by Matt Pedersen AZ | Mar 4, 2021 | Freshwater, Marine, News & Notes
Red Arowana or Asian arowana (Scleropages formosus) is one of the world’s most expensive cultivated ornamental fishes, and is an endangered species. Image copyright Japan’ Fireworks/Shutterstock. New federal legislation before Congress would change the US...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | May 29, 2019 | Freshwater, News & Notes
via the Center for Biological Diversity Critically Endangered Spring Pygmy Sunfish Gains 1,330 Acres, Six Stream Miles of Protected Habitat Tiny Fish Threatened by Urbanization, Agriculture, Pollution May 29, 2019 – HUNTSVILLE, Ala.— Following a lawsuit filed by the...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 23, 2016 | Freshwater, Marine, News & Notes
CITES CoP17, Johannesburg, South Africa, starts tomorrow. This is the 17th Conference of Parties meeting to be held, a meeting which has been held roughly every 2-3 years since the first CoP in 1976. CoP meetings are the time when changes to CITES listings for species...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Dec 8, 2014 | Freshwater, News & Notes
via PressReleasePoint for US Dept. of Justice San Jose Man Charged with Violating the Endangered Species Act December 8th, 2014 – SAN JOSE – Ryan Lopez Bernardez was arraigned today on charges that he violated the Endangered Species Act by transporting...
by Matt Pedersen AZ | Sep 5, 2014 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
It’s been a busy few weeks at Reef To Rainforest headquarters in Vermont; the marine aquarium trade is facing a growing threat to its existence as we know it as a result of new Endangered Species Act (ESA) rulings listing 20 Corals as Threatened under the ESA....
