"The researchers outlined guidelines for governments to provide long-distance larval drifters, like #urchins and #lobsters, as well as #MigratorSpecies, like #turtles and #sharks, with protected stopovers along coastal corridors. "
"The turbines’ seabed foundations, bolstered by rock piles around the masts, function as artificial #reefs upon which flora and #crustacea thrive, which then are consumed by #fish, #porpoises, and #seals.
Marine scientists have found that these #RenewableEnergy parks can serve as sprawling #MarineSanctuaries, some of them as vast as 80 square kilometers (31 square miles) in size."
Mexican Navy hopes to expand net-snagging hooks to protect endangered vaquita porpoises
Mexico’s Navy said Wednesday it is planning to expand the area where it sinks concrete blocks topped with metal hooks to snag gill nets that are killing vaquita marina porpoises.