Week in Review: Ocean Acidification Causes Young Corals to Develop Deformed Skeletons
1. Ocean Acidification Causes Young Corals to Develop Deformed Skeletons This week, a research article published in Science Advances revealed that young corals develop deformed and porous skeletons when they grow in more acidified waters, potentially making it more difficult for them to establish themselves on the reef and survive to adulthood. Coral […]
Week in Review: Preferred Conservation Polices of Shark Researchers
1. What Do The World’s Leading Shark Researchers Think of Shark Conservation Policy? The University of Miami Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy researchers recently surveyed over 100 scientists and natural resource managers to assess the collective expertise of the world’s largest professional shark research societies. The survey results were published this week in […]
Week in Review: Don’t Shrink Australia’s Ocean Sanctuaries!
1. Don’t Shrink Australia’s Ocean Sanctuaries! The Australian government is currently going through a review of the size of the ocean sanctuaries in hopes to reduce the area to increase areas permitted for commercial fishing. There has not been any scientific review of the implications of rezoning. Australia’s leading scientists are now pushing […]
Week in Review: Has the “Shark Enemy of the Year” Turned Conservationist?
1. Has the “Shark Enemy of the Year” Turned Conservationist? A few weeks ago, Sea Save Foundation and a number of other organizations named Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solis the “Shark Enemy of the Year”. This week, the ocean conservation group MarViva announced the Solis is in support of including more species in […]
Sea Save launches Petition Bringing Costa Rican Turtle Killers to Justice
Costa Rica teenagers filmed themselves torturing and killing an endangered turtle. A video was sent to Sea Save leadership where we posted it on social media. Due to the graphic nature of this video clones of our original video were removed. We launched a petition demanding that Costa Rica bring these people to justice. Eventually, […]
