Ocean News

Where do female sharks give birth? How big or how small are shark pups when they are born? How do the pups survive their first months of life? What do they eat? For viviparous (live-bearing) sharks these questions are mostly unanswered. The reason? The pups of most shark species are…

We’re excited to announce that we’re back on board with the Wavescape festival! This year, we have some great conservation-themed instalments to add to their ocean-themed line-up, which underlines our strong focus on media advocacy and awareness.   Home to our Shark Education Centre in Kalk Bay, South Africa is…

As Cape Town begins warming up for their summer season, we’re warming up for another epic collaboration for this year’s Wavescape Surf and Film Festival. Save Our Seas Foundation has been a sponsor of this incredible event for over 10 years, raising awareness around threats to our oceans and engaging…

GENIE The Life and Recollections of Eugenie Clark By Jose I. Castro In this beautifully bound new book, you will find the extraordinary life of world-renowned marine biologist Eugenie Clark laid out before you as never before. From the very beginning to the very end, her life was nothing short…

How popular press adds to public misunderstanding of environmental issues surrounding sharks.   Sharks face several threats every day, but one that doesn’t make the headlines are the headlines themselves. How sharks are portrayed in mainstream media is often misleading, inaccurate and commonly directed towards a single risk factor. This…

From coastal cities to landlocked towns the ocean plays a crucial role in our environment. The biodiversity of the ocean breathes fresh air into our atmosphere and brings rainfall and food to us all around the world. Our existence and the existence of all the world’s creatures hangs in the…

October 17th marks an important day on our calendars where we highlight one of our oceans most marvellous creatures – International Sawfish Day. First launched four years ago, this day is dedicated to increasing knowledge and awareness of one of the most endangered groups of elasmobranchs. As long-time supporters of…

When the Save Our Seas Foundation established the SOSF Shark Education Centre in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2008, it aimed to connect people of all ages from the local communities – as well as visitors from distant lands – with the unique marine environment found on their doorstep in…

The Save Our Seas Foundation and the Museum of Natural History of Geneva join forces for oceans. We are proud to announce our partnership with the Museum of Natural History of Geneva in celebrating the museum’s 200th birthday in 2020. In a spectacular show, the museum has welcomed three main…

Threatened shark species still make up most of the international shark fin trade A new genetics study published in Nature by Diego Cardeñosa has highlighted that endangered shark species continue to make up a major portion of the international trade for their fins. For the first time, the species found…

This year we are celebrating the first-ever World Manta Day – a full day to raise awareness for and show appreciation of these gloriously mysterious creatures. Save Our Seas Foundation couldn’t be more excited to join our partners at Manta Trust in the celebration of our flappy friends! ‘Manta‘ means…

Conservation research is failing sawfishes if its outcomes are never communicated to those with the power to take action to protect sawfishes.   A scientific paper by Alifa Haque, Aparna Riti Biswas, and myself has been published today (Publish, then perish? Five years on sawfish are still at risk in…

Across Europe, 2019 brought record summer temperatures, followed by dramatic scenes of bush fires across Australia at the close of the year and into early 2020. According to NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, the global land and ocean surface temperature in January 2020 was the highest in the 141-year…

Have you ever found a mermaid’s purse on the beach? These little capsules can be cast upon the beach where they blend in well with strands of seaweed, so you need to be looking carefully to find one! Perhaps, in the past, some people believed that they were indeed purses…

Whale sharks are the largest member of the shark family and the largest fish in the world. Weighing up to 20 tonnes, they can grow up to 14 m long – that’s as long as a school bus! However, these pelagic animals do not evoke the same fearful reaction in…