How to volunteer your way to a holiday in Queensland
Exploring a different corner of the world on a holiday is something that’s guaranteed to leave you with lifelong memories. But spending some of your vacation time giving back will take the experience to a whole new level. Read more…
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Coexisting with Nature During a Worldwide Pandemic
The practice venues for competitive pool swimmers have controlled environments that allow for participants to train without interruption. There are wave-resistant lane lines, pace clocks, a black line on the bottom to help swimmers swim straight and a coach on deck overseeing the practice. Read more…
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Green Fins Environmental Materials Now Available in Arabic and Japanese
The Reef-World Foundation – the international coordinator of Green Fins – along with the Chamber of Diving & Watersports (CDWS) and the SDGs Promotion Secretariat (Onna Village Office in Okinawa) is pleased to announce Arabic and Japanese-speaking dive and snorkel operators can now benefit from environmental resources in their first language. Read more…
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How Conservatives Can Embrace GreenEnergy During The Biden Administration
Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election is being seen as a positive development by those who favor renewable forms of energy over fossil fuels. The Trump administration has moved to reverse over 100 climate and environmental rules, considering them burdensome to the fossil fuel industry. Read more…
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HIDDEN: Animals in the Anthropocene Features 40 International Photojournalists and Foreword by Joaquin Phoenix
An unflinching new book of photography documenting our relationship with non-human animals was released today, featuring the work of 40 international photojournalists and a foreword by Academy Award-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix. Read more…
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Wildfire Orphans, Captain Cal & Adopted Sisters, to Depart Soon for New Home at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium
“Captain Cal” by the Cal Fire firefighters who found him limping down a burned-out road in Redding on September 30, 2020, the severely burned orphaned mountain lion cub is now fully recovered, 47 days after he was first rushed to Oakland Zoo’s veterinary hospital by the California Department of Fish & Wildlife (CDFW). Read more…
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Sabah-Based Dive Operator Wins Global Diving Award!
Sabah-based dive operator, Scuba Junkie, has won ‘Best Scuba Diving Dive Centre or Resort in the World for 2020’ in the prestigious Dive Magazine’s annual Travel Awards. The Travel Awards are chosen by votes from readers worldwide, with Scuba Junkie topping a poll that involved more than 1,000 operators from all over the globe. Read more…
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Feature Destination: How to fit Queensland’s top 8 marine life encounters into just 5 days
Home to 1625 species of fish, not to mention sea turtles, whales and dolphins, the Great Barrier Reef is a place where the best of Queensland marine life encounters are pretty much guaranteed. With 2300km of coral reef stretching from Bundaberg all the way up to Cape York to explore, you might be wondering where to begin – or how much time you’ll need to see it all. Read more…
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Australian Scientists Discover 500 Meter Tall Coral Reef in The Great Barrier Reef – First to be Discovered in Over 120 Years
Scientists have discovered a massive detached coral reef in the Great Barrier Reef–the first to be discovered in over 120 years, Schmidt Ocean Institute announced today. Measuring more than 500m high–taller than the Empire State Building, the Sydney Tower, and the Petronas Twin Towers–the reef was discovered by Australian scientists aboard Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor, currently on a 12-month exploration of the ocean surrounding Australia. Read more…
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Bobtail Squid – Jack’s January Underwater Photograph
There is a whole different world underwater, one filled with enchanting and otherworldly flora and fauna. It’s one of the reasons why we love scuba diving. One of the many unique sea creatures that you may run into is the bobtail squid, which can be found in the shallow coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean as well as parts of the Indian Ocean. Read more…
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The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey by Deborah Cramer
In the award-winning The Narrow Edge, author Deborah Cramer accompanies tiny, endangered shorebirds along their extraordinary migration from one end of the earth to the other, witnessing the challenges the birds face along an increasingly congested and fragile shore, and how their lives, and ours, depend on an ancient animal, the horseshoe crab. Read more…
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The FREE Weekly Conservation Post and Jobs List
For 15 years the Global Marine Community Weekly Conservation Post has been emailing round-up of events, jobs, and announcements in ocean conservation. Learn more and subscribe free!
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Interview with Maui Marine Scientist Darla White
While acting as the Special Projects Coordinator of Maui’s Division of Aquatic Resources, marine scientist Darla White met to chat at Sip Me – a local coffee shop in Upcountry Maui – to talk about her efforts to promote coral reef health, what it’s like to be part of the island’s scientific community, and what thrills her about fish. Read more…
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Visiting Bangkok’s Pata Zoo, now known for Cher’s attempt to rehome resident gorilla.
Cher recently made a plea for the rehoming of the gorilla Bua Noi. Brought to Thailand in 1988, the gorilla lived nearly her entire life behind bars and glass in this dilapidated zoo above a shopping mall in Bangkok. I first heard about the Pata Zoo a few years ago and in an effort to bring more attention to it, I showed up with my Sony Alpha camera hidden in my bag. Read more…
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The most beautiful beaches in Queensland
As a state with 6,973 km of coastline, it’s safe to say, we have no shortage of Queensland beaches for you to explore. What our beaches share in common – sun, salt and sand – are also worlds apart in their differences. Read more…
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The Incredible, Recent, Global Rise in the Stranding of Marine Mammals
During late September 2020, Australia experienced the largest mass stranding of whales in the history of that country. Two weeks later, during early October, the stranding of 7,000 cape fur seals on the coast of Namibia was identified as a major marine mammal stranding event. Disturbingly, this was followed one month later by 100 pilot whales beaching themselves on the coast of Sri Lanka. Read more…
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Fish Carcasses Deliver Toxic Mercury Pollution to The Deepest Ocean Trenches
The sinking carcasses of fish from near-surface waters deliver toxic mercury pollution to the most remote and inaccessible parts of the world’s oceans, including the deepest spot of them all: the 36,000-foot-deep Mariana Trench in the northwest Pacific. Read more…
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Will Fall Travels Be Possible This Year? A Coronavirus Update
As of right now, everything is a bit up in the air. We don’t know what the next month will bring as the coronavirus pandemic continues to flare up in certain areas of the country and calm down in others. However, we are hopeful about traveling in the fall. Read more…
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Oceans: An Overlooked Oasis
Conservation is a curious thing. I wish it weren’t necessary, even if that did put me out of a job. Unfortunately, the human race is exploiting nature for everything it’s worth, putting profit before the planet. Overconsumption of wild habitats, animals and natural resources has pushed ecosystems and biodiversity to the brink of collapse. Read more…
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Domestic, Green-Rated Salmon Making its way to West Coast Grocery Stores
Lusamerica Foods, a major seafood wholesaler in the Western United States, started distributing green-rated, domestic salmon to over 200 grocery stores in California. The salmon producer, Atlantic Sapphire, has been raising Atlantic salmon in land-based tanks since 2010 out of their Denmark plant, however, they have since built an additional production centre in Miami, FL. Read more…
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OMA to design Miami Beach’s First Underwater Public Sculpture Park and Artificial Reef in 2021
BlueLab Preservation Society reveals plans for The ReefLine, a new 7-mile underwater public sculpture park, snorkel trail, and artificial reef located off Miami Beach’s shoreline. The large-scale environmental public art project has been conceived by cultural placemaker Ximena Caminos who will serve as the project’s Artistic Director. Read more…
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This piece was prepared online by Panuruji Kenta, Publisher, SEVENSEAS Media