Asian Diver (English) - 2018-03-07

• Pub­lisher’s Note
• Er­ra­tum
• Edi­tor’s Note
• Whilst the de­bate sur­round­ing Os­lob’s feed­ing of whale sharks con­tin­ues, stud­ies have been con­ducted on how the tourist at­trac­tion has been sup­port­ing the liveli­hoods of fish­er­men, and per­haps that of the whale sharks too
• Us­ing chum to al­low divers to get up close with sharks will al­ways be con­tro­ver­sial, but do the ben­e­fits of the prac­tice out­weigh any pos­si­ble down­sides?
• Enough with the doom and gloom – things fi­nally ap­pear to be pick­ing up for sharks, but will this pos­i­tive trend be sus­tained?
• 8 APRIL 2018
• Af­ter re­ceiv­ing a tip-off re­gard­ing il­le­gal fish­ing boats in East Ti­mor, Sea Shep­herd de­parted on a mis­sion to hunt down the fleet
• Shark eco­tourism is more pop­u­lar now than ever be­fore, and the num­ber of des­ti­na­tions where it is pos­si­ble to swim with sharks in their nat­u­ral habi­tat con­tin­ues to grow. In the fol­low­ing in­fo­graphic, we list what we be­lieve are the 10 most charis­matic an
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• As shark fish­ing and finning per­sist, con­ser­va­tion­ists are push­ing for more to be done
• The Shark Nurs­ery
• Sav­ing the Sharks of the Shark Tri­an­gle
• The Great Whites of Isla Guadalupe
• Build­ing the Fu­ture
• Ed­u­cat­ing the Gen­er­a­tions of To­day and To­mor­row
• Mak­ing Shark Con­ser­va­tion Prof­itable
• A Week With­out Walls
• Sci­en­tists in the Philip­pines are us­ing tag­ging to un­der­stand the range and be­hav­iour of tiger sharks, but are the bound­aries of marine pro­tected ar­eas enough to pro­tect these near-threat­ened species?
• As shark tourism con­tin­ues to grow in pop­u­lar­ity each year, an in­creas­ing num­ber of dive op­er­a­tors are sell­ing shark div­ing trips, la­belling them­selves as “eco­tourism” ven­tures that prac­tice “sus­tain­able tourism”, but what do these terms re­ally mean?
• In the spirit of con­ser­va­tion, these dive cen­tres have over­hauled their oper­a­tions to be shark-friendly. Now, divers can get the same amaz­ing ex­pe­ri­ence with none of the guilt!
• Coral bleach­ing, brought on by global warm­ing, is an af­flic­tion wrought by many hands. It can only be rea­soned, then, that the so­lu­tion is in global co­op­er­a­tion
• Corals cover less than one quar­ter of one per­cent of the world’s oceans. They are re­gional an­i­mals, mostly found within trop­i­cal and sub­trop­i­cal wa­ters. Here, we give you a bird’s eye view of coral dis­tri­bu­tion, high­light­ing some of the species that can b
• ASEXUAL RE­PRO­DUC­TION
• COASTAL DE­VEL­OP­MENT
• RIS­ING OCEAN TEM­PER­A­TURE
• OCEAN ACID­I­FI­CA­TION
• 250 MIL­LION TONS
• OVER­FISH­ING AND DE­STRUC­TIVE FISH­ING
• TOURISM
• Glob­al­is­ing Coral Restora­tion
• Warm­ing seas, pol­lu­tion, and de­struc­tive fish­ing prac­tices are threat­en­ing the very ex­is­tence of Asia’s corals. We fol­low the work of just some of the peo­ple re­spond­ing to the emer­gency across our reefs
• The Coral Com­mu­ni­ca­tor
• Restor­ing the Last Strong­hold
• In 2010, four struc­tures made out of tyres and metal were sunk in the wa­ters of Green Is­land, Tai­wan. To­day, the struc­tures are cov­ered in soft coral and teem­ing with life. Bluefin trevally, bat­fish, and clown trig­ger­fish can be seen swarm­ing the ar­ti­fici
• Waka­tobi’s Coral King­dom
• Build­ing Pros­thetic Reefs
• Mon­i­tor­ing the Reefs
• Power Lies with the Peo­ple
• Re­defin­ing the Dive
• Pro­tect­ing the Coral Tri­an­gle

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