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Ocean Report |
BEACH CLOSED: Border Field State Beach to South End of Imperial Beach |
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 "Saving the Gray Whale: People, Politics, and Conservation in Baja California" written by WiLDCOAST Executive Director Serge Dedina Ph.D.
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Clean Water Now
Clean Water Now! is the rally cry for thousands of coastal residents in south San Diego County and Tijuana who are demanding an end to the ocean pollution threatening their way of life. It is time for our elected officials and policy makers to support a real comprehensive solution to this pollution. |
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Laguna San Ignacio
Laguna San Ignacio, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is home to sea turtles, peregrine falcons, ospreys, and hundreds of thousands of migratory waterfowls and shorebirds, and is the last undeveloped gray whale birthing lagoon on the planet. Laguna San Ignacio is part of a 248-mile-coastline wetland complex that includes intertidal mudflats, salt flats, sandy beaches, and mangroves. This wetland complex is a global treasure and one of the world’s most biologically significant coastal sites. |
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Sea Turtles
Sea turtles have existed on Earth for more than 150 million years, meaning that they co-existed with dinosaurs. There are seven species of sea turtles, five of which spend long periods on Mexican coasts, especially on the coasts of the Baja California peninsula.
They come from places as far as Japan, southern Mexico and Hawaii. Sea turtles symbolize SURVIVAL, if they survive our destructive and ethnocentric civilization, all other species can survive as well. |
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Defiende el Mar
Defiende el Mar (Defend the Sea) is a movement in which all individuals, organizations and communities play a very important role. Everyone should be a part of it. We all need to have a basic knowledge of what is happening in our oceans, so we can take action and defend the sea. |
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Sharks...Killing Machines or Victims?
Exploited by the media as “vicious killing machines”, sharks have long been cast as man’s ultimate ocean enemy. Through the years, sharks have earned top billing in the in best-selling books, news segments and blockbuster films. Thanks to all that fame, no marine species is more misunderstood or threatened.
Sharks are essential to life in the ocean, since they feed from sick, weak or old animals, regulating the health of other species. If we destroy them in exchange for a short-term economic gain, we risk a loss of unimaginable proportions in the long run: the destruction of our oceans and hence, ourselves. |
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