Ocean News

An international, shark-focused meeting of more than 50 nations, convened under the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), concluded this week in Bonn with adoption of a global conservation plan for great white sharks, porbeagles, basking sharks, spiny dogfish, whale sharks, and two species of makos. The plan aims to complement…

Last month, Save Our Seas launched a media campaign about the BRUV project in False Bay (read more at here). This project is executed by Project leaders Colin Attwood, Albrecht Götz and Lauren de Vos. Partners are The Marine Research Institute, UCT & South African Environmental Observation Netwok (SAEON). It…

Greg Skomal, whose work has been sponsored by Save Our Seas Foundation, has been featured in a New York Times article on great white tagging and tracking off Cape Code, Mass. Speaking about the expedition’s tagging methods, which involve removing the shark from the water into a cradle, he noted:…

Google’s Street View, part of Google Maps, has gone underwater with the addition of several underwater panoramas to the service: Today we’re adding the very first underwater panoramic images to Google Maps, the next step in our quest to provide people with the most comprehensive, accurate and usable map of…

This year, over 200 grant applications were received, requesting a total of over US$ 5.5 Million of grant aid from the Save Our Seas Foundation in year 2013-2014. 53 of all these applications were successfully passed through to Stage 2. These figures do not take into account projects that are…

In conjunction with the 1000 Kids One Message event, the 2012 Children’s Painting Competition, part of OceanNEnvironment’s public awareness campaign, invites entries for the 2012 Celebrate the Sea’s Children’s Art competition. Children aged between 7 and 15, have until 28th October 2012 to enter this international competition (now in its…

Ron Taylor, the Australian marine conservation pioneer who helped film some of the heart-stopping, iconic underwater footage in the movie Jaws, has died. He was 78. Wildlife conservationists led the tributes for Taylor, who died at a private hospital in Sydney yesterday. He had battled myeloid leukaemia for two years,…

Hong Kong (CNN) — Cathay Pacific, the world’s largest carrier of air cargo, will stop shipping unsustainably sourced shark products in a move marine conservation groups haracterized as a big step forward in efforts to protect the animals. "We believe that we now have compelling evidence that the majority of…

This year, the Save Our Seas Funds the ‘Academies by the Sea", a two-week marine education programmes for secondary schol The Academies will develop the knowledge of marine life in Seychelles, their habitats and conservation, and introduce participants to the techniques researchers use to study them. The courses are based…

Write this down in your diary! On September 8th, 2012, you can learn all about Mediterranean Great White Sharks during the British Science Festival Visit Macduff Marine Aquarium to get up close to some fishy friends from the Moray Firth. A fish feeding show at 14.00 will be followed by…

Using a new comprehensive index designed to assess the benefits to people of healthy oceans, scientists have evaluated the ecological, social, economic, and political conditions for every coastal country in the world. Their findings, published recently in the journal Nature, show that the global ocean scores 60 out of 100…

* Study shows 81 percent of samples from at-risk species * Tests done at 51 restaurants in 14 U.S. cities * "You need to care about sharks" – attack survivor ORLANDO, Fla., Aug 9 (Reuters) – Survivors of shark attacks – now trying to save the animals that took their…

IUCN Specialist Group issues Red List Assessments for North & Central American species IUCN Specialist Group issues Red List Assessments for North & Central American species Vancouver, British Columbia. August 13, 2012. At the close of the annual meeting of leading American shark and ray scientists, the IUCN Shark Specialist…

In 2011, the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean experienced six shark bite incidents, two of which were fatal with one serious injury. In 2012, Reunion has had more tragedies as one fatality on 24 July was followed by a serious shark bite on 5 August. In tragic company,…

Recently, conservation film producer Chris Mason attended the 4th International Wildlife Management Congress 2012 in Durban. He had some interesting observations: do we need to manage wildlife, or do we need to manage the people and their attitude? An interesting question, that is also a valid question in ocean conservation.…