Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
Providing science-based solutions to protect and restore ocean health
Do you REALLY know… about the overfishing crisis? In this Overfishing Crisis video, you’ll learn what overfishing is, and why it has become a global crisis. The world’s oceans are the biggest source of food for the whole planet. Almost 35% …
Can you… unravel the coral reef food web? In this video about Unraveling the Coral Reef Food Web, you’ll learn how the coral reef ecosystem supports millions of different creatures through a complex chain of interdependent food chains. Coral reefs …
Do you know… what are coral reef zones? In this Coral Reef Zones video, you’ll learn how scientists divide coral reefs into zones, what the zones are, and what criteria they base these divisions upon. Scientists divide coral reefs into …
Do you know… what do corals eat? In this What Do Corals Eat video, you’ll learn about what types of food sources corals eat and how. Coral polyps are mostly stomach, with a mouth on top. Symbiotic algae, zooxanthellae, live …
Do you know… where are coral reefs found? In this Where Are Coral Reefs Found video, you’ll learn where reef-building corals live and thrive on the planet to create the beautiful coral reefs we’ve come to know and love. Although …
In this What are Corals video, you’ll learn what corals really are. Corals are animals. An individual coral’s body, called a polyp, is mostly stomach, with a mouth on top. Its mouth is ringed with tentacles – but these just …
2015 marked an important milestone in our Foundation’s life – completion of the field-work for our Global Reef Expedition (GRE). We circumnavigated the globe on the GRE, engaged with 15 different countries and surveyed 97 islands and over 1,000 individual reefs. However, …
This article, published in What’s Up Magazine of Annapolis (Maryland), features an interview with Living Oceans Foundation Executive Director Captain Philip G. Renaud and discusses the Foundation’s headquarters relocation to Annapolis along with their charter and mission of preserving and …
This article on how El Niño’s warmth devastates reefs worldwide, published in Science magazine, references Living Oceans Foundation Coral Reef Ecologist Alex Dempsey and focuses on the impact to the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) which the Foundation surveyed as part of …
This article on the spread of the green snail in French Polynesia published in Ocean & Coastal Management was a result of research conducted by Living Oceans Foundation Chief Scientist Andrew Bruckner and Coral Reef Ecologist Alexandra Dempsey with other …
