2017 Science Without Borders® Challenge Winners!

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Written by Amy Heemsoth Students from New Zealand and Russia Win First Place We are proud to announce the winners of the 2017 Science Without Borders® Challenge, an international student art competition that highlights important ocean conservation issues. The theme for this …

2016 Annual Report

This past year was a very different year for the Foundation’s staff, it was the first year in many that we were not occupied with field work aboard our research vessel in some far-flung corner of the world. Having completed …

B.A.M. Spring 2017

Check out the photos from the final phase of the 2016-2017 Bahamas Awareness of Mangroves (B.A.M.) program. Thanks to all the students and teachers who participated in this year’s B.A.M. program who helped to restore and monitor the mangrove forest in Abaco, …

The Big Reveal – Fungi or Not

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It’s been three weeks since we last met with the second year B.A.M. students at Forest Heights Academy. During our last session, the students plated their potentially diseased red mangrove leaves in agar. Since Ryann Rossi and I returned to the …

Not Just an Art Contest

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By Amy Heemsoth Over the past couple of years, we have received some really compelling and inspirational pieces of artwork as part of the Science without Borders® Challenge, an international conservation art contest. During last year’s contest, we met an …

A Conversation with Conservation Photographer Michele Westmorland

By Elizabeth Rauer & Michele Westmorland   During the 2016 WiLDSPEAK event in Washington DC, we had a chance to speak with conservation photographer Michele Westmorland about what it was like to join the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation on …

Coral Reef Education Portal Wins Prestigious W3 Award

The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is proud to announce that our Coral Reef Education Portal won the 2016 W3 Award for Environmental Awareness. Receiving nearly 5,000 entries, the W3 Awards honors outstanding websites, web marketing, web video, mobile sites, …