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Decades of data collection have culminated in a collaborative scientific process to identify essential habitats for sharks and rays in the Western Indian Ocean. The Important Shark and Ray Areas will guide management and policy decisions. Seychelles is a key marine conservation player in the critical waters of the vast…

Research on how the small spotted cat sharks' ability to breed and rear young might change, can help us to also understand the consequences for potentially rarer species. Without these future projections, we cannot adapt now our monitoring and management of sharks to anticipate the impact of climate change.

The submarine landscape of Panama’s offshore Cordillera de Coiba Marine Protected Area is nothing short of extraordinary. Here, 24 sea mounts soar from the depths across nine marine mountain ranges, their pelagic peaks a stunning contrast to an abyssal trench that plunges to a depth of more than 4,700 metres…

In the depths of Iceland’s frigid waters, scientists have been gathering information about habitats that are critical for a small shark with a surprising super-power. They want to know where a small deep-sea dogfish that lights up like a lantern feeds, breeds and grows. The velvet belly lanternshark belongs to…

Endangered, far-flung, and young; that’s the Save Our Seas Foundation’s 2024 cohort of projects, their focus species, their ecosystems – and their leaders. The leaders span those working to conserve endangered and overlooked species, early career scientists blazing trails for a new generation of hope, and conservationists balancing the challenges…

Calling shark and ray researchers, conservationists and educators tackling pressing ocean conservation issues: the SOSF Keystone Grant application process for the 2025/26 funding cycle is now open. The Stage I deadline is 3 May 2024 at 18:00 CET. Our Keystone Grants are dedicated to supporting all marine scientists, conservationists and educators with…

There is great power in the small efforts of many, and this is the retelling of an achievement brought about by CMS, a small, dedicated group of conservationists, and SOSF project leader, Eva Meyers. During the CMS COP14, which convened in Samarkand, Uzbekistan in February of this year, the Single…

A new publication, ‘Remote hideaways: first insights into the population sizes, habitat use, and residency of manta rays at aggregation areas in Seychelles’, draws on more than a decade of underwater photographs collected during research dives and submitted to the project by citizen scientists between 2006 and 2018 to estimate…

Never has there been such urgency as there is now to remember the reaches of the ocean realm that we’d otherwise ignore or forget: the deep seabeds mined for phosphorous and oil, the silent trawl beds dredged of invertebrate life, the lacklustre corals bleached into insignificance. Just as so much…

The SOSF Conservation Fellowship was launched in 2023 to celebrate 20 years of the SOSF and provides up to US$8,000 per year for two years to directly support the living costs of someone to carry out shark and ray conservation work in a developing country. The aim is to help…

There are oceans between us: genetics uncover structure and diversity in wide-ranging but imperilled oceanic whitetip shark populations.

Grey reef sharks resting changes what we know about how they breathe

We are excited to announce the 8 finalists of the Save Our Seas Foundation Ocean Storytelling Photography Grant 2023!   The judges reviewed applications from passionate and creative photographers from around the world. Making a final selection was tough when talent was so evidently in abundance, but the sheer diversity…