Ocean News

We know the critical places where our ocean’s giants spend their time – now, we need to protect them. More than 75% of the most important places where the ocean’s biggest animals are migrating, or feeding, breeding, and resting, overlap with serious threats to their survival.

The Save Our Seas Foundation presents Sharks in the City, a week of awe, fun, and awareness dedicated to bringing sharks – their importance, and their plight – to the Swiss lake’s shores.

Sharks and rays are in dire need of conservation action. More than a third of their species are at risk of extinction, as their slow population growth rates make them highly susceptible to fishing pressure. Indeed, overfishing is their primary extinction threat. Now, a recent study has created the shark…

It’s no secret that our world needs urgent change. And in our 2025 project leader cohort, we’re inspired to see people innovate and create positive change in their communities and countries and across the conservation sector. With 70 projects active in 39 different countries and led by 73 project leaders,…

Never before has there been such urgency that underscores the work that we do to secure the sustainability of livelihoods around the earth’s oceans. The challenges are many and multiplying, but as Dr Jane Goodall says, ‘I do have reasons for hope: our clever brains, the resilience of nature, the…

We are thrilled to introduce a new generation of future-focused scientists, conservationists and educators around our planet. The 21 recipients of our Small Grants for this year are tackling complex questions about our changing world, and it’s their determination to shape the sustainability of our shared future that has us…

The Save Our Seas Foundation sponsors the Marine Conservation Photographer category in the Underwater Photography of the Year competition. The category’s purpose is to highlight conservation challenges and solutions and connect them to a wide audience.

Overfishing is driving sharks to the edge of existence. Recent scientific assessments have shown that more than one-third of sharks, rays and chimaeras are threatened with extinction from a host of threats, including habitat loss and degradation, deep-sea mining and pollution. But by far the greatest concern lies with the…

Sharks, rays and chimaeras are overfished and heading for extinction. More than 300 scientists have published 20 years of data in a landmark global report that details the biology, fisheries, trade, conservation efforts and policy reforms for these marine animals across 158 countries and jurisdictions. It’s a global wake-up call:…

By developing and adapting a microscopy-based method from avian science, Seychelles-born PhD student Alessia Lavigne is furthering our understanding of reproductive failure in the nation’s turtle and tortoise populations.   Extinction threatens more than half of the world’s turtles and tortoises. Understanding why some eggs fail to hatch is a…

Ghana’s understudied artisanal fisheries now pose a significant threat to sharks and rays, which they catch in great numbers using drift and bottom-set gillnets. This wasn’t always the case, however, as the rich cultural heritage of the Ghanaian coast, includes beliefs and taboos that once prohibited the unsustainable use of…

On the Pacific coast of Colombia, mangroves occur in high density, creating a biodiversity hotspot for marine life. The Uramba Bahía Málaga National Natural Park is home to many coastal species, including the scalloped bonnethead shark, a small hammerhead that is endangered and faces threats from overfishing and bycatch. SOSF…

The nature of the Eastern Tropical Pacific, with its upwelling and complex oceanography, means that it is a region likely to experience significant changes as our climate continues to change. Sharks and rays, a quarter of which are threatened with extinction largely as a result of overfishing, may be particularly…

ʻI have been very fortunate to work on several islands on many different seabird species,’ begins researcher Danielle Keys, the lead author of a hopeful new paper that shows a 10-fold increase in wedge-tailed shearwater birds on D’Arros Island from 2009 to 2021. Danielle, who hails from Nelson Mandela University in South…

A recently published paper concludes that MPAs are a useful fisheries management tool. These protected areas help to bolster the numbers and body sizes of various important catch species and improve not only the catches, but also catch-per-unit-effort, which is an indirect measure of fish abundance. MPAs also provide ‘spillover’…