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Illegal ‘white gold,’ South Africa’s abalone, pouring into Hong Kong: TRAFFIC

Mongabay.com 13 Feb 2018

Indonesian police bust Chinese nationals with 200 kg of turtle shells

Wahyu Chandra 12 Feb 2018

Code for cod and tech for tuna at the 2018 Fishackathon

Colleen O'Brien 8 Feb 2018
A local volunteer plants a mangrove sapling at the Trapeang Sangke inlet. The best time for transplanting is July, the peak of the wet season when the estuary is least salty. With a full team of volunteers, 4,000 saplings get transplanted in the most productive months. Photo by Matt Blomberg for Mongabay.

Mega developments set to transform a tranquil Cambodian bay

Matt Blomberg 31 Jan 2018

As nesting beaches warm, sea turtle populations are turning female–how scientists found out

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 29 Jan 2018

Indonesia buckles to protests against seine fishing ban

Basten Gokkon 25 Jan 2018

Global warming, pollution supersize the oceans’ oxygen-depleted dead zones

Basten Gokkon 9 Jan 2018

Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2017

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Dec 2017
Members of the Kep provincial government and Fisheries Administration set fire to a mound of banned fishing gear in July 2015. The gear had been confiscated over a period of months from Cambodian and Vietnamese vessels operating illegally in Kep Bay, and was burned in front of a village notorious for abusing the law and the sea. Photo courtesy of MCC.

Building a refuge where trawlers now ravage Cambodia’s marine life

Matt Blomberg 14 Dec 2017
White’s seahorse (Hippocampus whitei). This species is listed as Data Deficient by the IUCN, and was previously listed as Vulnerable, but there have been too few studies to say whether it remains at risk in the wild. Photo by Sylke Rohrlach via Flickr [CC BY-SA 2.0].

Catch-all fisheries are squeezing Asia’s seahorses

Sean Mowbray 1 Dec 2017

Where one predator meets another: tracking sharks and fishing effort

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 25 Nov 2017

First vaquita ‘rescued’ in bid to save the porpoise from extinction

Mongabay.com 25 Oct 2017

Mexico takes ‘unprecedented’ action to save vaquita

Mongabay.com 15 Oct 2017

Trade in silky and thresher sharks now to be strictly regulated

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2017

Second Irrawaddy dolphin death in Borneo linked to fishing nets

Yovanda 3 Oct 2017
Coral flourescing, a reaction to stressful conditions

Capturing the wonder and vulnerability of coral reefs in real-time: Q & A with the director of “Chasing Coral”

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 21 Sep 2017

Citizen scientists use mobile apps to help “green” the ocean

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 20 Sep 2017
Whale shark off the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

DNA barcoding helps identify endangered species from market specimens of sharks and rays

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 6 Sep 2017

Indonesia’s decision to share vessel tracking data ‘ill-advised,’ some say

Basten Gokkon 21 Aug 2017

Measuring fish abundance through acoustics: spawning aggregations are key to improving fishery management plans

Danielle Bettermann 15 Aug 2017

Conservation community failing to use evidence to make decisions, scientists say

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Jul 2017

Meet the new giant sunfish that has evaded scientists for centuries

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Jul 2017
A tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) in the Bahamas. Photo by Bethany Augliere.

Will banning trade in fins help endangered sharks? Some experts say no

Ula Chrobak and Sukee Bennett 21 Jul 2017

Tuna catch monitoring enters the electronic age

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 17 Jul 2017

Phone app lists ‘Good Fish’ and ‘Bad Fish’ to reduce impacts of cyanide fishing

Danielle Bettermann 30 Jun 2017
Sodwana Bay, South Africa. Photo by Greg Asner/www.Divephoto.org.

Can marine reserves help counteract climate change?

Kim Smuga-Otto 8 Jun 2017

Vaquita survival hinges on stopping international swim bladder trade

Mongabay.com 8 Jun 2017

Gabon pledges ‘massive’ protected network for oceans

Mongabay.com 6 Jun 2017

Climate change may be choking the ocean’s oxygen supply, study shows

Mic Smith 5 Jun 2017

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