The Year in Pictures 2016

Check out Living Oceans Foundation Year in Pictures 2016 of our most memorable moments and events of the year: the Nekton launch, filming in Dakar, the UNESCO Marine Site Manager’s Conference, B.A.M. / J.A.M.I.N. Year-2 Program Launch, and our annual …

Yachting With an Eco-conscience

When science and superyachts come together, great things can happen. This article featured in the October 2016 issue of ShowBoats International Magazine highlights the Foundation’s use of HRH Prince Khaled bin Sultan’s Golden Fleet to further coral reef research and …

Coral Reef Education Portal Wins Prestigious W3 Award

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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 Award honors outstanding websites, web marketing, web video, mobile sites, …

Meet the Coral Reef Experts

During the Cay Sal Bank Mission, we conducted a series of interviews with some of the team members while aboard the M/Y Golden Shadow to learn more about their backgrounds, as well as get their reflections on their role during …

2016 Blue Ocean Film Festival Finalists

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The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is thrilled to announce that two of our films have been selected as finalists in the world’s largest ocean film and conservation summit, the Blue Ocean Film Festival! The Blue Ocean Film Festival …

BAM Fall 2016

Join along with Living Oceans Foundation Education Director, Amy Heemsoth, as she recounts in these photos her trip back to the Bahamas to kick-off the 2016-2017 Bahamas Awareness of Mangroves (B.A.M.) program with some fantastic new additions: a NOAA Knauss …

Monitoring and Managing Mangroves

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Mangrove Education and Restoration Program Blog Today, it’s absolutely beautiful weather in Abaco, Bahamas. It’s sunny outside and there is a gentle breeze wrestling the branches of the mangrove trees. Along the waterline of the mangroves, groups of students from Forest Heights Academy …

Bahamas Mangrove Program Year 2 Pilot

In this second year of our Bahamian Awareness of Mangroves (B.A.M.) program, we will work with grade 11 Biology students who participated in the first year program to monitor and manage mangroves, again through project-based learning. Students will apply the …

B.A.M.: My Introduction to the Bahamas

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Mangrove Education and Restoration Program Blog Symone Johnson is a NOAA Knauss Fellow who is volunteering with KSLOF for the first phase of our mangrove education and restoration programs in the Caribbean in order to learn about managing, implementing, and …