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Exploring False Bay’s Underwater Fauna using BRUVS

Lauren de Vos talks about the importance of fish surveys for conservation.

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90 Percent PSA

Life began in the ocean. Now 90 percent of the big fish, including sharks and rays, are gone.

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The Great Fiji Shark Count

Save Our Seas Foundation Photographer and CEO Peter Verhoog documents the annual Great Fiji Shark Count.

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BRUVS in False Bay

To deploy Baited Remote Underwater Video Stations (BRUVS) in False Bay, providing the first comprehensive survey of fish and sharks across all habitats.

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The Rise of Shark Nets?

From more shark hunts to more shark nets, this may be a tipping point for humans and sharks. By Christopher Neff

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    Identifying Shark Fins

    Published on 08 Mar, 2013 by Save Our Seas Foundation

    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 identification…

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    Reclassifying Human-Shark Interaction

    Published on 01 Feb, 2013 by Save Our Seas Foundation

    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 Biology…

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    Female Great Whites Show High Residency to Inshore Coastal Areas

    Published on 30 Jan, 2013 by Save Our Seas Foundation

    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…

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    Heat-Resistant Corals Provide Clues to Climate Change Survival

    Published on 16 Jan, 2013 by Save Our Seas Foundation

    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…

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    Are Jellyfish Really On The Rise?

    Published on 03 Jan, 2013 by Save Our Seas Foundation

    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 power plants—and recent media reports…

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    Mercury Released Into Air Contaminates Ocean Fish

    Published on 03 Dec, 2012 by Save Our Seas Foundation

    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 released into the…

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    Working together for Marine Awareness

    Published on 09 Mar, 2013 in Marine Education (SC)

    As Project Leader and as an individual it is one of my key aims to get involved in as much as possible and subsequently get as many other people involved along the…

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    Porbeagles on the agenda at the 16th CITES meeting

    Published on 07 Mar, 2013 in Porbeagle Sharks (IE)

    According to the IUCN Red List porbeagles are Vulnerable globally, Endangered in the northwest Atlantic, and Critically Endangered in the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. Porbeagles have been protected in EU waters…

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    Nests Upon Nests?

    Published on 07 Mar, 2013 in Turtle Diaries

    In the east coast state of Orissa, the Rushikulya sandbar hosted an estimated 120,000 olive ridley sea turtles during the arribada—a 6-day mass nesting event beginning on February 13 2013! Olive ridley…

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    Ellie moves north along the shelf break

    Published on 05 Mar, 2013 in Porbeagle Sharks (IE)

    Since our last post we have been keeping a close watch for transmissions from Ellie and she hasn’t disappointed. She has continued to swim north along the shelf break west of Ireland…

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    Ellie the porbeagle returns to Ireland

    Published on 28 Feb, 2013 in Porbeagle Sharks (IE)

    After spending almost a month at the shelf break off the southwest coast of Ireland Ellie has made a rapid push north. She swam over 300 km over the past five days…

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    Things to do in the dark for Earth Hour

    Published on 28 Feb, 2013 in Shark Centre (RSA)

    At 8:30pm on Sat 23 March, the planet will go dark as lights are switched off around the globe in a symbolic act to protect the planet. This year, WWF encourages you…

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    Exploring False Bay’s Underwater Fauna using BRUVS

    Published on 27 Aug, 2012 by Save Our Seas Foundation

    Lauren de Vos talks about the importance of fish surveys for conservation.

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    The Rise of Shark Nets?

    Published on 09 Mar, 2012 by Christopher Neff

    From more shark hunts to more shark nets, this may be a tipping point for humans and sharks. By Christopher Neff

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    Living With Sharks

    Published on 04 Oct, 2011 by Alison Kock

    Can we co-exist with our ocean's apex predators? Researcher Alison Kock examines our relationship with sharks.

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    Damage to Marine Ecosystems as CO2 Emissions Rise

    Published on 22 Aug, 2011 by Save Our Seas Foundation

    Deteriorating Mediterranean coastal ecosystems remain under significant threat from increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

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    Baa Atoll, Maldives - A UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve

    Published on 19 Jul, 2011 by Guy Stevens

    Project leader Guy Stevens on UNESCO's recent announcement of World Biosphere Reserve status for Baa Atoll in the Maldives.

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    Turtle Talk

    Published on 07 Jun, 2011 by Georgina Wiersma

    A visit to Florida's "Turtle Coast", where development, pollution, and fishing have caused sea turtle populations to dwindle.

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    The Great Fiji Shark Count

    Published on 19 Jun, 2012 by Save Our Seas Foundation

    Save Our Seas Foundation Photographer and CEO Peter Verhoog documents the annual Great Fiji Shark Count.

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    The Whale Sharks of Djibouti

    Published on 13 Feb, 2012 by Save Our Seas Foundation

    The Gulf of Tadjoura in Djibouti is home to a unique seasonal aggregation of juvenile and subadult whale sharks. Save Our Seas Foundation CEO Peter Verhoog accompanies project leader David Rowat on this year's expedition.

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    Mantas in the Maldives with 60 Minutes

    Published on 12 Nov, 2011 by Save Our Seas Foundation

    60 Minutes Australia visits the SOSF-supported Maldivian Manta Ray project, and CEO Peter Verhoog came along to document the shoot.

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    Whale Watching – An Incredible Experience

    Published on 12 Sep, 2011 by Peter Verhoog

    SOSF CEO and underwater photographer Peter Verhoog documents a sad encounter with a sick subadult humpback whale.

  • On the Hunt For Alaska’s “Killer Sharks”

    Published on 09 Sep, 2011 by Alison Kock

    Alison Kock joins a salmon shark research expedition to Alaska, hoping to learn more about this little-known species of shark.

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    National Geographic: A Special Mission

    Published on 29 Aug, 2011 by Save Our Seas Foundation

    Peter Verhoog documents the National Geographic team attaching crittercams to great white sharks in False Bay, South Africa.

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    90 Percent PSA

    Published on 26 Jun, 2012 by Save Our Seas Foundation

    Life began in the ocean. Now 90 percent of the big fish, including sharks and rays, are gone.

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    BRUVS Test Run in Simon’s Town Harbour

    Published on 26 Jun, 2012 by Save Our Seas Foundation

    Highlights from a BRUVS trial run in the Simon's Town Harbour.

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    White Sharks of South Africa

    Published on 30 Apr, 2012 by Save Our Seas Foundation

    The white shark is one of the most feared of creatures in the sea but is this reputation really deserved?

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    Tigers of the Sea (Part 3)

    Published on 04 Apr, 2012 by Save Our Seas Foundation

    The SOSF team head to the Aliwal Shoal on the East Coast of South Africa to learn more about Tiger Sharks.

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    Tigers of the Sea (Parts 1 & 2)

    Published on 21 Mar, 2012 by Save Our Seas Foundation

    SOSF heads to the Aliwal Shoal to learn more about Tiger sharks, powerful predators unjustly seen as ruthless man-eaters.

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    Giant Manta Rays of Mexico

    Published on 19 Mar, 2012 by Save Our Seas Foundation

    An expedition to study Giant Manta Rays in the area around the Socorro Archipelago, Mexico.

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