Coalition for Silent Oceans Even the most peaceful of water worlds has a dark side we cannot ignore: the harming of the oceanic environment through underwater noise pollution. The Liquid Sound team campaigns against the acoustic pollution of the oceans through military sonar. An appeal started among guests of the Toskana Therme in 2003 resulted in thousands of signatures for the "European Coalition for Silent Oceans". A high-profile event at the Berlin Liquidrom and Tempodrom held on the 11th June 2003 brought "Whale Song or Noise Attack" to the attention of the international public and the campaign has continued ever since, with some degree of success. Actual information

The Migration Research Foundation (MRF) is an incorporated nonprofit organization in Canada (#89916 3505 RR0001) and the United States, committed to monitoring the distribution and movements of wildlife for conservation research purposes.

Adaptive and science-based management is widely accepted as necessary to safeguard wildlife and their habitats into the future. However, many of the decisions in this field are still based on unsupported ideas that lack validation with real data and which do not make their analysis available for a public review. Decisions based on soft foundations can be harmful to wildlife, habitat and the survival of both. I suggest a new wildlife management approach founded on scientific databases that has become possible, if not imperative, with improved technology and increasing access to freely available data over the Word Wide Web (WWW). This approach is partly a consequence of the effective implementation of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act and the National Spatial Data Infrastructure. In order to justify management decisions relating to wildlife, habitat, and conservation, the listing, use, and full investigation of all available and relevant databases needs to be implemented, voluntarily or legally, as a prerequisite. Second, similar to International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Standards, each major wildlife management decision needs to add a standard management documentation system as a backup that clearly records what data and research were or were not available at that time and what the recommended research still needs to address in order to complete the data situation and to decrease uncertainty. JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT 69(2):466–472; 2005