Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
Providing science-based solutions to protect and restore ocean health
The High Seas span our globe, covering half the earth. But they are unprotected. The UNESCO World Heritage Marine Programme, in close collaboration with IUCN, is exploring the potential of the 1972 World Heritage Convention to preserve places in areas …
Do you know… what is Ecology? In this What is Ecology video, you’ll learn what ecology is and more specifically, what is coral reef ecology. Ecology explores living things, plus the way they interact with one another, and their physical surroundings. …
Do you know… how corals bodies help ensure their survival? In this Form Fits Function video, you’ll learn how corals bodies are designed to ensure their survival. Ever heard the phrase form fits function? It’s when the shape of something is designed …
Do you know… how corals reproduce? In this Coral Reproduction video, you’ll learn how corals reproduce both sexually and asexually to ensure their survival. How do coral colonies ensure their own survival generation after generation? Corals reproduce sexually (mass spawning …
Mangrove Education and Restoration Program Blog As I quietly walk through the mangrove forest, all around me I observe an ecosystem teaming with life. I hear the shuffling of fiddler crabs as they scurry back to their holes in the …
We’re back in Jamaica again for some Jamaican mangrove planting… taking students and teachers to restore a local mangrove forest. It’s the final phase in a new mangrove education and restoration program called Jamaican Awareness of Mangroves in Nature. Students from Holland High …
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 …
Mangrove Education and Restoration Program Blog A guest blog by Marsden Palmer of Grade 10 Science at William Knibb Memorial High School, Jamaica and participant in the Jamaican Awareness of Mangroves in Nature (J.A.M.I.N.) program. For the past three …
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 …
