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Sangeeta Mangubhai
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Coral reef ecologist from Fiji working on gender, equity, fisheries, coral reefs and more. Love my country, love Pacific island life ...

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Sangeeta Mangubhai @sangeetamangubhai.bsky.social · Jul 11
Our perspective piece in @pacificconsbio.bsky.social provides 8 strategies for "Increasing Pacific Islander research and authorship in the academic literature". @romiteshkant.bsky.social @mereoni.bsky.social @rufinovarea.bsky.social Free to download: www.publish.csiro.au/PC/PC25011

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Sangeeta Mangubhai @sangeetamangubhai.bsky.social · 2d
Our paper on Impacts of Diverse Stakeholder Participation on Fisheries Management highlight how elements of diversity (e.g. gender, Indigeneity) are being incorporated into fisheries management and are perceived to be leading to improved decision-making processes and management outcomes.

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 2d
Near Mombasa, women in Jomvu Creek are transforming livelihoods through mud crab farming.

A blue economy grant supports crab fattening, ecotourism and mangrove restoration — with nearly 1 million seedlings planted to protect the shoreline and sustain fish nurseries.
In Kenya’s Jomvu Creek, women help restore a vanishing coast through crab farming
MOMBASA COUNTY, Kenya — Five minutes’ walk up the hilly road from the mangroves lining the tidal flats of Jomvu Creek, the sharp scent of sea water fills the air. A dozen women fill a small hall with…
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 2d
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is moving toward leasing 45.7 million hectares off Alaska for seabed mining.

The plan has sparked cultural and environmental concerns, as deep-sea mining faces global scrutiny over weak regulations and ecological risks.
Indigenous concerns surface as U.S. agency considers seabed mining in Alaskan waters
A U.S. federal agency is considering allowing companies to lease more than 45.7 million hectares (113 million acres) of waters off Alaska for seabed mining. Alaska is the latest of several places…
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Bart van Zwieten @bvzw.bsky.social · 4d
Axolotls are the new animal of fashion, up there in the pantheon with the unicorn, the llama, the narwhal and the capybara. But even as the Mexican salamander’s popularity means they are everywhere, the species is under increasing threat in its native habitat. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Every time I look at one, I smile!’: how axolotls took over the world
Our passion for these cute-looking salamanders means they are everywhere – except in the wild, where the species is under increasing threat
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Catherine @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social · 9d
#Vote for the 2025 #Wildlife #Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award (last day to vote: March 18)

Link for voting, more information and more #photos:
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Dee Chan @deechan17.bsky.social · 9d
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Photographer's Unique Image of a Flying Fox Carrying its Pup Mid-Flight
Flying fox mother carries her pup in a rare shot by Chris Bray on Christmas Island.
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Jessica Blythe, PhD @jessicablythe.bsky.social · 19d
🌊 The global community has made ambitious commitments to advancing ocean equity – what is missing is a transparent & replicable way to measure equity and track progress 🐠

📢 Our new @nature.com paper, the #OceanEquityIndex, offers a simple yet robust solution: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The Ocean Equity Index - Nature
The Ocean Equity Index provides a systematic, twelve-criteria framework to assess and improve equity in ocean initiatives, projects and policies, producing structured data that guide evidence-bas...
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Jessica Blythe, PhD @jessicablythe.bsky.social · 20d
✨ The SNAPP Advancing Ocean Equity Project is hiring!

🦈 Join David Gill & @sangeetamangubhai.bsky.social to co-produce guidance for equitable ocean governance.

🔹 Deadline: 28 February 2026
🔹 Job link: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31550

🌊 Please apply or share widely!

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 25d
🥺As proud as we should be on sustainability and fisheries compliance efforts, improving the human and labour rights is long overdue. While we cannot force DWFN to change, we need to lead by example and create the standards for PICs fleets. Vanuatu is the pacific biggest fleet yet the less regulated.

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Sangeeta Mangubhai @sangeetamangubhai.bsky.social · 25d
More stories from the Pacific on violence towards Islanders working on vessels. @franciscoblaha.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2pb...
SILENT WATERS: The Hidden Struggle of Vanuatu Fishers
YouTube video by Smol Vilij Productions
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Jan 14
The red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states.

The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor.

One collision and the whale is dead.

We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · Jan 1
Scientists retrieved 13 ARMS units from deep reefs off Guam, collecting 2,000 specimens, including 100 species new to the region and 20+ new to science.

Sensors show warming even in the twilight zone. It’s the start of a 76-ARMS effort to protect deep Pacific reefs.
Deep-sea ‘hotels’ reveal 20 new species hiding in Pacific Ocean twilight zone near Guam
A transparent goby fish drifted through the darkness, its skeleton visible through paper-thin skin. Nearby, a sea slug wore yellow polka dots like a party dress, while an orange fish with bulging…
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · Dec 30
A new paper in Nature Communications describes #chemosynthetic ecosystem around #methane seep on the bottom of the #Arctic #Ocean

Deep-sea gas hydrate mounds and chemosynthetic fauna discovered at 3640 m on the Molloy Ridge, Greenland Sea | Nature Communications share.google/5lEiX7XozSEC...
Deep-sea gas hydrate mounds and chemosynthetic fauna discovered at 3640 m on the Molloy Ridge, Greenland Sea - Nature Communications
This study reveals dissociating methane hydrate mounds on the seafloor at more than 3600 m deep in the Greenland Sea. This gas hydrate cold seep supports chemosynthetic fauna similar to Arctic hydroth...
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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · Dec 29
In this year’s #PlanetaryHealthCheck (www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...), the #OceanAcidification boundary has been assessed as breached for the first time. What does this mean? Nice explanatory piece in “Dialogue Earth”, with input from PIK researcher Levke Caesar.

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Explainer: The latest science on ocean acidification
In 2025, scientists warned the ‘planetary boundary’ for ocean acidification had been crossed. This is what that means and why it matters
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Bruce Webber @drbrucewebber.bsky.social · Dec 29
Extinction rarely departs with drama, it slips out the back door while we’re still debating the guest list. These records are made official on the Red List. "Conservation failures are often recognised only once they can no longer be reversed."
via @mongabay.com: news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

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International Biodiversity @ibioconsultants.com · Dec 29
How did we get here?

#Marine#Pollution #ForeverChemicals #MarineEcology #MarineMammals

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Unprecedented levels of forever chemicals found in dolphins and whales
New research has revealed that marine mammals who live far below the ocean's surface are not immune from the burden of toxic forever chemicals, with whales and dolphins showing unprecedented levels of...
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Sangeeta Mangubhai @sangeetamangubhai.bsky.social · Dec 29
For all those that knew her, for all those that missed the chance to get to know this inspiring woman, we honour and farewell Elizabeth Erasito. Thank you @mongabay.com for sharing the legacy and inspiration Elizabeth leaves. www.butlernature.com/2025/12/27/e...
Elizabeth Erasito, custodian of Fiji’s parks and places, aged 57
The work of conservation in small island states is rarely abstract. It is shaped by land that is limited, institutions that are thinly resourced, and pressures that arrive from far beyond national bor...
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · Dec 28
Dynamic mounds made of methane at a depth of some 3,640 meters act like “frozen reefs” for a bizarre array of deep-sea creatures, new observations reveal
Bizarre Ecosystem Discovered More Than Two Miles beneath Arctic Ocean
Dynamic mounds made of methane at a depth of some 3,640 meters act like “frozen reefs” for a bizarre array of deep-sea creatures, new observations reveal
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Sangeeta Mangubhai @sangeetamangubhai.bsky.social · Dec 27
Loss of the Christmas Island shrew. The forest is quieter with its extinction. Always filled with immense sadness when another species slips away as a result of the way we treat nature and the wildlife we share this planet. news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-m...
In memory of the Christmas Island shrew
It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar. Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, moving through the roots and leaf litter of a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. At night, its voi...
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Sangeeta Mangubhai @sangeetamangubhai.bsky.social · Dec 27
A killing with precedent. www.butlernature.com/2025/11/22/a...
A killing with precedent
Early on November 16th, gunmen shot and killed Vicente Kaiowá e Guarani, a father and spokesman for the Kaiowá, a people who have spent decades trying to return to the places they call tekoha. His com...
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Sangeeta Mangubhai @sangeetamangubhai.bsky.social · Dec 27
Saalumarada Thimmakka, mother of trees. www.butlernature.com/2025/11/15/s...
Saalumarada Thimmakka, mother of trees, has died, aged 114
Along a dusty road between Hulikal and Kudur in southern India, banyan trees rise like sentinels. Their thick roots grasp the earth, their canopies stretch wide, casting deep shade over the red soil. ...
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Sangeeta Mangubhai @sangeetamangubhai.bsky.social · Dec 27
Sad loss for Indonesia and the world. She will be missed. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Gayatri Reksodihardjo-Lilley, who helped Indonesian communities restore their reefs, has died
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In the shallows off northern Bali, where the reefs flicker with life...
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Sangeeta Mangubhai @sangeetamangubhai.bsky.social · Dec 27
Loss of an ocean defender. news.mongabay.com/2025/12/kris...
Kristina Gjerde, defender of the deep ocean, has died
Half the planet lies outside any country’s border. In those waters, rules have long been thinner than the myths: freedom to fish meant freedom to take; “out of sight” became “out of mind.” The deep oc...
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Global Issues @globalissues.org · Dec 27
The Fight Against #Femicide: Victories and Setbacks in 2025
The Fight Against Femicide: Victories and Setbacks in 2025
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, December 27 (IPS) - Hours before world leaders gathered in Johannesburg for the 2025 G20 summit in November, hundreds of South African women wearing black lay down in a city park for 15 minutes — one for each woman who loses her life every day to gender-based violence in the country. The striking visual protest was organised by a civil society organisation, Women for Change, which also gathered over a million signatures demanding the government declare gender-based violence (GBV) a national disaster. Hours later, the government acquiesced.
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Sangeeta Mangubhai @sangeetamangubhai.bsky.social · Dec 27
Acidification occurring faster than expected ...
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Century-old corals reveal the Pacific Northwest is acidifying faster than expected
In 1888, researchers aboard the R/V Albatross began the world’s first concentrated marine research expeditions off California’s Pacific coast. The team collected untold plant and animal specimens, inc...
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Rhett Ayers Butler @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social · Dec 23
70 environmental defenders & conservationists who died in 2025

Environmental progress often depends on endurance, sustained over years, by people whose work mattered long before their names did.

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · Dec 22
The Global Cooling Watch 2025 shows how smarter, fairer, sustainable cooling can save lives, cut pollution, and help billions stay safe from extreme heat.

More info: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

#YearInReview

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Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · Dec 22
Here is a link around the paywall for my latest commentary
in One Earth titled " A decade of bright spots in conservation and ecology: Lessons, limits, and future directions"
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Sangeeta Mangubhai @sangeetamangubhai.bsky.social · Dec 19
Proud of my country and so grateful for my amazing colleagues for their work and perseverance to make this happen. Now time to roll up the sleaves and do some hard work.
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Fiji secures agreement on Ocean and climate action Resolution at UNEA-7 | Pacific Environment
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Ariel Greiner (she/her) @arielgreiner.bsky.social · Dec 11
A great collaboration with @emilysdarling.bsky.social, @stacyjupiter.bsky.social, @sangeetamangubhai.bsky.social, Amelia Wenger, Marie-Josée Fortin, Martin Krkosek, Yashika Nand and Marco Andrello.