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Click to Join Vida Marina!
By joining Vida Marina with a membership, you are supporting our work to create a protected marine sanctuary in one of the most biologically diverse ocean eco systems on earth. No where else in the world do humpback whales come from two different hemispheres to have their babies and breed. Groups of hundreds, and even thousands of dolphins live in the area, but yet commercial fishing is killing both the animals and their habitat. Help us Help Them and truly show your support for the dolphins, whales and other marine life!
Click to visit the Dolphins, Whales and Rainforest of Costa Rica!
Now this truly is a win-win situation. Come visit us in Drake Bay, Costa Rica and go on our famous dolphin and whale watching research tours, which support our foundation's research work. Costa Rica's crown jewel rainforest is an added bonus. No where else on earth will you find this incredible combination of wildlife both on land and at sea. Can you believe monkeys, toucans, macaws, dolphins and whales all in one place? Believe it, live it, and be a part of helping to create our protected marine sanctuary while enjoying the eco adventure vacation of a lifetime!
Help to protect the dolphins and whales of Costa Rica by purchasing our photos and other fun photo products like keychains and coffee mugs through Kodakgallery Marketplace. All profits go to the Vida Marina Foundation.
Click to sign Our Online Petition
Add your name to the other caring individuals who support our work to create a protected marine area here. Not only do dolphins and whales call this area home, but several species of sea turtles, manta rays, sea lions, corals and fish live here too. They all need your support to protect them.
..Change your Eating Habits..
Did you know that for every gallon of shrimp harvested, five to ten gallons of other sea life has been killed as incidental by-catch? Not only that, shrimp boats scrape the ocean floor, killing everything in their path, plant and animal alike. It is the same as clear cutting the rainforest, except it is the ocean floor! Think about that before you order your next shrimp cocktail. Shrimp comes at a very high cost to the ocean and its inhabitants.
Did you know that dolphin safe tuna only means that LESS dolphins are killed? And if they are not killed, they are stressed out from being chased and netted up to three times a day! It is time to stop supporting this extremely deadly -to-dolphins practice. Surely you can find something else to eat besides canned tuna!
Click for Vida Marina's Deep Blue Dolphin and Whale Camps
A great opportunity to learn about dolphins and whales and other marine life in beautiful Drake Bay, Costa Rica. We can do specialty courses for your group. Contact us for more information.
Read the Story of Spirit, the baby humpback whale you see jumping on this site.
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When most people think of Costa Rica, they think of the rainforest, but what is not widely known is that Costa Rica enjoys one of the most biologically diverse ocean ecosystems in the world. This is mainly because the heart of a vast habitat known as the Costa Rican Thermal Convection Dome (named for its proximity to this country) lies here. Shallow warm waters lie on top of low-oxygen cold water, creating the perfect ecosystem for a vast variety of marine life.
Whales, dolphins, tuna, marlin, manta rays, sea turtles, sailfish and more, congregate in this area taking advantage of this year-round thermal dome of ecologically rich waters. Humpback Whales visit us from two separate hemispheres, giving us the longest humpback whale season in the world. For this reason alone, the area should be protected. However, commercial fishing in the area is rampant, including long lining, trolling for shrimp and large scale tuna fishing.
A Baby Humpback Whale with a fishing line embedded in his body.
This is no way to treat an endangered species!
Through our research and education programs, Vida Marina Foundation is working to make the protected marine sanctuary a reality.
We been collecting data, taking ID photos and filming dolphins and whales since 1999, a solid data base of research information which enables us to better understand the great variety of species in the area, their behaviors, and the threats that exist to them.
Our Flying Inflatable Boat (a dingy that flies!)
enables us to cover a lot of area, observe commercial fishing boats,
and get a special view of the dolphins
and whales
Projects
Vida Marina Foundation has many ongoing projects. These include creating the protected marine sanctuary, identification of individuals, distribution and usage maps, local and outreach marine education, and much more!
Vida Marina Staff at the 2007 Earth Day Event
Local students learning about Dolphins and Whales
The cumulative goals of our projects
are:
• Promote and support with scientific research the creation
of marine sanctuaries or reserves in the area.
• To support,
promote and carry out scientific studies and submit scientific publications.
• To carry out educational
programs and projects that contribute environmental
awareness about marine resources, both locally and otherwise.
• To create a web of information,
documentation and reference on local marine life with educational and scientific
purposes.
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To stimulate and support other organizations and institutions that may share our
goals.
• Promote regulated eco-tourism specially oriented towards cetaceans
watching in their natural habitats.
• To support the creation of
environmental and protective laws towards marine eco-systems and its
resources.
• Carry out environmental campaigns: waste reduction in homes
and hotels, beach cleaning, recycling etc.
• Support the certification of
tour operators and tour guides involved in Whale and Dolphin watching,
• To better
understand the relationship between humans and whales and dolphins, and why we
are so curious and attracted to each other
• Create video documentaries on individual
species and the making of the marine sanctuary
Our Proposed Marine Protected Area
off the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica
Please help us to protect this incredible area, known by National Geographic as the most biologically intense place on earth. There is no place like it in the world, and your support is needed to protect and conserve this biological hot spot.
Vida Marina's Super Team has their hands full removing hooks and lines
from the mouths of sea turtles and rescuing dolphins who have
beached themselves for whatever reason.
Vida Marina recently had great success with stopping a large scale tuna farm that was planned in the Golfo Dulce on the Osa Peninsula. The tuna farm company tried to push through the project without consulting the local people that it would affect, and without the proper environmental studies. Tuna farms such as these are very destructive to the area around them, and this company wanted to do it in a mostly enclosed Fjord, one of only three like it in the world! There is now a court order haulting the project until further environmental studies are done.
Vida Marina is also on President Arias' Peace with Nature Campaign Committee, giving us direct access to the President of Costa Rica and other governmental officials. We have been very successful in bringing Costa Rica's marine issues to the forefront and are very proud of our work in this area.
RESULTS OF COMMERCIAL FISHING
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And now, please enjoy a slide show of the beautiful dolphins and whales of Drake Bay, Costa Rica. All photos were taken by Vida Marina President, Sierra. We have also included some photos of the other animals found here in Drake Bay, both on land and at sea!
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10 of 562MoreThere is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves,
that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet.
~Brooke Medicine Eagle~
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The first of the 50 Funeral Motorcades for Animals in the 40-states-in-7-months CARE-7 tour - Seattle - with 20 cars + AM's motorcycle, was a success!
Peter Keller of the Northwest Animal Rights Coalition (NARN) giving his moving eulogy for the sea lions killed by fishermen - covered by Q13-TV.
Anthony Marr humbly thanking the participants after his own speech on the spritual aspect of the funeral for animals, sea lion ecology and the Global Anti-Hunting Coaltiion (GAHC).
How AM got soaked and frozen on his bike - 45F, 70 mph wind-chill. :)
To see the full [2010-04-01 AM's CARE-7 tour blog #2], and to stay tuned for future touring blogs, go to AM's blogsite:
www.HomoSapiensSaveYourEarth.blogspot.com
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www.myspace.com/AnthonyMarr
www.facebook.com/Anthony.Marr.001
www.HOPE-CARE.
What's up?
It's been a while since I've done much here on myspace, and might have been a LONG time since I've stopped by your page. (I might've left you a birthday comment ages ago). Hopefully all has been well with you!
Anyway, I not only wanted to stop by to say what's up, but also because I need your help. I'm part of a video competition encouraging "free enterprise", and I need as many views as I can get. So if you don't mind, please do me a favor and click the play button in the video below (which is only under 3 minutes)...
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On the eve of his CARE-7 tour, Anthony Marr has a parting shot for Canadian PM Stephen Harper:
Global warming has precipitated ice-free conditions in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence for the first time ever...
... drowning thousands of baby Harp seals, and dooming thousands others stranded on dry land.
And yet, Canada has raised the quota for this year's seal "hunt" up to 388,000. I ask you, Mr. Harper, where is your reason? And, closer to your soul, where is your compassion? Please read this article, and do something according to your conscience, assuming that power hasn't already corrupted the hell out of it.
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By Mail Foreign Service
25th March 2010
To read the full article go to Anthony Marr's blogsite:
www.HomoSapiensSaveYourEarth.blogspot.com
Thank you Lori Anderson!...
... and my other dear friends in Vancouver, for the heart-warming send-off demo-party on my 40-states-in-7-months CARE-7 tour with Anthony Damiano.
I want all to know that although the name of our organization is the Global Anti-Hunting Coalition,
GAHC stands resolutely against any form of cruelty, period.
Today's send off demo is for all fur-bearing animals.
Anthony Marr, Founder and President
Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)
Global Anti-Hunting Coalition (GAHC)
Anthony-Marr@HOPE-CARE.org
www.HOPE-CARE.org
www.ARConference.org
www.MySpace.com/AnthonyMarr
www.YouTube.com/AnthonyMarr
www.myspace.com/Anti-Hunting_Coalition
www.facebook.com/Anthony.Marr.001
www.facebook.com/Anthony-Hunting_Coalition
www.HomoSapiensSaveYourEarth.blogspot.com
Of 10 disaster movies, 6 are about asteroid strikes, 3 about alien invasions, 1about geological upheavals, and none is about any human cause...
... much less all SIX DEADLY PLANETARY DISEASES, any one of which could wipe humans off the face of the Earth. All six simultaneously could doom species by the millions.
1. Planetary Fever – unnatural global warming, caused by artificial forces
2. Planetary AIDS – damage to the ozone shield, Earth's auto-immune system
3. Planetary Cancer – a part of her body turning malignant – the human species
4. Planetary Wasting Disease – loss of biomass & biodiversity, via deforestation & overhunting
5. Planetary Internal Poisoning – no aliens dumped toxic waste on to the Earth
6. Planetary Suicidal Tendencies – WW3 could mean planetary suicide
The planetary physicians will seek the cures as if, no, because, their lives depend on it, since they are themselves integral parts of the planet. It is do or die.
Anthony Marr
Anthony Marr and Anthony Damiano can't stay healthy for long if all they eat is restaurant food on their 39-states-in-7-months CARE-7 road tour.
AM's friends offered a great solution in his previous six tours, by hosting vegan potlucks in his honor when he arrives in their cities.
In turn, he repaid body-food with soul-food by giving dynamite speeches. All present considered this more than a fair exchange.
Anthony Marr, regularly giving over 10 different speeches at the great AR Conference, is a sought after speaker who has spoken to upwards of 250,000 people on 3 continents in his 16 years of full-time activism, and he has received many return invitations. A quarter million people can't all be wrong!
If you don't see your city in the itinerary (see www.myspace.com/AnthonyMarr), please contact either Anthony and they will add it in. They look forward to breaking bread with you.
Anthony Marr, Founder and President
Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)
Global Anti-Hunting Coalition (GAHC)
Anthony-Marr@HOPE-CARE.org
www.HOPE-CARE.org
www.MySpace.com/AnthonyMarr
www.YouTube.com/AnthonyMarr
www.myspace.com/Anti-Hunting_Coalition
www.HomoSapiensSaveYourEarth.blogspot.com
www.ARConference.org
www.AnimalVoices.org
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216-386-7362 as of April 1
At the 2009 AR Conference, one of Anthony Marr's speeches was on
Individual Activism
Someone asked Anthony to put his points in writing. Here are 7 points he made today:
1. The Power of One: One activist standing in the rain for 10 days is more powerful than 100 activists holding a one-hour protest in the sun.
2. Where you can lead: If you have no leadership quality, you would not be an activist. There is one thing among the millions that people can do in which you are the best. What is it?
3. Go where no one has gone before: Do what no one has done before. Media will cover you if you do something that has never been done there before, bearing in mind that something new anywhere is new only once.
4. Go where angels fear to tread: Do what no one dares to do - physically and spiritually. You need not be an outlaw to be brave. You can work within the law to change the law. Treat restrictions as challenges to your ingenuity.
5. Choose your enemy with compassion: Do it for justice, not for vengeance, and certainly not out of cruelty on our part.
6. Live for your cause. Be its instrument on Earth: You will live on in the difference that you will have made.
7. Save the Earth for her own sake, and our children and all creatures, for their own sake: An individual human has the potential to be an individual planet-saver.
"The rest is all up to you."
See Anthony Marr's speech in video:
AR2009-07-17 Anthony Marr - Individual Activism
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The Winter Olympics is over. Many records were set, and all were celebrated, except one, which should be dreaded. Vancouver had the warmest and driest winter on record, as did the rest of Canada. In fact, the Canadian winter, already dubbed "the winter that wasn't", was warmer by an average of 4C/6.5F above normal, and in the far north, more than +7C/11F. So, while Vancouver had to truck in snow for the skiing events, Newfoundland had no sea ice at all for the first time in history, causing thousands of baby Harp seals to be drowned at birth.
"It's beyond shocking," said David Phillips, a senior climatologist with Environment Canada. "Records have been shattered from coast to coast to coast. I've seen nothing like it in my 40 years of weather watching. It's like winter was canceled in this country." This may have set the stage for potentially "horrific" water shortages, insect infestations and wildfires this summer...
[To read the whole blog go to: www.HomoSapiensSaveYourEarth.blogspot.com
and watch this MUST SEE video]
M-BOMB: Doomsday Machine 2012 - by Anthony Marr
"We know where you will be on your tour at any time. We have months to track you down and ambush you. We have an arrow with Anthony Marr's name written on the shaft."
Anthony Marr challenges hunters to televised debates across the nation:
Anthony Marr, Founder and President
Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)
Global Anti-Hunting Coalition (GAHC)
Anthony-Marr@HOPE-CARE.org
www.HOPE-CARE.org
www.MySpace.com/AnthonyMarr
www.YouTube.com/AnthonyMarr
www.myspace.com/Anti-Hunting_Coalition
www.HomoSapiensSaveYourEarth.blogspot.com
www.ARConference.org