Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
Providing science-based solutions to protect and restore ocean health
LOF Education launches the Bahamian Awareness of Mangroves (or B.A.M. for short), a new program to support mangrove education and restoration in The Bahamas. The B.A.M. program provides classrooms with lesson plans and activities as well as providing the opportunity for …
The Foundation launches the SCAR program (Starfish Control and Removal) to expand scientific understanding of COTS, mitigate damage through large-scale COTS removal efforts, and educate local communities, dive operators, resource management agencies and tourists in affected countries on the ecology …
In 2011, scientists and divers from the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, Bahamas National Trust, the Department of Marine Resources, The Nature Conservancy, the National Coral Reef Institute, and the Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment Program joined forces to …
The Foundation launches a year-long hands-on mangrove restoration project in Jamaica called the Jamaica Awareness of Mangroves In Nature (J.A.M.I.N.) project. The venture, joined with the University of the West Indies-Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory and the Caribbean Student Environmental Alliance, …
In 2005 the Foundation first started mapping offshore reefs in the Saudi Arabian Red Sea. After working years to collect data about the shape, structure, and species that make up these reefs and transform it into detailed reef maps, this year …
The Foundation launches its World Web GIS Map Viewer, a continually growing web map interface comprised of benthic habitat and bathymetric datasets collected during the various research expeditions around the globe. The map viewer makes detailed habitat and bathymetry data readily …
The Foundation’s new website wins ‘Best in Class’ at the Interactive Media Awards in the category ‘Natural Environment/Green.’ The Best in Class award is the highest honor bestowed by the IMA and it represents the very best in planning, execution and overall …
The Foundation launches the Tonga Coral Reef Education and Outreach program aimed at Tongan schools, communities, tourists, and government officials through out the Ha’apai and Vava’u island groups. The program is designed to collaborate with local Tongan communities to fill knowledge gaps and provide …
The Science without Borders® Challenge, an international art competition for primary and secondary school students, is created to get students and teachers interested in ocean conservation through various forms of art. The Challenge engages students to promote the need to preserve, …
Our second research mission of 2015 takes the Global Reef Expedition to the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), a small island chain in the Indian Ocean and home to some of the most remote, and pristine, coral reefs on Earth …
