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Indonesian fisheries ministry imposes new limits on gear and fish harvests

Melati Kaye 4 Mar 2015

Last ditch: Mexico finally gets serious about saving the vaquita

Jeremy Hance 4 Mar 2015

Employing shame for environmental change

Jeremy Hance 3 Mar 2015

Ocean’s 15: meet the species that have vanished forever from our seas

Jeremy Hance 15 Jan 2015

Empty seas? Scientists warn of an industrialized ocean

Jeremy Hance 15 Jan 2015

Casting for another job: will fishers take up a new livelihood?

Amy West 12 Jan 2015

For the first time, Sea Shepherd targets Antarctic toothfish poachers

Jeremy Hance 9 Dec 2014

New marine protected areas key to fighting illegal fishing

Kerry Klein 24 Nov 2014

Of bluefin and pufferfish: 310 species added to IUCN Red List

Jeremy Hance 17 Nov 2014

Russia and China blamed for blocking Antarctic marine reserve

Jeremy Hance 3 Nov 2014

By killing off older fish, overfishing may lead to lost migratory patterns

Shayna Wilson 29 Oct 2014

Saving the survivor: China scrambles to keep the finless porpoise from extinction

Erik Vance 22 Oct 2014

Blue-footed boobies on the decline, plummeting sardine stocks may be to blame

Paul Sutherland 6 Aug 2014

By the bones: herring populations were superabundant before commercial fisheries

Nicholas Barrett 9 Jun 2014

Indonesia pledges to protect manta rays

Loren Bell 21 Feb 2014

35 pictures of the sharkfin trade that will shock and dismay you

Mongabay.com 7 Feb 2014

One quarter of sharks and rays threatened with extinction

Loren Bell 22 Jan 2014

Indonesia’s national airline carrier bans shark fins

Diana Parker 23 Nov 2013

Fishermen get crafty to circumvent shark fin ban

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Nov 2013

The ‘dead’ ocean: eyewitness says overfishing has emptied the Pacific

Oliver Milman 22 Oct 2013

Shark overfishing hurts coral reefs

Mongabay.com 20 Sep 2013

Mesoamerican Reef needs more local support, says report

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 13 Sep 2013

Forgotten species: the arapaima or ‘dinosaur fish’

Jeremy Hance 15 Jul 2013

Yangtze finless porpoise drops to Critically Endangered

Jeremy Hance 7 Jul 2013

San Francisco seafood restaurants go sustainable

Jeremy Hance 2 Jul 2013

Poisonous jellyfish on the rise in the Mediterranean

Giles Tremlett 11 Jun 2013

Conserving the long-neglected freshwater fish of Borneo

Jeremy Hance 11 Jun 2013

Monster shark sparks talk of overfishing

Mongabay.com 6 Jun 2013

Manta ray tourism worth 28 times more than killing them for Traditional Chinese Medicine

Jeremy Hance 3 Jun 2013

Famed bird reappears after 400,000 miles of flight

Mongabay.com 22 May 2013

Biosphere conservation: monumental action is critical to avert global environmental crisis

David Olson 20 May 2013

Industrialized fishing has forced seabirds to change what they eat

Jeremy Hance 14 May 2013

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