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2015 Annual Report

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, the project is far from over as we bear down on the ominous task of analyzing the...

High Seas Protection

Scientists convene in Paris Written by UNESCO World Heritage Centre “Earthrise” by William Anders of the Apollo 8 mission to the moon in 1968. Christmas Eve 1968 might seem like a strange date to mark as a pivotal point in our understanding of Earth. Yet it was on that date that William Anders of Apollo 8 took the first color photo of earth...

High Seas Protection

BIOT’s Bounty – Part Two

Expedition Log: BIOT – Day 27 In many ways, BIOT is a biogeographic crossroad in the central Indian Ocean. The archipelago is located in an area affected by extreme climate variability. In adjacent parts of the Indian Ocean, many of the coral reefs show rapid declines in health, largely from climate stressors combined with severe, localized, man-created...

First Underwater Atlas of the Bahamas Published

Nassau – The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, along with the Bahamas National Trust (BNT), recently presented a new Bahamas Underwater Atlas to the Right Honourable Perry Christie, Prime Minister of The Bahamas and the Honourable Khaalis Rolle, Minister of State for Investments. This is first underwater Atlas published from the world’s largest...

First Underwater Atlas of the Bahamas Published

Bahamas Underwater Atlas Nassau – The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, along with the Bahamas National Trust (BNT), recently presented a new Bahamas Underwater Atlas to the Right Honourable Perry Christie, Prime Minister of The Bahamas and the Honourable Khaalis Rolle, Minister of State for Investments. This is first underwater Atlas published...

Surprise in Surprise Atoll: A Cast of Hermit Crabs

While scientific expeditions are generally driven by precise objectives implying rigorous data collection and protocols, they also occur in the wild, in an uncontrolled environment. Generally, we wish for surprise encounters with charismatic mega-fauna that could generate a bit of adrenalin: hammerhead sharks, whales, and manta rays heading towards...

Grouper Aggregation

Expedition Log: BIOT – Day 9 Blacksaddled Groupers (Plectropomus laevis) are aggregating in Chagos. Groupers are usually solitary fish, except when it comes to spawning, when small groups or larger aggregations form to release large quantities of eggs and sperm into the surrounding water. Blacksaddled Groupers aggregating on a submerged bank...

Spring Break?

Expedition Log: BIOT – Day 3 School is definitely in session here in Chagos! The fish team has had our hands full trying to identify, count, and size all the fish we’ve been seeing in our surveys. The reefs here are full of huge schools of fish of all sizes, shapes, and lifestyles. From the very small, decorative scalefin anthias (Pseudanthias...

Exploring Chagos

Expedition Log: BIOT – Day 1 We have just arrived at the Chagos Archipelago to study some of the most remote reefs on the planet for the latest leg of the Global Reef Expedition. M/Y Golden Shadow has just completed the 7,350 km journey from the Micronesian islands of Palau in the Pacific Ocean to the Chagos Archipelago in the British Indian...

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