Ocean news from around the world

Conservation /

France

Opinion: "Fishers are the solution, not the problem"

Ahead of UNOC 2025, Fauna and Flora CEO, Kristian Teleki echoes the current commentary around industrial fishing and marine damage sparked by Sir David Attenborough’s OCEAN, highlighting that small-scale fishers can play a key role in ocean stewardship. Read More

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Marine Life /

North America

Scientists identify language-like chatter among dolphins

The study exploring the non-signature communications between a community of dolphins in Sarasota, Florida was one of four shortlisted projects launched to uncover ‘remarkable discoveries’ in communications with wildlife, including with monkeys and cuttlefish. Read More

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Antarctica /

Marine Life

South Sandwich Islands: Coral gardens and possible new species

New coral gardens and hydrothermal vents - all thriving with biodiversity, including many suspected new species - have been observed for the first time on a recent 35-day deep-sea expedition to one of the most remote island chains in the world. Read More

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Australia /

Marine Life

Migrating humpbacks weigh social versus family rest sites

A new study from Griffith University in Australia has compared how migrating humpback whales use two stopover sites along the Queensland coast, finding that one was more social in nature and the other was used primarily by mothers and calves. Read More

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France /

Marine Protected Areas

Quarter of a million in Europe call for an end to bottom-trawling

Dragging heavy nets across the seafloor, bottom-trawling devastates biodiversity and wipes out the ecosystems MPAs are meant to protect. Yet, 60% of Europe’s MPAs are still being bottom-trawled - and many of them more heavily than their surrounding waters. Read More

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Conservation /

France

EU Ocean Pact risks being "another toothless strategy"

While groups including WWF EPO, BirdLife, and Oceana acknowledge that the document does outline steps towards better enforcement of existing laws, they have too expressed ‘alarm’ that it does not offer action on overfishing, bottom-trawling, or ocean pollution. Read More

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Blue economy /

UK

UK's first Blue Natural Capital Lab rejuvenates Sussex coast

Industrial trawling, overfishing, and pollutants in the water have each contributed to the decline and 'devastating loss of nature' across the region in recent decades, including the disappearance of 98% of kelp and seagrasses and once covered the Sussex coast. Read More

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Africa /

News

Fisheries crisis in Senegal drives forced migration to Europe

A shocking new report from the Environmental Justice Foundation has provided a stark picture of the realities of the overfishing and illegal fishing that is driving forced migration among young Senegalese fishers across one of the most deadliest routes to Europe. Read More

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Australia /

Climate change

Even Australia's most resilient coral reefs are now feeling the heat

As the world’s fourth - and most severe - mass coral bleaching event unfolds, scientists warn that even reefs that had so far avoided the kind of coral bleaching seen on the Great Barrier Reef and Western Australia’s Ningaloo Reef this year are feeling the pressure. Read More

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