More shark-a-track than shark attack
The work of Save Our Seas Supported Scientist Ryan Saunders was recently featured in the Irish Times. Ryan updates us: “After a frustrating summer of not seeing any sharks, we managed to get all our...
View ArticleIdentifying shark fins
How do you identify a shark? Save Our Seas Supported Scientist Demian Chapman sent us an update about a new website that addresses this intriguing subject. His team developed a guide for law...
View ArticleEU Parliament Endorses Stronger Finning Ban
The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favor of closing loopholes in the European Union ban on shark finning (slicing off a shark’s fins and discarding the body at sea), the culmination of...
View ArticleMercury Released Into Air Contaminates Ocean Fish
In new research published in a special issue of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives and in “Sources to Seafood: Mercury Pollution in the Marine Environment”, scientists report that mercury...
View ArticleAre Jellyfish Really On The Rise?
Blooms, or proliferations, of jellyfish can show a substantial, visible impact on coastal populations—clogged nets for fishermen, stinging waters for tourists, even choked cooling intake pipes for...
View ArticleHeat-Resistant Corals Provide Clues to Climate Change Survival
Coral reefs are instrumental to the health of the marine environment. They are home to 25% of all marine life, and provide important ecosystem services. They are also notoriously susceptible to the...
View ArticleFemale Great Whites Show High Residency to Inshore Coastal Areas
Seal colonies are well established white shark aggregation areas, but a new study shows that inshore coastal areas (not associated with seals) can be equally as important for white sharks and that use...
View ArticleReclassifying Human-Shark Interaction
Save Our Seas Foundation has been pleased to provide funding for a peer-reviewed research paper by University of Sydney doctoral candidate Christopher Neff and and Dr. Robert Hueter, Director of Marine...
View ArticleIdentifying Shark Fins
Dr. Demian Chapman of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University has published a shark fin identification guide aimed at aiding enforcement and customs personnel in the...
View ArticleBig Win For Sharks and Mantas at CITES
In a coup for for shark and manta conservation efforts, five species of shark and two species of manta rays will now be subject to international trade regulation under CITES (Convention on...
View ArticleLearning From Turtles’ Genetic Fingerprints
For 220 million years they have roamed the seas, denizens of the bustling coral reef and the vast open ocean. Each year, some emerge from the pounding surf onto moonlit beaches to lay their eggs....
View ArticleWhite Shark Migrations Powered By Liver Oil
A new research paper, published July 17 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, reveals previously unknown details of how great white sharks power themselves and stay buoyant on non-stop trips of more...
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Manta Rays are no longer mating, and it’s a problem
Recently, Guy Stevens and his team were visited by a reporter from the Guardian newspaper who came to the Maldives to find out why the Maldivian mantas have stopped breeding. Below is his story:...
View ArticleAnalysis Of White Shark Gene Finds Fewer Differences Compared To Humans Than...
Genome-Scale View of Great White Shark Uncovers Unexpected and Distinctive Features The great white shark, a major apex predator made famous by the movie “Jaws,” is one of the world’s most iconic...
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Gruesome Shark-Finning Tactic Lets Costa Rican Fishermen Exploit Legal Loophole
Exporting shark fins is a lucrative business in Costa Rica, where it appears fishermen are exploiting a legal loophole to get as many of them as they can—no matter the environmental cost. Earlier this...
View ArticleSOSF supports WWF’s marine conservation program in Pakistan
In 2013, Save Our Seas Foundation supported WWF Pakistan to asses the impacts of gillnets of the Pakistani coastline. Massive nets, sometimes up to 12 km long are left out overnight and trap...
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Stories from the blue: Nick Dulvy
Save Our Seas Foundation is privileged to work with some of the most amazing marine researchers and conservationists on the planet. The work that they do to preserve marine life around the world is...
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Landmark paper reveals that ¼ of shark and ray species are threatened with...
PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE SAVE OUR SEAS FOUNDATION CONSERVATION MEDIA UNIT Cape Town, South Africa, January 21, 2014- A quarter of the world’s sharks, rays and chimaeras (the chondrichthyan fishes)...
View ArticleSOSF Infographic: Sharks and Rays around the world are in serious trouble
Infographic designed by Alessandro Bonora, Save Our Seas Conservation Media Unit
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Palau is to be a “100% marine sanctuary”
“We have no choice - the ocean is our way of life. It’s our livelihood, it’s our culture, it’s our economy - I always say the economy is our environment and the environment is our economy. You may ask...
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