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<div>The first episode gives an overview of the variety of the Caribbean's natural history, revealing the hidden wild side of the islands. Spotted and bottlenose dolphins cruise the shallow sand banks around the Bahamas. The mangrove forests of Barbuda's shallow lagoons provide ideal nest sites for the Caribbean's largest colony of frigatebirds. The birds are filmed jostling over the best locations and collecting floating sticks on the wing. The nearby islands of St Lucia, St Vincent and Dominica have a different character. The thickly forested slopes of their volcanic mountains harbour rare hummingbirds and parrots. Their fertile soils also attract people, but scenes of the Montserrat eruptions of recent years show the threat they live with. The deep waters off Dominica are breeding grounds for sperm whales, filmed engaging in tactile social behaviour at the surface. Caves are a feature of Cuba's limestone geology, and provide homes for millions of bats as well as Cuban boas and secretive hutias, the latter filmed for the first time in the wild. The southerly ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao), swept by dry trade winds, are virtual deserts. Every year, 20,000 Caribbean flamingos arrive to breed on their salt pans. The clear waters around Bonaire have the greatest variety of reef fish anywhere in the Caribbean. The final island to be featured is Trinidad, cut off from South America by rising sea levels 2,000 years ago. Its island fauna include many mainland species such as red howler monkeys, capuchins and scarlet ibis.[2]</div><div></div><div></div><div>Around six hurricane-strength storms strike the Caribbean between June and November each year. This episode examines their impact on people and wildlife. Hurricane winds generate destructive waves which can cause catastrophic damage to offshore reefs. Some corals are tough enough to withstand the buffeting, but other are ripped up. However, providing they come to rest in a suitable location, even broken fragments can regenerate. Storm surges cause widespread damage to coastal developments and beaches, and sea turtles are particularly vulnerable. Four-fifths of the green turtle hatchlings on Grand Cayman were lost when Hurricane Ivan struck in 2004. Low-lying islands can be completely inundated by storm surges. The brown anoles of the Bahamas may well drown, but their eggs can survive submersion for six hours. Coastal mangroves provide an important natural buffer against hurricanes. Further inland, the plants and animals of the tropical forests have evolved strategies to survive hurricanes. Tabonuco trees fuse their roots together to form a solid anchor, and hummingbirds move to unaffected parts of the forest. A single extreme event can be devastating for species with a restricted range. In 1989, Hurricane Hugo decimated the Puerto Rican parrot population, leaving only three breeding pairs. By contrast, green iguanas have used floating debris to colonise new islands, showing that resilience and adaptability are the key to survival. With climate change scientists predicting more frequent and intense hurricanes in future, the ability of the Caribbean wildlife to survive and recover from them will be severely tested.[4]</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Bbc Wild Caribbean 720p Tv</div><div></div><div>Download File: https://t.co/s5vvgQjOhv </div><div></div><div></div><div>Located only an hour by car from Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, the aptly named Monkeyland is a great place to get up close and personal with primates. Whether you make friends with monkeys in the wild or at a primate wonderland, mind your belongings: They are curious critters that will try to snatch up your goods!</div><div></div><div></div><div>In the Caribbean, there are as many amazing animals as there are beautiful beaches, and keeping these simple tips in mind will help you live the wild life as you dip your toes in the turquoise waters of the sea.</div><div></div><div></div><div>It pays to research Caribbean wildlife encounters and the details of animal adventure groups. If you want to get down in the water with whale sharks or dolphins, for example, you'll want to make sure you don't need a SCUBA certification before you jump onboard.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Informing yourself will also aid you in assuaging any fears you might have. Wild monkeys in Caribbean wildlife centers are vaccinated and tested regularly, so it helps to know where these centers are located. Stingrays, in spite of their name, don't usually sting humans, so there's little to fear when swimming with these underwater creatures.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Abstract:Caribbean sea urchins are marine invertebrates that have experienced a decline over the years. Studies on sea urchins have focused primarily on the microbiome of the coelomic fluid or the gut microbiota. In this study, the epibiota community associated with four wild Caribbean sea urchin species, Lytechinus variegatus, Echinometra lucunter, Tripneustes ventricosus, and Diadema antillarum, was characterized for the first time. Using 57 sea urchin animal samples, we evaluated the influence of animal species, trophic niches, and geographical location on the composition of the epibiotic microbiota. We found significant differences in the bacterial biota among species and trophic niches, but not among geographical locations. L. variegatus exhibited the highest alpha diversity with high dominance of Fusobacteria, Planctomycetes, and Cyanobacteria, whereas T. ventricosus and D. antillarum were dominated by Firmicutes. T. ventricosus inhabiting the seagrass biotope dominated by Thalassia testudinum meadows had mostly Endozoicomonas. In contrast, samples located in the reef (dominated by corals and other reef builders) had a higher abundance of Kistimonas and Photobacterium. Our findings confirm that the epibiotic microbiota is species-specific, but also niche-dependent, revealing the trophic networks emerging from the organic matter being recycled in the seagrass and reef niches. As echinoids are important grazers of benthic communities, their microbiota will likely influence ecosystem processes.Keywords: sea urchin; epibiotic microbiome; 16S rRNA; Caribbean; Puerto Rico</div><div></div><div></div><div>More than 1,200 Caribbean species are currently listed as globally threatened with extinction, including 49% of reptiles, 75% of amphibians, and nearly 100% of the surviving native land mammal species. Thousands more remain to be assessed. Yet the Caribbean receives far less international attention and support than other parts of the tropics. Enter Re:wild.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Re:wild and our partners aim to boost the natural resilience of functioning ecosystems to the adverse impacts of climate change, while simultaneously reducing the vulnerability of local communities to destruction. In fact, studies have found significantly less flood damage to homes and infrastructure in areas with intact coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass meadows and coastal wetlands than in areas where such natural ecosystems were destroyed or degraded.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Supporting extensive native habitat restoration, such as reforestation, that assists in the recovery of ecosystems that have been degraded or destroyed, but that can rebound and rewild with a little help.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Developing community-led and owned prevention strategies that take into account the societal and cultural drivers of wildlife crime, and implementing systems and technology to stop poachers before a crime is even committed.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Building a team of engaged global citizens by inspiring changes in daily habits and promoting individual and collective actions that drive real and lasting change. We harness our platforms and reach to generate international attention around imminent threats to wildlife and wildlands and the communities who rely on them, usually from extractive industries, to positively influence decision-makers and other stakeholders.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Wild Caribbean is a BBC documentary series narrated by Steve Toussaint, exploring the natural and cultural history of the Caribbean Islands and Sea. The series consists of four episodes which show the beautiful scenery of the region as well as continued destruction from hurricanes. The series begins with an overview of the variety of the Caribbean's natural history: Treasure Islands. Then it explores shallow waters around Caribbean Islands, focusing on coral reefs: Reefs and Wrecks. It looks at continued destruction from hurricanes: Hurricane Hell. Lastly, the series explores the natural history and the diversity of wildlife along the Caribbean shore of Central America: Secret Shores.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Episode 4 - Secret Shores</div><div></div><div> This episode explores the natural history and the diversity of wildlife along the Caribbean shore of Central America, from Panama Canal to Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Most famously, in a Blue Planet Live broadcast that went viral, she maintained her composure when a seagull swooped down and made off with one of the soft baby turtles whose halting progress to the sea she was attempting to chronicle. Before she felt the call of wildlife, she even briefly attempted to be a pop star.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The question of the natural distribution of G. hirsutum is not only crucial for understanding the biogeography of tetraploid cottons, and their evolution and diffusion under domestication, but also for the continuation of the domestication process. Further improvement of the crop requires both a better exploitation of the available germplasm and better genetic tools to manipulate important economic traits [32]. For example, studies on the effects of domestication on such essential traits as fiber development [37] and the corresponding genetic transformations, with an altered expression of about 25% of the genes at transcriptome level [38], depend on the comparison of well-defined and representative samples of wild and domesticated germplasm.</div><div></div><div></div><div>In northern South-America and the southern Caribbean (Figure 2C), TWC populations are scattered along the coasts of Venezuela, between the Gulf of Venezuela (Saco de Maracaibo; state of Falcón) and the North of the state of Sucre, and on the shores of many islands along these coasts: Curaçao, Bonaire, Isla de Piritú. We have found only ambiguous information for the Chacachacaré Island. Mentions of colonial cotton plantation cast doubt on the only report of wild cotton populations in this area by Stephens [9]. On the other hand, the surroundings of Chacachacaré village in the Island of Margarita offer excellent conditions for TWC populations, suggesting that the homonymy of these neighbor sites may have created confusion. To the West, the shores of Colombia only offer marginal conditions for TWC (Figure 1C), which explains why Stephens [9] was not successful in his search for wild cotton in this area. To the Northeast of Venezuela, there seems to be another gap in the natural distribution of G. hirsutum, as no TWC populations have been identified in Trinidad and Tobago or in the southern half of the Lesser Antilles (Figure 2C), which is consistent with the descriptions of Hutchinson [13], [55]. In the northern Lesser Antilles (Figure 2C), only three TWC populations have been described, in Guadeloupe [27], in Antigua and in Saint Kitts [9], [18], [19], and the model confirms favorable climatic conditions at these sites.</div><div></div><div> dd2b598166</div>