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Visitors are silhouetted against a dolphin exhibit on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at the Marine Life Park at Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore.

Singapore resort said to halt controversial dolphin sourcing, breeding

Robin Hicks 31 Mar 2026
Pyramid butterflyfish (Hemitaurichthys polylepis) around the island of Bali in Indonesia.

Trade in marine fish for aquariums includes threatened species, lacks oversight: Study

Edward Carver 18 Nov 2025
Gayatri Reksodihardjo-Lilley. Photo by Surya Risuana.

Gayatri Reksodihardjo-Lilley, who helped Indonesian communities restore their reefs, has died

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Nov 2025
An adult leopard shark at the North Stradbroke Island summer aggregation site in Australia. Photo by MV Erdmann

Can we undo extinction? A growing effort to restore lost sharks

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Aug 2025
Leopard shark. Photo by Alex Kydd.

Can we undo extinction? A growing effort to restore lost sharks

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Aug 2025

Predatory snakehead fish poses invasive threat after sighting in Sri Lanka reservoir

Malaka Rodrigo 28 Jun 2025
The team make containers to store the fish out of plastic tubes.

To save a Honduran reef, locals craft custom gear and hunt invasive lionfish

Mongabay.com 13 Mar 2025
Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

From the Amazon to the Himalayas, an invasive catfish makes its Nepal debut

Abhaya Raj Joshi 20 Jun 2024

Popular aquarium fish from Thailand and Myanmar is new-to-science species

Liz Kimbrough 14 Jul 2023
A suckermouth catfish.

Bangladesh bans suckermouth catfish in light of threats to native fish species

Abu Siddique 23 Feb 2023

Amid Mexico’s Day of the Dead, a fish declared extinct comes back to life

Liz Kimbrough 8 Nov 2022
Clownfish can reportedly lay clutches of over 1000 eggs.

Pilot program tries to get U.S. aquariums to raise their own fish, not catch them

Ashley Stumvoll 21 Apr 2022
ransgenic zebrafish expressing different fluorescent colours.

GM fish engineered to glow in the dark are found in Brazil creeks

Sue Branford 6 Apr 2022

Spectacular new fish species is first to be named by Maldivian scientist

Liz Kimbrough 11 Mar 2022

Genetic diversity of Sri Lanka’s ‘spa fish’ highlights need for informed conservation

Malaka Rodrigo 25 May 2021

Hawaiian reefs lost almost half their fish to pollution and fishing

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Sep 2020

Gray areas and weak policies mar lucrative Asian trade in live reef fish

Keith Anthony Fabro 6 Jul 2020

In Sri Lanka, the hunt is on for alien fish in native lakes

Malaka Rodrigo 6 Jul 2020

How to make sure your aquarium fish are ethical (commentary)

Robert Woods 3 Jul 2019

Bronx Zoo director says zoos are more relevant to conservation than ever

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jun 2019

Canada passes ‘Free Willy’ bill to ban captivity of all whales, dolphins

Mongabay.com 11 Jun 2019

A fishy translocation highlights dangers of ‘taxonomic inflation’

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 16 Apr 2019

Six new catfish species, facial tentacles and all, described in Amazon

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2019

Warmer waters shrink krill habitat around Antarctica

Mongabay.com 30 Jan 2019

Manatees to make a comeback in Guadeloupe for the first time in over a century

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Aug 2016

Popular pet fish listed as “threatened” under Endangered Species Act

Ret Talbot 21 Jan 2016

Quantifying the aquarium trade to help it become more sustainable

Ret Talbot 20 Jan 2016

Cupid’s syringe: A love potion for troubled amphibians

Geoffrey Giller 15 Oct 2015

Animals bark, screech, and howl for action on global warming (PHOTOS)

Jeremy Hance 2 Jun 2014

The quiet zoo revolution

Jeremy Hance 19 May 2014

Zoos join fossil fuel divestment movement

Jeremy Hance 5 Nov 2013

98% of marine fish headed for the aquarium trade die within a year in the Philippines

Natalie Millar 22 Oct 2013

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