Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
Providing science-based solutions to protect and restore ocean health
Two days of diving and our coral reef research is well underway in Isle de Pins, New Caledonia. Although sea conditions were very murky, we explored three lagoonal patch reefs yesterday and successfully completed our standardized coral, benthic and fish …
Global Reef Expedition: Mission Bahamas is the culmination of the Living Ocean Foundation’s Bahamas coral reef research. Narrated by Bahamas National Trust’s Krista Sherman, the film highlights the importance of Bahamian reefs and urges a call to action to take …
Our 17th mission of the Global Reef Expedition is to New Caledonia, a special collectivity (a former territory under special status) of France located in the southwest Pacific about 1200 km from Australia, and home to some of the most …
This Jamaica Coral Reefs Crisis video reveals how conservationists and fishermen in Jamaica work together to help restore Jamaica’s coral reefs. Once known as the jewels of the Caribbean, Jamaica’s reefs declined over decades. Hurricanes, disease, and pollution have all …
In this Caribbean Coral Reefs video, learn why coral reefs in the Caribbean are disappearing and what measures are being taken to preserve them. Is it too late to save Caribbean coral reefs?
Worldwide, over 70% of all fish species have been exploited or depleted. This not only affects people, but our coral reefs as well. Fish Stocks, Overfishing, and Jamaican Coral Reefs Find out how overfishing has effected local fisherman, their fish …
This GoPro Flyover of Fijian Reefs shows the beautiful coral reefs of the Fiji Islands through the eyes of a GoPro camera aboard the Golden Fleet’s amphibious aircraft, the Golden Eye.
Floating along above the reef on our coral surveys here in Tonga, we are occasionally distracted by flashes of bright colors crawling along the reef. These bright colors come from a group of sea slugs called nudibranchs. For the uninitiated, …
For thousands of years, Tongan fishing used traditional outrigger canoes known as popao. With modern technology, it is rare to see these traditional fishing boats and it’s even rarer to see traditional fishing gear being used; however, there are still …
