Cinematic conservation

West Papua could soon be declared a ‘Conservation Province’ – a would-be landmark moment in global conservation. Central to the move to legislate have been passionate individuals, committed organisations and a grassroots campaign of media engagement.

In a remote corner of the Caribbean island of Dominica a small group of freedivers is breathing new life into an area devastated and left cut-off by Hurricane Maria, the island’s worst storm in living memory – a story of destruction, recovery and community.

Environmental activist, author and founder of Plastic Patrol, Lizzie Carr, battles Hurricane Florence on the Hudson River in a bid to highlight the issue of single use plastics blighting the world’s waterways. Her journey to New York took eight “crazy” days.

The Moken no longer call the ocean home. To document this great change, ethnographic photographer, Cat Vinton, who once lived with the Moken, returned to the Andaman Sea. This time though, cameras were placed in the hands of the Moken children. How do they see their shifting world?

An international team of conservationists is making headway in its bid to save the spoon-billed sandpiper, a small wetland wader, from extinction. As progress is made at key sites in Russia and China, it could spell good news for other waders that share the same flyway.

Surprisingly little is known about the reproductive cycle of whale sharks. A team of marine scientists recently convened in Galapagos to see if they could unravel one of the greatest mysteries of the ocean – using an underwater ultrasound device.