manta rays around the world are being killed for their meat, skin, cartilage, and branchial elements which are being used in
traditional Asian medicines. Recent threats of take by collectors have caused concern that there are no laws currently protecting manta rays. With only 154
individuals identified in Kona since 1992, these amazing animals are highly vulnerable.
wo bills have been introduced in the Hawaii State House and Senate
this year that would prohibit the capture or killing of manta rays in Hawaii State waters. Please join us in efforts to protect these charismatic animals by
sending testimony in support of HB366 and SB394.
Up Coming Events
ELYSIUM
A team comprising of the world’s best nature conservation photographers, film makers, artists, musicians and scientists will embark on an imaging epic from the Weddell Sea of Antarctic Peninsula to South Georgia. The team will be documenting the life above and below the ice, more or less following the trail of the 1914 Endurance Expedition by Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew of 28. It was the greatest true adventure story of the last century.
The explorers comprise of David Doubilet, Jennifer Hayes, Wyland, Amos Nachoum, Heather Angel, Leandro Blanco, Álvaro de Marichalar, Michael AW and Jamie Watt will be
producing a book, a movie but most importantly to curate a visual index database for climate change references of the Antarctic Peninsula and South Georgia. This 2010
expedition is billed to be the greatest photographic epic of the 21th century. If you wish to contribute or participate in this epic of a colossal scale email:
info@ElysiumEpic.org
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Featured Articles
Penguins and Us
Michael Aw
We have a lot in common with penguins. Yes, those flightless birds on two feet that mostly sits around like the extinct Dodo birds of the Mauritius. Explore within our biological alcove and you will discover that our natural affection for penguins is quite primal. Think about it, the similarities of both species are almost uncanny. We dress up and we behave as if the feathers or clothes we wear make us unique in appearance.
Apex of Extremities
Göran Ehlmé
On 15th March we passed the latitude of the islands of South Orkneys. The captain informed me that at one time quantities of seals inhabited those islands, but English and American whalers in their zeal for killing, massacred males and females indiscriminately; where once life had been, after their departure was the silence of death. On 16th March at 8am, the Nautilus crossed the Antarctic Circle. ..The Ice assumed the most impressive and beautiful forms. Here was an oriental town with innumerable mosques and minarets; there a city thrown headlong to the ground by some natural convulsion.
Unlikely Eden - Okavango Delta
Jen Hayes & David Doubilet
The phrase “What in hell are we doing here?” passed through both through both of our minds as we drifted down the Ncamasere Channel in the velvet black of Africa’s night. The idea of an underwater story in a land locked desert in southern Africa began over a single malt scotch in a bar in Washington D.C. Over that drink, a famed wildlife photographer friend and colleague discussed the unique beauty of Botswana’s Okavango Delta. David and I, long seduced by the siren’s call of the sea, were drawn to the idea of this delicate and dangerous freshwater world like moths are drawn to a light (where of course they all eventually die.)