{"id":2078,"date":"2009-11-17T12:03:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T16:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2009-11-17T12:03:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T16:03:11","slug":"marine-animals-write-their-own-atlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2009\/11\/17\/marine-animals-write-their-own-atlas\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine animals write their own atlas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mceTemp\">\n<\/p><dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 248px\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcs.org\/new-and-noteworthy\/new-atlas-of-the-patagonian-sea.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/multimedia\/pub\/web\/18396_web.jpg\" alt=\"Southern elephant seals were fitted with GPS collars to help provide data for the new atlas. Credit: Valeria Falabella, Wildlife Conservation Society\" width=\"238\" height=\"167\" class=\"img-fluid\"><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Southern elephant seals were fitted with GPS collars to help provide data for the new atlas. Credit: Valeria Falabella, Wildlife Conservation Society<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The marine animals of the Patagonian Sea have apparently been hard at work\u00a0 informing humanity about their home turf. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcs.org\/new-and-noteworthy\/new-atlas-of-the-patagonian-sea.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">An atlas of this sea<\/a>, off the southeastern coast of South America, has been published using data from satellite transmitters affixed to a host of Patagonian vertebrates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The atlas is published by the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Wildlife Conservation Society<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdlife.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BirdLife International.<\/a> Twenty-five scientists collected the data over 10 years, using the transmitters to track marine animals from the coasts of southern Brazil to southern Chile. For example, the studies found that elephant seals travel about 6,200 miles during an average season at sea, and that they travel an additional 6,200 when they dive to find food. \u00a0Other tracked species include five species of albatross, three species of petrel, four varieties of penguin, two fur seal species and the South American sea lion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The atlas is being produced in English and Spanish and will be used to help inform policy decisions in the region, including managing fisheries and charting transportation routes of oil tankers. The Patagonian Sea, which spans 1.1 million square miles, is becoming increasingly threatened by development and overfishing, says the Wildlife Conservation Society.<br>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Claudio Campagna, who runs the Wildlife Conservation Society\u2019s \u201cSea and Sky\u201d initiative, says the atlas is unique because it was \u201cessentially written by the wildlife that live in the Patagonian sea.\u201d\u00a0 Hopefully these new stakeholders will bring a fresh perspective to the table. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcs.org\/new-and-noteworthy\/new-atlas-of-the-patagonian-sea.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<br>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern elephant seals were fitted with GPS collars to help provide data for the new atlas. Credit: Valeria Falabella, Wildlife Conservation Society The marine animals of the Patagonian Sea have apparently been hard at work\u00a0 informing humanity about their home turf. An atlas of this sea, off the southeastern coast of South America, has been published using data from satellite&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,2,48],"tags":[390,391,392,393,394,395],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-ecology-in-policy","category-research","category-ecology-and-society","tag-atlas","tag-birdlife-international","tag-elephant-seals","tag-gps-transmitters","tag-patagonian-sea","tag-wildlife-conseervation-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}