Ocean News

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…

Bryde’s, sei and sperm whales, some of the least-known species of beaked whales, and Risso’s, common bottlenose and striped dolphins. The tropical waters of Seychelles are rich in life and, as new research is confirming, a hotspot for whales and dolphins.

Twenty years of turning hope into action: The founder of the Save Our Seas Foundation Wins NOGI Distinguished Service Award. For 20 years the SOSF has pursued a vision of sustainable oceans for all, focusing on highly threatened sharks and rays and the critically under-funded work that goes into their…

The Save Our Seas Foundation is not just a funding body, but a global community of passionate researchers and conservationists coming together with the same vision: a brighter future for sharks and rays. We have recently released a film that showcases the dedicated people we are proud to have supported…

Transportive, inspirational and (we hope most especially) celebratory, the 12th edition of Save Our Seas, the magazine of the Save Our Seas Foundation, is now available online and in print. In the 20th anniversary year of the SOSF, it was important to us that this edition be a moment for…

His Excellency Abdulmohsen Abdulmalik Al-Sheikh formally started the Save Our Seas Foundation (SOSF) in 2003, but had been exploring our oceans and supporting marine conservation projects long before that. Here, in conversation with Pippa Ehrlich, His Excellency talks about how he fell in love with sharks and then set about…

Twenty years ago, the US had just invaded Iraq, space shuttle Columbia disintegrated on re-entry into our atmosphere, and Finding Nemo launched a trio of repentant sharks intent on revoking fish as food onto the silver screen. In that same year, a fledg­ling Save our Seas Foundation (SOSF) embedded itself…

The joy of nature is something all children should experience. But in today’s world, they will also encounter something other than nature: anxiety and a deep sense of responsibility for its future. Save Our Seas Foundation Shark Education Centre (SOSF-SEC) has a challenging but important role to play in raising…