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Sulu-Sulawesi Seas:
Resources and Links
Related Links | National Geographic Resources |
Recommended by World Wildlife Fund
AT NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC.COM
The Crittercam Chronicles
www.nationalgeographic.com/crittercam/
How do you attach a camera to a shark? (Very carefully is only part of the answer.) Find out how the revolutionary Crittercam was developed and follow it into hidden realms.
Shark Surfari
www.nationalgeographic.com/sharks/
Get a kid’s-eye view of great white sharks. Fins surround you, but the only teeth on our cyber sharks are quiz questions that challenge your knowledge—and prejudices.
World Magazine Story (for Kids): Turtles in Trouble
www.nationalgeographic.com/world/9911/
turtle/index.html
Turtles around the world are threatened. Read how some researchers are trying to help.
Virtual World: Great Barrier Reef
www.nationalgeographic.com/earthpulse/reef/
South of the Sulu/Sulawesi region, off the coast of Australia lies the world’s largest reef.
AT WORLDWILDLIFE.ORG
Creating a Sea of Change: Responsible Fishing
www.panda.org/resources/publications/water/
fisheries_99/creating.html
Read about World Wildlife Fund’s programs to develop responsible fishing practices.
Green Sea Turtle Fact Sheet
www.panda.org/resources/publications/species/
underthreat/green-turtle.htm
Get conservation facts and other resources for this largest of the hard-shelled sea turtles.
Hawksbill Sea Turtle Fact Sheet
www.panda.org/resources/publications/species/
cites/fs_hbturtl.html
What doesa hawksbill turtle eat? The answer, and more, at this WWF site.
Sulu-Sulawesi Seas Ecoregion Fact Sheet
www.worldwildlife.org/global200/spacessection.cfm?
sectionid=115&newspaperid=20&contentid=165
Get the basics on this dynamic region.
World Wildlife Fund-Philippines
www.wwf-phil.org.ph
Visit the Web site for the Philippines office of the World Wildlife Foundation—complete with project updates, virtual tours, downloadable screen savers, and more.
World Wildlife Fund’s Endangered Seas
www.worldwildlife.org/oceans/oceans.cfm?
sectionid=109&newspaperid=19
Learn how you can help protect the world’s waters.
ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB
Earth Report: Sulu-Sulawesi
www.oneworld.net/tve/earthreport/
archive/20Aug2000.html
Explore the economic and environmental detriments of overfishing in this report from the Television Trust for the Environment (TVE).
The Reef Check Foundation
www.reefcheck.org
This organization is dedicated to global coral reef education, monitoring, and management.
| Map | “Coral World.” 2000. |
| Book | Dolphins. 2000. (In our store) |
| Book | Wild Ocean. 1999. (In our store) |
| Book | Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises. 1995. |
| Video | Dolphins: The Wild Side. 1998. (In our store) |
Recommended by World Wildlife Fund
| Book | Davidson, Osha Gray. The Enchanted Braid: Coming to Terms with Nature on the Coral Reef. John Wiley & Sons, 1998. |
| Book | Humann, Paul, and Ned Deloach, eds. The Reef Set (includes Reef Fish, Reef Creature and Reef Coral). New World Publications, 1994. |
| Book | Sapp, Jan. What Is Natural? Coral Reef Crisis. Oxford University Press, 1999. |
Photograph of
bumphead parrotfish
by David Doubilet
