Joanna Alfaro Shigueto will be speaking at the Wildlife Conservation Network Expo in San Francisco on October 11th, 2014. Marine conservationists often view fisheries as an enemy of sorts, vacuuming ...

A study from the University of Washington is revealing a threat to Pacific seabirds that is already in motion and may have heartbreaking consequences. Called, "marine heatwaves," the threat to birds ...

Marine birds face a number of threats, and the region is already witnessing the ways that climate change exacerbates their plight. It’s time to reverse the course of dwindling marine life in Puget ...

Most migratory birds and marine species have little protection from threats like overfishing because of poor coordination and management of conservation efforts around the world, according to two ...

Accidental by-catch –- which affects around 5,000 birds stuck in longlines every year -- is the most severe effect on marine birds by the fishing activity in the Mediterranean. The exploitation of ...

"We find a dramatic delayed effect," she said. "A warmer ocean, and certainly a suddenly warmer ocean as happens during an El Niño or a marine heat wave, will result in the death of hundreds of ...

Marine bird populations off Washington state and British Columbia have seen significant declines since the late 1970s, according to a Western Washington University study. The four-year study included ...

ANACORTES — The bird-counters stood in the windy bow chattering into headsets and scanning the Strait of Juan de Fuca with binoculars. “Scoters,” Sherman Anderson said. “Three of them. At 11 o’clock.

Isla Pescadores, Peru – Peppered with fishing boats and thousands of hungry marine birds, from afar Peru’s protected Isla Pescadores – Spanish for Fishermen’s Island – looks much as it always has. But ...

University of Hawaii intern Emily Greene, left, animal care coordinator Heidi Nikolai, Dr. Sophie Whoriskey, back, volunteer John Dahl and animal care assistant Stefanie Cooke take eye swabs of a ...