Lauren de Vos talks about the importance of fish surveys for conservation.
Life began in the ocean. Now 90 percent of the big fish, including sharks and rays, are gone.
Save Our Seas Foundation Photographer and CEO Peter Verhoog documents the annual Great Fiji Shark Count.
To deploy Baited Remote Underwater Video Stations (BRUVS) in False Bay, providing the first comprehensive survey of fish and sharks across all habitats.
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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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Lauren de Vos talks about the importance of fish surveys for conservation.
From more shark hunts to more shark nets, this may be a tipping point for humans and sharks. By Christopher Neff
Can we co-exist with our ocean's apex predators? Researcher Alison Kock examines our relationship with sharks.
Deteriorating Mediterranean coastal ecosystems remain under significant threat from increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
Project leader Guy Stevens on UNESCO's recent announcement of World Biosphere Reserve status for Baa Atoll in the Maldives.
A visit to Florida's "Turtle Coast", where development, pollution, and fishing have caused sea turtle populations to dwindle.
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Save Our Seas Foundation Photographer and CEO Peter Verhoog documents the annual Great Fiji Shark Count.
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.
60 Minutes Australia visits the SOSF-supported Maldivian Manta Ray project, and CEO Peter Verhoog came along to document the shoot.
SOSF CEO and underwater photographer Peter Verhoog documents a sad encounter with a sick subadult humpback whale.
Alison Kock joins a salmon shark research expedition to Alaska, hoping to learn more about this little-known species of shark.
Peter Verhoog documents the National Geographic team attaching crittercams to great white sharks in False Bay, South Africa.
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Life began in the ocean. Now 90 percent of the big fish, including sharks and rays, are gone.
Highlights from a BRUVS trial run in the Simon's Town Harbour.
The white shark is one of the most feared of creatures in the sea but is this reputation really deserved?
The SOSF team head to the Aliwal Shoal on the East Coast of South Africa to learn more about Tiger Sharks.
SOSF heads to the Aliwal Shoal to learn more about Tiger sharks, powerful predators unjustly seen as ruthless man-eaters.
An expedition to study Giant Manta Rays in the area around the Socorro Archipelago, Mexico.
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