Save Our Seas Foundation
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The Save Our Seas Foundation supports marine projects in the areas of conservation, awareness, research and education.
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The reefs surrounding D'Arros Island teem with life, a refuge for the interconnected marine ecosystems found here. On this coral reef, a grey reef shark is foregrounded by a school of snappers as it swims by.
📷: Simon Hilbourne
📷: Simon Hilbourne
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The reefs surrounding D'Arros Island teem with life, a refuge for the interconnected marine ecosystems found here. On this coral reef, a grey reef shark is foregrounded by a school of snappers as it swims by.
📷: Simon Hilbourne
📷: Simon Hilbourne
A true oddity of the sea, the red-lipped batfish has evolved adaptations perfect for a life on the seafloor. Its pectoral and pelvic fins have evolved into 'legs' that allow it to waddle along the bottom.
November 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
A true oddity of the sea, the red-lipped batfish has evolved adaptations perfect for a life on the seafloor. Its pectoral and pelvic fins have evolved into 'legs' that allow it to waddle along the bottom.
Nearly all species of wedgefishes and giant guitarfishes are critically endangered. But with strong science measuring the impact of policy, and new genetic tools available to border officials, there is every chance that these 'rhino rays' can recover.
Infographic by Kelsey Manners Dickson
Infographic by Kelsey Manners Dickson
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Nearly all species of wedgefishes and giant guitarfishes are critically endangered. But with strong science measuring the impact of policy, and new genetic tools available to border officials, there is every chance that these 'rhino rays' can recover.
Infographic by Kelsey Manners Dickson
Infographic by Kelsey Manners Dickson
The cownose ray uses electroreception to search sandy seafloors for burrowing prey, like clams. Then, using its long pectoral fins, it stirs up the sediment and uncovers its prey. It grabs it with its mouth, crushing it between its strong, plate-like teeth.
📷: Nick Filmalter
📷: Nick Filmalter
November 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The cownose ray uses electroreception to search sandy seafloors for burrowing prey, like clams. Then, using its long pectoral fins, it stirs up the sediment and uncovers its prey. It grabs it with its mouth, crushing it between its strong, plate-like teeth.
📷: Nick Filmalter
📷: Nick Filmalter
Mantis shrimp eyes are absolute marvels of evolution! They are able to see a spectrum beyond human vision. While we have only three types of colour-receptive cones (red, green and blue), mantis shrimp have SIXTEEN colour-receptive cones! They are able to see colours we don't even know exist. 🤯
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Mantis shrimp eyes are absolute marvels of evolution! They are able to see a spectrum beyond human vision. While we have only three types of colour-receptive cones (red, green and blue), mantis shrimp have SIXTEEN colour-receptive cones! They are able to see colours we don't even know exist. 🤯
Fisheries kill around 265,000 rays each year, researchers estimate - mostly in small-scale fisheries. Risk is highest in India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Peru, and Myanmar. Reef manta rays are particularly vulnerable to overfishing: their rate of reproduction is slow.
📷: Jasmine Corbett
📷: Jasmine Corbett
November 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Fisheries kill around 265,000 rays each year, researchers estimate - mostly in small-scale fisheries. Risk is highest in India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Peru, and Myanmar. Reef manta rays are particularly vulnerable to overfishing: their rate of reproduction is slow.
📷: Jasmine Corbett
📷: Jasmine Corbett
On this week's World Of Sharks podcast episode, Isla Hodgson is joined by Dr Yannis Papastamatiou. They get to talking about his work using cutting-edge technology to explore how sharks move, forage, and interact with one another.
Listen here: saveourseas.com/worldofshark...
Listen here: saveourseas.com/worldofshark...
November 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
On this week's World Of Sharks podcast episode, Isla Hodgson is joined by Dr Yannis Papastamatiou. They get to talking about his work using cutting-edge technology to explore how sharks move, forage, and interact with one another.
Listen here: saveourseas.com/worldofshark...
Listen here: saveourseas.com/worldofshark...
A new global study has revealed the staggering toll of exploitation on manta and devil rays (mobulids), with over 264,000 individuals caught and killed every year. Mobulid rays are now among the most threatened of all sharks and rays.
November 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
A new global study has revealed the staggering toll of exploitation on manta and devil rays (mobulids), with over 264,000 individuals caught and killed every year. Mobulid rays are now among the most threatened of all sharks and rays.
Wading along the shore on Aldabra, this grey heron is framed in the endless expanse of blue wilderness, where sunlight powders the sky.
📷: Dan Beecham
📷: Dan Beecham
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Wading along the shore on Aldabra, this grey heron is framed in the endless expanse of blue wilderness, where sunlight powders the sky.
📷: Dan Beecham
📷: Dan Beecham
Juvenile emperor red snappers are often found sheltering among the spines of radiant sea urchins. The venomous spines of the urchin offer cover from predators for these young fish in the more vulnerable stage of their life until they’re large enough to venture into deeper waters to live as adults.
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Juvenile emperor red snappers are often found sheltering among the spines of radiant sea urchins. The venomous spines of the urchin offer cover from predators for these young fish in the more vulnerable stage of their life until they’re large enough to venture into deeper waters to live as adults.
As we fast approach a conservation tipping point for sharks and rays, the upcoming CITES CoP20 is an opportunity for leaders to vote for stronger protections and to bring unregulated trade under international control.
Infographic by Kelsey Manners Dickson | © SOSF
#CITESCoP20
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Infographic by Kelsey Manners Dickson | © SOSF
#CITESCoP20
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November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
As we fast approach a conservation tipping point for sharks and rays, the upcoming CITES CoP20 is an opportunity for leaders to vote for stronger protections and to bring unregulated trade under international control.
Infographic by Kelsey Manners Dickson | © SOSF
#CITESCoP20
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Infographic by Kelsey Manners Dickson | © SOSF
#CITESCoP20
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Perhaps not the nudibranch you're used to: this Melibe viridis, filmed in Indonesia, has a rather peculiar mouth. It has an oral veil, an expandable hood used for hunting. Using their veil as a fish net, they scour the seafloor and seagrass blades for small crustaceans.
November 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Perhaps not the nudibranch you're used to: this Melibe viridis, filmed in Indonesia, has a rather peculiar mouth. It has an oral veil, an expandable hood used for hunting. Using their veil as a fish net, they scour the seafloor and seagrass blades for small crustaceans.
New Study Reveals Persistent Illegal Trade in Protected Sharks with Calls to Strengthen World’s Wildlife-Trade Treaty to Prevent Extinctions.
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🎥: Byron Dilkes
🎥: Open Planet Studios | Silverback Films
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🎥: Byron Dilkes
🎥: Open Planet Studios | Silverback Films
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
New Study Reveals Persistent Illegal Trade in Protected Sharks with Calls to Strengthen World’s Wildlife-Trade Treaty to Prevent Extinctions.
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🎥: Byron Dilkes
🎥: Open Planet Studios | Silverback Films
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🎥: Byron Dilkes
🎥: Open Planet Studios | Silverback Films
DNA analysis from Hong Kong’s shark-fin markets reveals massive ongoing trade in critically endangered species such as oceanic whitetip and hammerhead sharks. The data show that tougher enforcement of CITES and fisheries rules is needed worldwide.
📷: Shawn Heinrichs
📷: James Morgan
📷: Shawn Heinrichs
📷: James Morgan
November 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
DNA analysis from Hong Kong’s shark-fin markets reveals massive ongoing trade in critically endangered species such as oceanic whitetip and hammerhead sharks. The data show that tougher enforcement of CITES and fisheries rules is needed worldwide.
📷: Shawn Heinrichs
📷: James Morgan
📷: Shawn Heinrichs
📷: James Morgan
Climate change is driving coral reefs beyond their tipping point, pushing these vulnerable systems harder than they can push back. And there's a domino effect - marine species like turtles risk losing their habitat and food sources, swinging life on the reef into imbalance.
🎥: Rainer von Brandis
🎥: Rainer von Brandis
November 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Climate change is driving coral reefs beyond their tipping point, pushing these vulnerable systems harder than they can push back. And there's a domino effect - marine species like turtles risk losing their habitat and food sources, swinging life on the reef into imbalance.
🎥: Rainer von Brandis
🎥: Rainer von Brandis
A conservation victory for green sea turtles was announced: a downgrade of the conservation status from Endangered to Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
🎥: Open Planet Studios | Silverback Films & Riverbank Studios
🎥: Jade Schultz
🎥: Moose
🎥: Sebastian Staines
🎥: Open Planet Studios | Silverback Films & Riverbank Studios
🎥: Jade Schultz
🎥: Moose
🎥: Sebastian Staines
November 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
A conservation victory for green sea turtles was announced: a downgrade of the conservation status from Endangered to Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
🎥: Open Planet Studios | Silverback Films & Riverbank Studios
🎥: Jade Schultz
🎥: Moose
🎥: Sebastian Staines
🎥: Open Planet Studios | Silverback Films & Riverbank Studios
🎥: Jade Schultz
🎥: Moose
🎥: Sebastian Staines
As the Mother City welcomes warmer days, the ocean splashed across Cape Town's architecture becomes an exciting reminder that the city harbours more than nightlife and urban adventure.
@pangeaseed.bsky.social's Sea Walls
📷: Yoshi Yanagita
🎨: Sonny Behan, Dulk, Motelseven, Yeye Weller
@pangeaseed.bsky.social's Sea Walls
📷: Yoshi Yanagita
🎨: Sonny Behan, Dulk, Motelseven, Yeye Weller
November 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
As the Mother City welcomes warmer days, the ocean splashed across Cape Town's architecture becomes an exciting reminder that the city harbours more than nightlife and urban adventure.
@pangeaseed.bsky.social's Sea Walls
📷: Yoshi Yanagita
🎨: Sonny Behan, Dulk, Motelseven, Yeye Weller
@pangeaseed.bsky.social's Sea Walls
📷: Yoshi Yanagita
🎨: Sonny Behan, Dulk, Motelseven, Yeye Weller
Found along the seafloor of every ocean in the world, sea urchins are not the simple, stationary pin-cushions that some people believe them to be. They have specialised adaptations which include many tiny tube feet, tentacles, that sprout amongst their sharp spines.
November 4, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Found along the seafloor of every ocean in the world, sea urchins are not the simple, stationary pin-cushions that some people believe them to be. They have specialised adaptations which include many tiny tube feet, tentacles, that sprout amongst their sharp spines.
Unblinking eyes, prominent nostrils and a gaping mouth - giant moray eels are not easily missed on reefs. Opening and closing their mouths pumps water across their gills, and their powerful jaws hide a mouth lined with rows of inward-pointing teeth.
October 31, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Unblinking eyes, prominent nostrils and a gaping mouth - giant moray eels are not easily missed on reefs. Opening and closing their mouths pumps water across their gills, and their powerful jaws hide a mouth lined with rows of inward-pointing teeth.
Happy Halloween!
What sharks and rays can you identify trick or treating?
Illustration by Anju Sabu - Oh, Dakuwaqa!
What sharks and rays can you identify trick or treating?
Illustration by Anju Sabu - Oh, Dakuwaqa!
October 31, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Happy Halloween!
What sharks and rays can you identify trick or treating?
Illustration by Anju Sabu - Oh, Dakuwaqa!
What sharks and rays can you identify trick or treating?
Illustration by Anju Sabu - Oh, Dakuwaqa!
Is it a bird, or is it a plane?
No, it's a Munk's pygmy devil ray.
Limited to the coastal waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean, from the Sea of Cortez in Mexico, to Peru, these devil rays are often found forming large, highly mobile aggregations in their range.
📷: Simon Hilbourne
No, it's a Munk's pygmy devil ray.
Limited to the coastal waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean, from the Sea of Cortez in Mexico, to Peru, these devil rays are often found forming large, highly mobile aggregations in their range.
📷: Simon Hilbourne
October 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Is it a bird, or is it a plane?
No, it's a Munk's pygmy devil ray.
Limited to the coastal waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean, from the Sea of Cortez in Mexico, to Peru, these devil rays are often found forming large, highly mobile aggregations in their range.
📷: Simon Hilbourne
No, it's a Munk's pygmy devil ray.
Limited to the coastal waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean, from the Sea of Cortez in Mexico, to Peru, these devil rays are often found forming large, highly mobile aggregations in their range.
📷: Simon Hilbourne
On this week's #WoS podcast episode, we journey into the darkness with deep-sea legend Dr @britfinucci. A far from barren landscape, we meet the small-but-ferocious prickly dogfish, the luminous lanternsharks, and the ancient and toothy frilled sharks.
Listen here: saveourseas.com/worldofshark...
Listen here: saveourseas.com/worldofshark...
October 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
On this week's #WoS podcast episode, we journey into the darkness with deep-sea legend Dr @britfinucci. A far from barren landscape, we meet the small-but-ferocious prickly dogfish, the luminous lanternsharks, and the ancient and toothy frilled sharks.
Listen here: saveourseas.com/worldofshark...
Listen here: saveourseas.com/worldofshark...
The oceanic manta ray is listed as Endangered, threatened by pressures such as overfishing and habitat loss. Studying their movements, behaviour, and habitats is vital to understanding how best to protect them, to ensure these giants continue to exist.
🎥: Byron Dilkes
🎥: Byron Dilkes
October 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The oceanic manta ray is listed as Endangered, threatened by pressures such as overfishing and habitat loss. Studying their movements, behaviour, and habitats is vital to understanding how best to protect them, to ensure these giants continue to exist.
🎥: Byron Dilkes
🎥: Byron Dilkes
This ragged-tooth shark has a hitchhiker caught between its teeth, but not for long. These sharks possess a conveyor belt of teeth, arranged in rows that steadily shift forward as new ones grow behind them. It’s a brilliant adaptation with a lifetime supply of fresh, razor-sharp replacements.
October 27, 2025 at 7:39 AM
This ragged-tooth shark has a hitchhiker caught between its teeth, but not for long. These sharks possess a conveyor belt of teeth, arranged in rows that steadily shift forward as new ones grow behind them. It’s a brilliant adaptation with a lifetime supply of fresh, razor-sharp replacements.
Calling all educators, storytellers, creatives and science communicators!
We want you to share your knowledge and passion for science communication at next year's Sharks International 2026 symposium, where a dedicated Science Communication session will be held.
We want you to share your knowledge and passion for science communication at next year's Sharks International 2026 symposium, where a dedicated Science Communication session will be held.
October 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Calling all educators, storytellers, creatives and science communicators!
We want you to share your knowledge and passion for science communication at next year's Sharks International 2026 symposium, where a dedicated Science Communication session will be held.
We want you to share your knowledge and passion for science communication at next year's Sharks International 2026 symposium, where a dedicated Science Communication session will be held.