Ocean News

At the Save Our Seas Foundation (SOSF), we believe that storytellers have a powerful and unique role in generating meaningful change for our oceans. A single image can transform something distant into an experience we can see, feel and connect with, taking us into a world that is ordinarily hidden…

A new study, led by researchers based at the Save Our Seas Foundation D’Arros Research Centre (SOSF-DRC), has found 12 types of microplastic in the secluded waters where reef manta rays feed daily, raising questions about the impact of this silent threat to the ocean’s gentlest of giants.   For…

The inaugural Save Our Seas Foundation (SOSF) Ocean Storytelling Film Grant (OSTG) has been awarded to a film project that will tell a story of deep conservation urgency. By providing funding and mentorship for an emerging natural history storyteller, the SOSF and the OSTG mentors believe that some of the…

SOSF project leader and PhD researcher Rachel Newsome has been testing different methods of attaching biologgers – a kind of animal Fitbit – to reef manta rays to unlock secrets about their movements and behaviour.

Our crisis is one of connection, and the quality of our future depends on this single realisation: we are deeply woven into the fabric that holds all life in balance on this planet. Watch Oscar-winning filmmaker and naturalist Craig Foster, Save Our Seas Foundation CEO Dr James Lea and science…

Victoria is a city with the ocean in its veins. The breeze carries with it a metallic tang of ozone and salt. Seabirds line the roof of the mayor’s office and wheel above the esplanade, where azure water can be glimpsed in the narrow gaps between craft kiosks, each laden…

Scratching an itch, scraping off parasites and sloughing off dead skin cells are hard to do without hands. But when project leader Nico Fassbender watched 500 hours of BRUVS footage filmed in Seychelles, he found that trevallies have found a bold solution to their fishy problems.

Wenzel Pinto’s first international journey landed him on the shores of Cameroon, West Africa. An Ocean Storytelling Writing Grant Winner, he arrived eager to explore the similarities and differences between his work at Lakshadweep, an archipelago in India, and Littoral Cameroon. Here, in a country with such dizzying diversity in…

On assignment in Mexico, Ocean Storytelling Photography Grant Winner Acacia Johnson found a story that asks us to honour the past in order to re-imagine the future. On a coastline where change is happening apace, shark scientists Ilse Martínez-Candelas and Nadia Rubio have found tales of an ocean already gone…

Through words and illustrations by Dylan McGarry, readers and viewers alike are invited to ponder ‘why conservation storytelling needs a course correction’. In Dylan’s narrative, we learn of his longing for a “reparative conservation storytelling ethic … a storytelling ethic that re-orientates conservation towards care that is relational, accountable and…

In the intertidal zone where land meets sea, the ebb and flow of the rising and falling tides exposes a natural laboratory; one on which Sarang Naik, Ocean Storytelling Photography Grant Winner, has trained his lens. Whether on India’s bustling Mumbai coast, or South Africa’s more rural Mdumbi rocky coast,…

In conversation with Noel Kok, co-founder of NEWF – Nature Environment & Wildlife Filmmakers and National Geographic Explorer, we learn about flipping the script of Africa(ns) as a perception. Lauren De Vos chatted to Noel about breaking barriers, cultivating community and building a fair platform for Africa’s offerings on an…

Fanni Daniella Szakál, Ocean Storytelling Writing Grant Winner, travelled to the Port of Ngqura, an industrial harbour east of Gqeberha, South Africa. This port, some researchers claim, has a higher abundance of fish than anywhere else along this country’s coastline. Reporting on the research of Save Our Seas Foundation project…

When she was on assignment exploring shark and ray fisheries in Ghana and Cameroon, Ocean Storytelling Photography Grant Winner Gabriella Angotti-Jones used her lens to capture the spirit and experience of West Africa. Her photographic journey reflects a scattered marketplace of moments and memories, where each image vies for your…

Far out in the Pacific Ocean lies Mo’orea, an island set in a sprawling tapestry of five archipelagos in French Polynesia. Ash-grey volcanic tips, lush green foliage and white sandy beaches give way to flourishing coral reefs that encircle the island. Travelling across seas in 2023, Ocean Storytelling Writing Grant…