Manta rays create mobile ecosystems, study finds

A new study reveals how manta rays form unique interactions with other fishes in South Florida waters—highlighting their complex ecological interactions between species that support ocean life. Read more here.

Reefolution respond to marine ecosystem disruption

Decades of inaction responding to rapidly increasing carbon emissions, industrial overfishing, point source contamination, and similar compounding pressures on our planet’s oceans have begun obvious, large scale disruption of marine ecosystems. Read more here.

Agency lauds whale shark protections

The Ocean Conservation Administration (OCA) yesterday welcomed a decision by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to increase protections for whale sharks, saying that Taiwan already designated whale sharks as protected species in 2020 and has helped them recover. Read more here.

Seafloor survey in Cambodia finds simple anti-trawling blocks help seagrass recover

A recent study provides the first large-scale map of Cambodia’s coastal habitats and reports early seagrass recovery near anti-trawling structures in the Kep Marine Fisheries Management Area. Read more here.

A deal signals a new chapter for Chagossians, and one of the world’s largest marine no-fishing zones

An agreement signed this year transfers sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago from the U.K. to Mauritius. This vast expanse in the middle of the Indian Ocean is home to exceptional marine biodiversity whose protection might soon fall to Chagossians and Mauritius. Read more here.