New Study Highlights Madagascar As a Global Hotspot for Endangered Whale Shark
Whale sharks, an endangered species, are the world’s largest fish More than 400 individual whale sharks were identified from Madagascar[…]
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Category: Stories from the Sea
Island Conservationists Identify Key Barriers to Meeting Biodiversity Targets
Islands are biodiversity hotspots yet, paradoxically, are also extinction hotspots. The impacts of invasive alien species, habitat loss and climate[…]
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Congress on Track to Approve Catastrophic Investment in Northwest Hatcheries, Undermining Wild Salmon Recovery
This week, the U.S. House of Representatives released a text of the draft reconciliation bill revealing Congress is on track to make[…]
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A Story of Amazing Jellyfishes by Morè Marianna
It is commonly known as the fried egg jellyfish, and no other name would have been more appropriate. It has[…]
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Small-Scale Tuna Sector Push for ‘Polluter Pays’ Principle in Atlantic
Concerns have been building since bigeye tuna was formally declared overfished by scientists of the International Commission for the Conservation[…]
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SAWFISH NEWS: New Global Shark and Ray Assessment Underscores Threats to Sawfish by guest author Sonja Fordham, Shark Advocates International
By Tonya Wiley The world’s sawfishes are rightfully once again in the global conservation spotlight as a new analysis published[…]
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IFAW Statement on NOAA Ruling Regarding Gear Modifications to Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan
New Rule Points to More Promising Future for “Ropeless” Fishing to help save Critically Endangered North Atlantic Right Whales Danielle[…]
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Conservation Groups Challenge Washington’s Artificial “Fix” to Southern Resident Killer Whale and Salmon Recovery
The conservation organizations Wild Fish Conservancy and The Conservation Angler filed suit against the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife[…]
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Federal Court Finds NOAA’s Harvest Mitigation Proposal Violated Endangered Species Act Protections for Wild Chinook and Southern Resident Killer Whales
A groundbreaking new ruling from the federal court in Seattle is calling into question the continuation of decades of unsustainable[…]
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Fisheries Interactions More Threatening to Maui Nui Dolphins than Previously Thought
Researchers at Pacific Whale Foundation (PWF), a nonprofit organization protecting the ocean through science and advocacy since 1980, dove deep below the[…]
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