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New protections announced for Galápagos Islands and beyond at COP26

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 Nov 2021
Beach at Cabo Pulmo National Marine Park

Local communities saved Cabo Pulmo with a national park. Then came the tourists.

Maxwell Radwin 30 Oct 2021
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Pingers on fishing nets found to save river dolphins in Indonesian Borneo

Carolyn Cowan 29 Oct 2021

Changes to global fisheries subsidies could level the playing field for traditional coastline communities

Gladstone Taylor 18 Oct 2021
The aquatic life of the San Pedro Mártir River in Tabasco, Mexico, finds refuge in the submerged roots of the red mangrove forests. Image by Octavio Aburto.

Inland mangroves reveal a tumultuous climatic past — and hint at our future

John Cannon 14 Oct 2021

Indonesia urged to improve policies protecting fishing vessel workers

M Ambari, Yogi Eka Sahputra 12 Oct 2021

Two threatened whale groups had a mini baby boom, but not because of lockdown

Laurel Neme 5 Oct 2021

Beached whale shark in Indonesia reportedly cut up by locals to eat

Mongabay.com 30 Sep 2021
Crocodile-WWF

Snapshot of hatchlings raises hopes for Siamese crocs in northeast Cambodia

Carolyn Cowan 24 Sep 2021

11 Mongabay investigations in two years. Here’s what we found

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Sep 2021

With coral cover halved, curbing climate change is only way to slow the loss

Malavika Vyawahare 17 Sep 2021

Faroe Islands to evaluate traditional hunt after slaughter of 1,400 dolphins

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Sep 2021

For sustainable global fisheries, watchdogs focus on onshore beneficial owners

Basten Gokkon 17 Sep 2021
Yellowfin tuna image by Martin Gil Gallo. via the Creative Commons, CC-By-NC.

Are tuna doing as well as latest extinction risk assessments suggest? It’s complicated

Mike Gaworecki 15 Sep 2021

Marine experts flag new Peru marine reserve that allows industrial fishing

Yvette Sierra Praeli 14 Sep 2021

Worked to death: How a Chinese tuna juggernaut crushed its Indonesian workers

Philip Jacobson, Basten Gokkon, Taufik Wijaya, Seulki Lee, Makoto Watanabe, Annelise Giseburt 13 Sep 2021

Indonesia lays out plan to rescue 15 lakes under pressure from human activity

Basten Gokkon 10 Sep 2021
Rusting fishing trawler Fu Hai Yu 1111 in Sierra Leonean Waters. Image by Pierre Gleizes / Greenpeace

Industrial fishing harbor plan raises a stink in Sierra Leone

Mohamed Fofanah 7 Sep 2021

New research hopes to shine a light on wedgefish, the ‘pangolin of the ocean’

Caroline Chebet 7 Sep 2021
Laysan albatross

Not just sea life: Migratory fish, birds and mammals also fall foul of plastic

Carolyn Cowan 3 Sep 2021

Will ‘ropeless’ fishing gear be seaworthy in time to save endangered whales?

John Cannon 2 Sep 2021

Indonesia’s newly minted investigators to go after illegal fishing kingpins

Basten Gokkon 1 Sep 2021

Study shows how sustainable livelihood programs for Indonesian fishers can succeed

Cassie Freund 26 Aug 2021

On board Ghana’s trawlers, claims of human rights abuses and illegal fishing

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Aug 2021

Kenya port and ship-breaking projects threaten livelihoods and environment

Anthony Langat 25 Aug 2021

Stranded dugong in Indonesia reportedly cut up for traditional medicine

Nurdin Tubaka 20 Aug 2021
Sesan River, Cambodia

Cambodian dam a ‘disaster’ for local communities, rights group says

Carolyn Cowan 18 Aug 2021

Trawling bycatch increases risk of marine life extinction in Brazil

Aldem Bourscheit 18 Aug 2021

Brazil a wreck on trawling control

Aldem Bourscheit 17 Aug 2021

X-Press Pearl sinking shines a light on seafood safety in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 17 Aug 2021

China joins the foreign fleets quietly exploiting Madagascar’s waters

Edward Carver 16 Aug 2021
Hammerheads. Photo credit: Yves Lefèvre

Protecting Colombia’s shark paradise: Q&A with Sandra Bessudo

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Aug 2021

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