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Oceana welcomes new EU Biodiversity Strategy as critical to rebuilding marine resilience and enabling a ‘blue’ future for Europe

Oceana welcomes the European Commission’s much expected new 10-year plan, presented today, to save biodiversity and its ambition to deliver urgent action to protect the environment – something that 90% of EU citizens support (Eurobarometer Survey). Restoring healthy, well-functioning and resilient natural ecosystems is also central to the European Green Deal and has become an … Read more

Protecting the North Sea: Norway

The Norwegian waters of the North Sea represent an exceptional enclave of marine biodiversity in the region, with an array of ecological features that distinguish it from the rest of the North Sea. In particular, the Norwegian Trench (also known as the Norwegian Deep) – which reaches depths of roughly 700 m – represents the deepest … Read more

Oceana urges strong ambition to restore nature and oceans, EU to lead by example

Today the European Commission and the UN Environment Programme launched a Global Coalition for Biodiversity, building momentum ahead of the international negotiations of the UN Convention of Biological Diversity COP15 in China in October 2020. Oceana welcomes this call for action and urges all governments to agree on ambitious post-2020 targets that protect oceans effectively, … Read more

Protecting the North Sea: Holderness

The waters off Holderness, north of the Humber Estuary on the Yorkshire coast, represent a very rich area in terms of marine biodiversity. This is partly due to the mosaic of substrate types found in the area, which range from rocky bottoms and coarse sediment through to mixed sediment, sand, and mud. This array of … Read more

Protecting the North Sea: Cleaver Bank

Cleaver Bank (Klaverbank in Dutch) extends over 1235 km2 in a transboundary area shared between the UK and the Netherlands (Fig. 1). In comparison with surrounding areas, it is home to a diverse benthic community and a wide variety of substrates, specifically gravel and dispersed rocks that originated in the last Ice Age (15 000 … Read more

Biodiversity of the Invertebrates (minus Arthropods) in Spain

In this paper, the state of the art about the knowledge of the biodiversity of Invertebrates (minus Arthropods) in general and, particularly in Spain, is exposed, giving numerical data of the reported or estimated species of each group of this heterogeneous aggregation of animal Phyla. Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural – Spanish (PDF) Download “Biodiversity … Read more

A giant foraminifer that converges to the feeding strategy of carnivorous sponges: Spiculosiphon oceana sp. nov. (Foraminifera, Astrorhizida)

Agglutinated foraminifera make a relatively diverse group of organisms, which is taxonomically defined as a subclass (Textulariia) and comprises four orders. The orders are based upon gross morphology, wall structure, and cement composition (Kaminski 2004). The cement that binds the test together may be organic (as in the Astrorhizida), calcareous and canaliculate (as in the … Read more

Meet the Chilean Devil Ray

A few days ago, the Internet was abuzz with news about the Chilean Devil Ray’s ability to reach previously unknown depths. What a perfect excuse to introduce this species to our readers! Despite its intimidating name, this mostly solitary creature (though it can be found in groups) is harmless to humans and feeds on small … Read more

Animal behavioral studies

Is there anything we can learn from all the animals that we share the planet with? I think most people would say a definitive yes, but when quizzed about exactly what, I’m not so sure all of us could come up with a well thought-out answer. Personally, I think we can learn something about behaviour. … Read more

Oceana welcomes new EU Biodiversity Strategy as critical to rebuilding marine resilience and enabling a ‘blue’ future for Europe

Protecting the North Sea: Norway

Oceana urges strong ambition to restore nature and oceans, EU to lead by example

Protecting the North Sea: Holderness

Protecting the North Sea: Cleaver Bank

Biodiversity of the Invertebrates (minus Arthropods) in Spain

A giant foraminifer that converges to the feeding strategy of carnivorous sponges: Spiculosiphon oceana sp. nov. (Foraminifera, Astrorhizida)

Meet the Chilean Devil Ray

Animal behavioral studies

A giant foraminifer that converges to the feeding strategy of carnivorous sponges: Spiculosiphon oceana sp. nov. (Foraminifera, Astrorhizida)

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