Ocean News

Save Our Seas is the proud sponsor of the project The Shark Riddle, now a finalist for Best Children’s Program at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. Our congratulations to Laura and Robert Sams! The Shark Riddle is a new episode of the children’s series called The Riddle Solvers. The…

Get ready for a quirky, wonderful look at the “less famous” sharks of the world, in a video made by the students in our Shark Week class at Portland Saturday Academy, Summer 2011. We spent the entire week…

The Pew Environment Group reports that Chile’s president has signed a law that bans shark finning – the practice of slicing off a shark’s fins at sea and dumping the animal, often still alive, back into the sea to die – in Chilean waters. The new law will help conserve…

Promising news for sharks – two weeks ago, leaders at the 15th Micronesian Chief Executive Summit passed a resolution (PDF) to begin the process of creating a regional sanctuary where shark fishing would be prohibited. The agreement, which also authorizes the development of a regional ban on the possession, sale…

Shelly Clarke, whose research has been vital to estimating the number of sharks killed yearly to supply the fin trade, has written a cogent article on why it’s important to use accurate numbers to support conservation efforts. Shelly makes a strong and clear case: I’m inevitably interrupted at this point…

We are thrilled to announce that Sisbro Studios has received a grant from the Save Our Seas Foundation to create "Shark Days," shark-themed family events at science museums, aquariums and libraries on the west coast of the United…

In July 2012, the 12 th ICRS will welcome over 2,500 delegates from around to world to the tropical city of Cairns, Australia, to attend 1,500 talks and posters presenting the latest research on the world’s coral reefs. The Reef Sharks and Coral Reefs mini-symposium will focus on research into…

Save Our Seas Foundation-sponsored shark researcher Greg Skomal’s work, which involves tagging white sharks with satellite and acoustic tags to learn about when and why they approach local beaches, has made the news in Cape Code, Massachusetts. From the article: "Our primary focus is the feeding dynamics between sharks and…

The decline of large predators and other "apex consumers" at the top of the food chain has disrupted ecosystems all over the planet, according to a new wide-ranging review published this month in the journal Science. A team of 24 scientists from six countries analyzed research on a wide range…

Last month at the 40th anniversary of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s (UNESCO’s) ‘Man and the Biosphere Program’ in Dresden, Germany the entirety of Baa Atoll in the Republic of Maldives was declared a UNESCO…

SOSF West African manatee project leader Lucy Keith is currently blogging from the field in Congo: Mamiwata is an African name for a spirit believed to be embodied by the manatee. This blog chronicles my search for the elusive West African manatee, and my exploration to understand its biology, habitat…

Our project team was recently up on site at Mantanani (NW Borneo) catching juvenile sea turtles again, as part of our work to look at sex ratios in the wild. The problem is, all new turtles we’re finding…