While filming in Senegal for An Ocean Mystery: The Missing Catch we visited the coastal town of Joal. It is about 2 hours drive south of Dakar, 3 if you get stuck behind a slow truck. When we arrived we
One of the focuses of our filming in Senegal was to look at the impact of illegal fishing on the Senegalese fishing industry. We are working with Dyhia Belhabib Ph.D, from the Sea Around Us of the University of British
As part of our filming and outreach program we are co-producing a film with the Smithsonian Channel on the research of fisheries biologist Daniel Pauly. He and his team, based at the University of British Columbia, have been working on
At the beginning of September Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation Director of Communications, Alison Barrat, participated in the UNESCO World Heritage Marine Site Managers conference in the Galapagos Islands. The conference brought together managers of the most special marine
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is proud to support the publication of a game-changing report by UNESCO and IUCN that illustrates how the World Heritage Convention can be used to protect special places on the High Seas. The
By Fanny Douvere, Head of UNESCO’s World Heritage Marine Programme Sunken coral islands, floating rainforests, giant undersea volcanoes or even spires of rock resembling sunken cities: none of these sites can be inscribed on the World Heritage List because they
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
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
LSU School of Renewable Natural Resources Alumni assists with Project JAMIN (Mangrove Restoration Project) during Reunion in Jamaica A guest blog written by the ‘LSU Wildlife Crew’ who accompanied the KSLOF Education Director to Jamaica for this last phase of
Mangrove Education and Restoration Program Blog I have arrived at the University of the West Indies Discovery Bay Marine Lab in Jamaica and I’m anxious to implement the final phase of the J.A.M.I.N. program. This is the second year of
