Sea Stars
See some of the most beautiful sea stars and starfish that we have come across in our journeys.
Features
Mapping The Blue
GIS Mapping for Cook Islands Mega Marine Park In 2012, the Cook Islands announced a Mega Marine Park, what was, at the time, the biggest marine park on Earth. This is one of the most awesome places on the planet …
Fisheries Data Goes High-Tech in Tonga
By Alison Barrat and Steve Saul Roughly one billion people around the world depend on fish from the sea for protein, this makes it vital to understand and manage fish stocks properly. Although there are many factors that affect fish …
Red Coral: What’s the Future?
By Alison Barrat Clear, scientific information helps policy makers to make decisions about marine management, but it’s rare that they keep everyone happy. But what about when the information is clouded with differing opinions, how do you make decisions that …
The Red Sea Atlas
By Gwilym Rowlands In 2005 the Foundation first started mapping offshore reefs in the Saudi Arabian Red Sea. We’ve been working for years to collect data about the shape, structure, and species that make up these reefs and transforming it …
Crown of Thorns Starfish (COTS) Crisis
The venomous thorn-like spines that protect this crown of thorns starfish are the least of our problems – this species is destroying coral reefs in many parts of the world due to an imbalance in the oceans – find out …
Passion Drives Education and Conservation
By Amy Heemsoth Living Oceans Marine Education Team Promotes Coral Conservation From September 10th to October 3rd 2013, we were working in Tonga. In addition to underwater research, marine education about coral conservation was a large part of our mission …
Conservation Photography
By Alison Barrat From September 2012 to May 2013 we conducted one of the most extensive assessments of French Polynesian reef systems ever done. Our Scientists researched in four of the five archipelagos, Society Islands, Tuamotu, Gambier and the Austral Islands. These research missions …
COTS: Aitutaki
By James Barrat In May 2013, when the science team of the Khaled Bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation plunged into the waters surrounding Aitutaki in the Cook Islands, we discovered a reef in crises. Something had damaged between 80 and …
Fearless Sharks and Gender Changing Fish
When we set out to survey the reefs on Pedro Bank, Jamaica, we didn’t know that we were going to find two fish mysteries to solve: one about small stoplight parrotfishes and the other about much larger nurse sharks … …
