News release: “The 2,000-strong community of Census of Marine Life scientists from 82 nations today announced astonishing examples of recent new finds from the worlds ocean depths. As more than 700 delegates gather for the World Conference on Marine Biodiversity (Valencia, Spain Nov. 11-15), organized by the Censuss European affiliate program on Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning, the report details major progress towards the first ever marine life census, for release in October, 2010.”
Full Highlights Report: “Eight years into a ten-year initiative to produce the first comprehensive assessment of life in the global ocean, the Census of Marine Life has much to report. The last two years have brought many highlights as Census participants stayed the course toward discovering diversity, charting distribution, and assessing abundance of marine life throughout the worlds seas. Although inquiring waders, swimmers, fishers, and sailors have ventured into the ocean for millennia, an estimated 95 percent of the global ocean remains unexplored…During the first eight years of discovery, Census investigators have found more than 5,300 likely new species, of which at least 110 have gone through the rigorous process needed to award the title of truly new.
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