Ocean News

SOSF collaborator, Nick Jones has spent more than 1000 hours underwater filming various types of marine wildlife from humpback whales to great white sharks. His work has been featured by Lonely Planet, Wanderlust and the BBC. This past year, as part of his Masters in Wildlife Filmmaking at the University…

When you buy fish, are you really getting what you are paying for? This is what this project aims to find out. The mislabelling of seafood has never been investigated in Guatemala, nor has any research been conducted…

Last month, the world gathered at the year’s largest wildlife summit in Manila, Philippines. At the 12th Conference of the Parties to the Convention of the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS CoP12), from 23-28th October,…

Springtime at the Bimini Shark Lab is usually all about lemon sharks. The mangrove-fringed islands of Bimini are home to one of the longest-running studies on sharks. Each year pregnant lemon sharks drop their pups in the shallow…

The remote country of Seychelles is an archipelago of 115 islands off the east coast of Africa. Towards the outermost edges of this country lies the Amirantes, a group of coral islands and atolls. One of these locations, D’Arros Island and St Joseph Atoll, hosts the SOSF D’Arros Research Centre.…

The 21st annual European Elasmobranch Association Scientific Conference, hosted by The Dutch Elasmobranch Society was held in Amsterdam, Netherlands from 12 – 14 October, 2017. Under a theme of ‘the science you need for the policy you want’, dozens of researchers and conservationists gathered at the KIT Royal Tropical Institute…

Well into the third year of the deep water shark project, we have learned quite a lot about what I like to call the ‘Weird Sharks of Belize’. We’re now up to nine species, and we’re sending cameras…

Situated along the outermost islands of the African country of Seychelles lies the remote D’Arros Island and St Joseph Atoll, an area extremely abundant with various species of fish. Habitat-wise, D’Arros and St Joseph are home to 15 of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red Listed species, including…

At the base of South Africa’s iconic Table Mountain, the scenic city of Cape Town is a hotspot for tourists during the warmer months (October to April) when thousands of people visit the city’s idyllic beaches. Throughout this time, the city hosts the second largest aggregation of white sharks in…

Nobody has ever tested whether a shark or ray can derive a sense of location using geomagnetic cues. The series of experiments I am conducting sets out to determine whether the yellow stingray can detect changes in the…

The charismatic manta ray, with its wing-like pectoral fins, spends its life in perpetual motion, wandering the seas in search of microscopic plankton which it feeds on. These majestic creatures captivate and connect people to our oceans and have become a popular species for eco-tourism. However, mantas are vulnerable to…

Last month, the world gathered at the year’s largest wildlife summit in Manila, Philippines. At the 12th Conference of the Parties to the Convention of the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS CoP12), from 23-28th October,…