Ocean News

The latest IUCN Red List assessments for sharks and rays are in, and it’s official. Overfishing is the main culprit driving extinction.

Dr Tom Hart is a self-professed penguinologist whose interest lies in collecting sound, long-term data that allow us to track change in wild places. He is also a research fellow at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. Working together with Heather Lynch at New York’s Stony Brook University, Oceanites’ Antarctic…

They say that hindsight gives us 20/20 vision, but anticipating change might allow us to plan for a better future. And it may well be that the only certainty in our world is change, but predicting precisely what that change will be is not always an exact science.

The last region on earth to be discovered by humankind, the importance of Antarctica now lies in its role in helping us understand our changing world and finding our future trajectory.

Deep below the Nazca Plate in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the writhing earth’s crust has belched molten lava for more than 20 million years. These geological dramas gave birth to the Galápagos Archipelago, a collection of islands that have clawed their way to the sea’s surface over millennia.

Although tiny specks in the Indian Ocean, D’Arros Island and St Joseph Atoll are home to a dazzling community of species. In March 2020, as the world took shelter from Covid-19, Seychelles declared a phased marine protected area around them.

As a first-time natural history filmmaker, Pippa Ehrlich took on the challenge of co-directing a film about an octopus. The result, 'My Octopus Teacher', has won acclaim around the world. Pippa talks to a former colleague at the Save Our Seas Foundation.

The prevalence of unhealthy and abusive cultures in marine science, especially shark research, has been described before. For years, conversations about building a more diverse and equitable future have yielded limited results. Why, and how can we move beyond talk?

To help researchers to identify them, Prof. Mahmood Shivji of the DEEPEND Consortium and Save Our Seas Foundation Shark Research Center is using large-scale DNA sequencing to develop diagnostic barcodes of the anglerfishes in the Gulf of Mexico. But now these deep-sea fishes are shining a light in an unexpected…

An educational book for communities in Mozambique Written by Ruth H. Leeney, with illustrations by Owen Williams and Ruth H. Leeney ‘The Dugongs of Bazaruto’ (and in Portuguese: ‘Os Dugongos do Arquipélago do Bazaruto‘) is an educational book about dugongs and their main habitat in Mozambique – the Bazaruto Archipelago…

PangeaSeed Foundation’s global Sea Walls: Artists for Oceans programme took place in Santa Cruz 13-18 September 2021 to create 15 ocean advocacy murals, as well as host various public events to increase interest and engagement in marine stewardship within the Santa Cruz community.

Since the beginning of the project, a decade ago, scientists from the GWSP have carried out ground-breaking science for the conservation of this endangered species, working in collaboration with multiple organizations and expert scientists from around the world.

New genetic analyses confirm that tiger shark populations are genetically distinct   It probably shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that Sereia made headlines when satellites detected her off Indonesia’s coast in April 2020. Her whereabouts had been tracked since November 2018, when she’d been tagged by Dr…

We are delighted to introduce our new emerging Ocean Storyteller Grants, which will focus on photography in its inaugural year. These photography grants are dedicated to finding and supporting a new and diverse generation of conservation storytellers. Four successful grantees will receive a fully-funded assignment to shoot a conservation photo…

Perceptions and management of shark risk in South Africa Gill nets were first deployed to catch sharks off Durban’s beachfront in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) in South Africa in 1952 in response to seven fatal shark bites that occurred at Durban beaches between 1943 and 1951. People no longer came to the…