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In Indonesian waters, filter feeders can ingest dozens to hundreds of microplastic particles every hour

Mongabay.com 20 Nov 2019

Safer at sea: The unexpected benefit of traceability for small-scale fishers

Laura Villadiego 12 Nov 2019

Can a national management plan halt Madagascar’s shark decline?

Edward Carver 11 Nov 2019

Ban on destructive fishing practice helps species recovery in Indonesian park

Basten Gokkon 4 Nov 2019

The tragedy of the fishermen of Ventanas, ‘the Chilean Chernobyl’

Michelle Carrere 29 Oct 2019

’Rampant’ fishing continues as vaquita numbers dwindle

Mongabay.com 29 Oct 2019

Beach clean-ups, community visits, and compensation to fishers build environmental awareness in Nigeria

Linus Unah 25 Oct 2019

Indonesia’s ex-fisheries minister Susi Pudjiastuti leaves big shoes to fill

Basten Gokkon 24 Oct 2019

Indonesian villagers fighting planned mine garner national support

Ian Morse 22 Oct 2019

On the front line of climate change in India’s Sundarbans

Johan Augustin 17 Oct 2019

Education, compensation, and spiritual outreach protect threatened whale sharks

Tariq Engineer 14 Oct 2019

Bali mangrove bay is now a conservation zone, nixing reclamation plan

Basten Gokkon 11 Oct 2019

Madagascar: Opaque foreign fisheries deals leave empty nets at home

Edward Carver 9 Oct 2019

As wildfires roil Sumatra, some villages have abandoned the burning

Taufik Wijaya 3 Oct 2019

Give it back to the gods: Reviving Māori tradition to protect marine life

Monica Evans 27 Sep 2019

Global fisheries deprive local communities of key nutrients, study finds

Stephen Leahy 26 Sep 2019

For one Indonesian village, mangrove restoration has been all upside

Fathul Rakhman 24 Sep 2019

Paradise, polluted: Cook Islands tries to clean up its tourism sector

Monica Evans 23 Sep 2019

15 years after tsunami, Aceh reckons with an inconsistent fisheries recovery

Sonali Prasad 23 Sep 2019

Will a massive marine protected area safeguard Cook Islands’ ocean?

Monica Evans 19 Sep 2019

On an island coveted by miners, villagers prepare to raise a ruckus

Ian Morse 13 Sep 2019

Uncovered coal barges are polluting North Sumatra’s waters

Ayat S. Karokaro 10 Sep 2019

Sri Lanka scales up its domestic campaign to protect sharks with a global push

Malaka Rodrigo 5 Sep 2019

‘No place to hide’ for illegal fishing fleets as surveillance satellites prepare for lift-off

Gavin Haines 30 Aug 2019

For Indonesia’s Kendari Bay, silting is a death sentence

Ian Morse 28 Aug 2019

With record support, rhino rays and world’s fastest sharks get new trade protections

Mongabay.com 28 Aug 2019

Sea Around Us: Global fisheries data and the goose that laid the golden egg (commentary)

Daniel Pauly 13 Aug 2019
Female Cirrhilabrus wakanda.

Stunning new wrasse species underlines need to protect deeper-lying reefs

Nalisha Adams 5 Aug 2019

Reef fish are faring fine in eastern Indonesia, study suggests

Julia John 31 Jul 2019

Information is key – but lacking for sharks and rays in the Western Indian Ocean (commentary)

Dave van Beuningen, Rhett Bennett 18 Jul 2019

Thousands of sharks and rays are likely entangled in plastic polluting Earth’s oceans

Mongabay.com 16 Jul 2019
Fishers on an artificial reef in Jiquilisco Bay. Image by Max Radwin for Mongabay.

Bringing back the fish: Q&A with a repentant blast fisherman

Maxwell Radwin 15 Jul 2019

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