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November 2011 E-Current
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 E-Current
November 2011 |
In This Issue: Photo Contest Winner • Coral Reef Conservation Meetings • Creature Feature: Cuttlefish • Sign the Shark Pledge
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Photo Contest Winner Announced!
Congratulations to William Goodwin from Birmingham, Alabama, who is now a three-time winner of the E-Current Photo Contest! William captured this exceptional portrait of a leopard toadfish (Opsanus pardus) off the coast of South Florida. William writes of his subject: "This unusual foot-long fish is really a character—its benthic habits benefit from the fact that those baby blues rotate so that they can look straight up or out to the side...The males grunt or croak (thus toadfish) quite loudly to attract a mate or intimidate an interloper." Click below to download William's image as your desktop wallpaper and learn more about the photo contest.
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Coral Reef Meetings Target Reef Resilience
Back-to-back coral reef meetings in Florida last month gave CORAL the opportunity to share our recent reef resilience to climate change work with the global conservation community. The 26th meeting of the United States Coral Reef Task Force, held in conjunction with the 2nd Reef Resilience Conference, brought together an eminent group of collaborators to strategize how best to protect our planet's coral reefs.
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Creature Feature: Meet the Cuttlefish
Cuttlefish are some of the most intriguing coral reef creatures. These cephalopods have one of the highest brain-to-body size ratios of any invertebrate, and can rapidly change the color, pattern, and texture of their skin to aid in camouflage, mating, and hunting. When in danger, they can jet away at high speeds, shooting out ink either as a smokescreen cloud or as a mucus-encased bubble that functions as a decoy. Longtime CORAL member Dr. Steve Cohen took this beautiful footage of cuttlefish in Wakatobi, Indonesia.
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Pledge to Support Shark Protection in Fiji
Sharks are important for the environment, economy, and culture of Fiji, and they need your support! Become a Fiji Shark Defender and pledge to support policies and initiatives that protect sharks in Fiji and throughout the South Pacific. We'll let you know when you can take action!
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* Photo Credits and Notes:
Banner Photo: Spotted Porcelain Crab (Neopetrolisthes sp.), Myanmar
Photographer: Doug Richardson
Large Center Photo: Leopard Toadfish (Opsanus pardus), South Florida
Photographer: William Goodwin
Left Side Photo: Staff from CORAL and Pew with Fiji’s acting Prime Minister, Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, at the campaign launch event.
Photographer: Photo courtesy of Angelo Villagomez
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