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      <description>Admiral Ahmed Khaled, the commander of the Egyptian Navy Fleet in the Red Sea over the past years will be moving on to a new post. Upon his departure the HEPCA team would like to thank him and commend him for his valiant efforts in the field of conservation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>

      <link>http://hepca.com/media/news/2012/01/we-salute-you-admiral/189</link>

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      <title>We Salute You, Admiral!</title>

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      <description>When we talk about our scientific achievements and findings most people wonder if this is useful at all for them in their daily lives. Of course it is! But science is not always easy to be simplified.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>

      <link>http://hepca.com/media/news/2012/01/bringing-science-to-your-door-step/190</link>

      <pubDateParsed>2012-02-23T09:31:27.83863Z</pubDateParsed>

      <title>Bringing science to your door step </title>

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      <description>Watching and swimming with dolphins in their natural habitat has become very popular in the Hurghada area these last few years. The increase of these activities, in particular when unregulated, is highly likely to represent a serious threat to the wild dolphin populations inhabiting this region.</description>

      <link>http://hepca.com/media/news/2012/01/egyptian-dolphin-sanctuaries-on-the-rise/191</link>

      <pubDateParsed>2012-02-23T09:31:27.83863Z</pubDateParsed>

      <title>Egyptian Dolphin Sanctuaries on the Rise</title>

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      <description>New year   new boat; but same great old team. The members of our mooring team have been with us for around seven years now and every day we are thankful to have them. Maintaining the largest mooring buoy system in the world is not an easy job to do, but a job that they do with endless passion and contribution for the sake of Red Sea conservation</description>

      <link>http://hepca.com/media/news/2012/01/mooring-update-january/192</link>

      <pubDateParsed>2012-02-23T09:31:27.83863Z</pubDateParsed>

      <title>Mooring Update - January</title>

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      <description>Besides the  Pick Albatros  hotel chain, who claimed that their displayed marine life was just plastic, an excuse that nobody really believed, we also received photos from  Sunrise Royal Makadi Resort  showing napoleon fish as well as a baby shark on their New Year s buffet. Until now we are waiting for a statement from the hotel management.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>

      <link>http://hepca.com/media/news/2012/01/protected-species-served-on-dinner-buffets/193</link>

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      <title>Protected species served on dinner buffets</title>

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      <description>On the 10th of January HEPCA received a phone call about a dead dolphin found on a beach north of El Gouna; only a few days after (17th of January) a second call: another dead dolphin has been spotted floating in the narrow channel between El Gouna and the large reef just in front.</description>

      <link>http://hepca.com/media/news/2012/01/two-dead-dolphins-in-el-gouna/194</link>

      <pubDateParsed>2012-02-23T09:31:27.83863Z</pubDateParsed>

      <title>Two Dead Dolphins in El Gouna</title>

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      <description>After the first year HEPCA decided to launch more activities on marine turtles, involve users in all the aspects of data collection and raise the number of awareness activities. Following below is a list of activities planned for this year which implementation will depend mostly on funding available.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>

      <link>http://hepca.com/media/news/2012/01/turtle-report-2011/188</link>

      <pubDateParsed>2012-02-23T09:31:27.83863Z</pubDateParsed>

      <title>What s happening for Egyptian Red Sea turtles in 2012?</title>

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      <description>Royal Evolution played an essential role in catching the four Yemeni fishing boats that were fishing and finning sharks in the Egyptian Red Sea in the summer of 2010. After spotting longline markers in the morning of the 7th of June 2010 the crew and guests on board recovered 11km of longlines and managed to release a variety of sharks, which</description>

      <link>http://hepca.com/media/news/2012/01/royal-evolution/187</link>

      <pubDateParsed>2012-02-23T09:31:27.83863Z</pubDateParsed>

      <title>SharkGUARDIAN of the Year 2012: Royal Evolution</title>

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      <description>The depletion of fish stocks, one of the major global and local marine conservation issues, has so far been poorly addressed in the Red Sea region. Over the last two decades the fishing effort in the Red Sea has increased dramatically with severe impacts upon the fish stock and potentially on the entire marine ecosystem as well as on the entire Red Sea community.</description>

      <link>http://hepca.com/media/news/2012/01/sustainable-seafood-menu/186</link>

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      <title>Sustainable Seafood Menu</title>

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      <description>Over the last couple of weeks we have received several concerned emails from enthusiastic divers about the  disappearance of sharks  from the Egyptian Red Sea, a scenario they reckoned the obvious result of months of illegal fishing operations possibly happened throughout the year, taking advantage of the post-revolution instability. </description>

      <link>http://hepca.com/media/news/2012/01/dive-boat-science/185</link>

      <pubDateParsed>2012-02-23T09:31:27.83863Z</pubDateParsed>

      <title>Dive Boat Science</title>

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      <description>HEPCA has received concerned reports from several visitors of more than one the of the Albatros Hotels chain regarding what can only be described as a heinous crime by the hotel management, that does not only demonstrate their blatant lack of concern over the Red Sea s natural resources, but clearly displays a complete ignorance of what sustains their own industry and future</description>

      <link>http://hepca.com/media/news/2012/01/corpses-for-dinner/184</link>

      <pubDateParsed>2012-02-23T09:31:27.83863Z</pubDateParsed>

      <title>Corpses for Dinner</title>

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      <description>2011 has witnessed unprecedented growth in HEPCA, most remarkably in the field of solid waste management. On the 10th of February HEPCA undertook sole responsibility for the collection of solid waste in Hurghada, a city with a population of more than 300,000 people </description>

      <link>http://hepca.com/media/news/2012/01/hepca-2011-review---hurghada-solid-waste-management/177</link>

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      <title>HEPCA 2011 Review - Hurghada Solid Waste Management</title>

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      <description>Almost 20 years ago the diving and snorkelling industry of the Red Sea expanded to an extent that anchoring damage on reefs became a very visible and serious threat to the marine ecosystem. For this reason HEPCA was founded in order to establish a mooring system to protect marine life.</description>

      <link>http://hepca.com/media/news/2012/01/hepca-2011-review---mooring-project/178</link>

      <pubDateParsed>2012-02-23T09:31:27.83863Z</pubDateParsed>

      <title>HEPCA 2011 Review - Mooring Project</title>

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      <description>In February 2011, HEPCA launched the first Red Sea Turtle Project in order to increase scientific knowledge of marine turtles and improve their conservation.</description>

      <link>http://hepca.com/media/news/2012/01/hepca-2011-review---a-turtle-tastic-year/179</link>

      <pubDateParsed>2012-02-23T09:31:27.83863Z</pubDateParsed>

      <title>HEPCA 2011 Review - A Turtle-Tastic Year</title>

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      <description>The Red Sea Dolphin Project, the first survey completely dedicated to study abundance, distribution and habitat use of cetaceans in the southern waters of the Egyptian Red Sea, concludes its second year of research at sea. The following is a brief summary of the accomplishments of 2011</description>

      <link>http://hepca.com/media/news/2012/01/hepca-2011-review---red-sea-dolphin-project/180</link>

      <pubDateParsed>2012-02-23T09:31:27.83863Z</pubDateParsed>

      <title>HEPCA 2011 Review - Red Sea Dolphin Project</title>

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      <description>The Red Sea is well-known for its ecological and economic importance to Egypt. The fragile ecosystems of coral reefs, mangroves, and sea grass beds make the Red Sea very sensitive to any changes, even small ones. It also has a large number of endemic, rare and endangered species such as the dugong and the green turtle.</description>

      <link>http://hepca.com/media/news/2012/01/hepca-2011-review---coastal-survey/181</link>

      <pubDateParsed>2012-02-23T09:31:27.83863Z</pubDateParsed>

      <title>HEPCA 2011 Review - Coastal Survey</title>

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      <description>The monitoring of Samadai, with the six surveys conducted this year, is now a well-oiled programme, robust enough to support modifications that we would like to introduce with the new year, supported by the Rufford Small Grant for Conservation recently awarded to the project.</description>

      <link>http://hepca.com/media/news/2012/01/hepca-2011-review---samadai-monitoring/182</link>

      <pubDateParsed>2012-02-23T09:31:27.83863Z</pubDateParsed>

      <title>HEPCA 2011 Review - Samadai Monitoring</title>

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      <description>In 2011, the cleanliness of cities along the Red Sea changed a lot. This is not only due to HEPCA undertaking solid waste management of the southern Egyptian Red Sea and Hurghada, but also thanks to the many volunteers that helped out in various community cleanups throughout this past year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>

      <link>http://hepca.com/media/news/2012/01/hepca-2011-review---a-year-of-cleanups/183</link>

      <pubDateParsed>2012-02-23T09:31:27.83863Z</pubDateParsed>

      <title>HEPCA 2011 Review - A Year of Cleanups</title>

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      <description>The Red Sea Governor s Decree 379/2011 has established the south western area of Fanous Reef as a  safe zone  where all vessels, large and small, are banned from entering at this sensitive ecological hotspot.</description>

      <link>http://hepca.com/media/news/2011/12/dolphin-sanctuary-declared-in-hurghada/176</link>

      <pubDateParsed>2012-02-23T09:31:27.83863Z</pubDateParsed>

      <title>Dolphin Sanctuary Declared in Hurghada!</title>

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      <description>In ecology, it is fundamental to be able to identify individuals within a population as this provides realistic estimates of the population size, growth rates and also migration patterns. </description>

      <link>http://hepca.com/media/news/2011/12/smiling-turtles- -hepca-red-sea-turtle-catalogue/175</link>

      <pubDateParsed>2012-02-23T09:31:27.83863Z</pubDateParsed>

      <title>Smiling turtles   HEPCA Red Sea Turtle Catalogue</title>

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