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As we fast approach a conservation tipping point for sharks and rays, the upcoming CITES CoP20 is an opportunity for leaders to vote for stronger protections and to bring unregulated trade under international control.
Infographic by Kelsey Manners Dickson | © SOSF
#CITESCoP20
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Infographic by Kelsey Manners Dickson | © SOSF
#CITESCoP20
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November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
As we fast approach a conservation tipping point for sharks and rays, the upcoming CITES CoP20 is an opportunity for leaders to vote for stronger protections and to bring unregulated trade under international control.
Infographic by Kelsey Manners Dickson | © SOSF
#CITESCoP20
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Infographic by Kelsey Manners Dickson | © SOSF
#CITESCoP20
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Perhaps not the nudibranch you're used to: this Melibe viridis, filmed in Indonesia, has a rather peculiar mouth. It has an oral veil, an expandable hood used for hunting. Using their veil as a fish net, they scour the seafloor and seagrass blades for small crustaceans.
November 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Perhaps not the nudibranch you're used to: this Melibe viridis, filmed in Indonesia, has a rather peculiar mouth. It has an oral veil, an expandable hood used for hunting. Using their veil as a fish net, they scour the seafloor and seagrass blades for small crustaceans.
New Study Reveals Persistent Illegal Trade in Protected Sharks with Calls to Strengthen World’s Wildlife-Trade Treaty to Prevent Extinctions.
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🎥: Byron Dilkes
🎥: Open Planet Studios | Silverback Films
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🎥: Byron Dilkes
🎥: Open Planet Studios | Silverback Films
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
New Study Reveals Persistent Illegal Trade in Protected Sharks with Calls to Strengthen World’s Wildlife-Trade Treaty to Prevent Extinctions.
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🎥: Byron Dilkes
🎥: Open Planet Studios | Silverback Films
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🎥: Byron Dilkes
🎥: Open Planet Studios | Silverback Films
DNA analysis from Hong Kong’s shark-fin markets reveals massive ongoing trade in critically endangered species such as oceanic whitetip and hammerhead sharks. The data show that tougher enforcement of CITES and fisheries rules is needed worldwide.
📷: Shawn Heinrichs
📷: James Morgan
📷: Shawn Heinrichs
📷: James Morgan
November 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
DNA analysis from Hong Kong’s shark-fin markets reveals massive ongoing trade in critically endangered species such as oceanic whitetip and hammerhead sharks. The data show that tougher enforcement of CITES and fisheries rules is needed worldwide.
📷: Shawn Heinrichs
📷: James Morgan
📷: Shawn Heinrichs
📷: James Morgan
Climate change is driving coral reefs beyond their tipping point, pushing these vulnerable systems harder than they can push back. And there's a domino effect - marine species like turtles risk losing their habitat and food sources, swinging life on the reef into imbalance.
🎥: Rainer von Brandis
🎥: Rainer von Brandis
November 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Climate change is driving coral reefs beyond their tipping point, pushing these vulnerable systems harder than they can push back. And there's a domino effect - marine species like turtles risk losing their habitat and food sources, swinging life on the reef into imbalance.
🎥: Rainer von Brandis
🎥: Rainer von Brandis
A conservation victory for green sea turtles was announced: a downgrade of the conservation status from Endangered to Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
🎥: Open Planet Studios | Silverback Films & Riverbank Studios
🎥: Jade Schultz
🎥: Moose
🎥: Sebastian Staines
🎥: Open Planet Studios | Silverback Films & Riverbank Studios
🎥: Jade Schultz
🎥: Moose
🎥: Sebastian Staines
November 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
A conservation victory for green sea turtles was announced: a downgrade of the conservation status from Endangered to Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
🎥: Open Planet Studios | Silverback Films & Riverbank Studios
🎥: Jade Schultz
🎥: Moose
🎥: Sebastian Staines
🎥: Open Planet Studios | Silverback Films & Riverbank Studios
🎥: Jade Schultz
🎥: Moose
🎥: Sebastian Staines
As the Mother City welcomes warmer days, the ocean splashed across Cape Town's architecture becomes an exciting reminder that the city harbours more than nightlife and urban adventure.
@pangeaseed.bsky.social's Sea Walls
📷: Yoshi Yanagita
🎨: Sonny Behan, Dulk, Motelseven, Yeye Weller
@pangeaseed.bsky.social's Sea Walls
📷: Yoshi Yanagita
🎨: Sonny Behan, Dulk, Motelseven, Yeye Weller
November 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
As the Mother City welcomes warmer days, the ocean splashed across Cape Town's architecture becomes an exciting reminder that the city harbours more than nightlife and urban adventure.
@pangeaseed.bsky.social's Sea Walls
📷: Yoshi Yanagita
🎨: Sonny Behan, Dulk, Motelseven, Yeye Weller
@pangeaseed.bsky.social's Sea Walls
📷: Yoshi Yanagita
🎨: Sonny Behan, Dulk, Motelseven, Yeye Weller
Found along the seafloor of every ocean in the world, sea urchins are not the simple, stationary pin-cushions that some people believe them to be. They have specialised adaptations which include many tiny tube feet, tentacles, that sprout amongst their sharp spines.
November 4, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Found along the seafloor of every ocean in the world, sea urchins are not the simple, stationary pin-cushions that some people believe them to be. They have specialised adaptations which include many tiny tube feet, tentacles, that sprout amongst their sharp spines.
Unblinking eyes, prominent nostrils and a gaping mouth - giant moray eels are not easily missed on reefs. Opening and closing their mouths pumps water across their gills, and their powerful jaws hide a mouth lined with rows of inward-pointing teeth.
October 31, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Unblinking eyes, prominent nostrils and a gaping mouth - giant moray eels are not easily missed on reefs. Opening and closing their mouths pumps water across their gills, and their powerful jaws hide a mouth lined with rows of inward-pointing teeth.
Happy Halloween!
What sharks and rays can you identify trick or treating?
Illustration by Anju Sabu - Oh, Dakuwaqa!
What sharks and rays can you identify trick or treating?
Illustration by Anju Sabu - Oh, Dakuwaqa!
October 31, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Happy Halloween!
What sharks and rays can you identify trick or treating?
Illustration by Anju Sabu - Oh, Dakuwaqa!
What sharks and rays can you identify trick or treating?
Illustration by Anju Sabu - Oh, Dakuwaqa!
Is it a bird, or is it a plane?
No, it's a Munk's pygmy devil ray.
Limited to the coastal waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean, from the Sea of Cortez in Mexico, to Peru, these devil rays are often found forming large, highly mobile aggregations in their range.
📷: Simon Hilbourne
No, it's a Munk's pygmy devil ray.
Limited to the coastal waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean, from the Sea of Cortez in Mexico, to Peru, these devil rays are often found forming large, highly mobile aggregations in their range.
📷: Simon Hilbourne
October 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Is it a bird, or is it a plane?
No, it's a Munk's pygmy devil ray.
Limited to the coastal waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean, from the Sea of Cortez in Mexico, to Peru, these devil rays are often found forming large, highly mobile aggregations in their range.
📷: Simon Hilbourne
No, it's a Munk's pygmy devil ray.
Limited to the coastal waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean, from the Sea of Cortez in Mexico, to Peru, these devil rays are often found forming large, highly mobile aggregations in their range.
📷: Simon Hilbourne
On this week's #WoS podcast episode, we journey into the darkness with deep-sea legend Dr @britfinucci. A far from barren landscape, we meet the small-but-ferocious prickly dogfish, the luminous lanternsharks, and the ancient and toothy frilled sharks.
Listen here: saveourseas.com/worldofshark...
Listen here: saveourseas.com/worldofshark...
October 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
On this week's #WoS podcast episode, we journey into the darkness with deep-sea legend Dr @britfinucci. A far from barren landscape, we meet the small-but-ferocious prickly dogfish, the luminous lanternsharks, and the ancient and toothy frilled sharks.
Listen here: saveourseas.com/worldofshark...
Listen here: saveourseas.com/worldofshark...
The oceanic manta ray is listed as Endangered, threatened by pressures such as overfishing and habitat loss. Studying their movements, behaviour, and habitats is vital to understanding how best to protect them, to ensure these giants continue to exist.
🎥: Byron Dilkes
🎥: Byron Dilkes
October 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The oceanic manta ray is listed as Endangered, threatened by pressures such as overfishing and habitat loss. Studying their movements, behaviour, and habitats is vital to understanding how best to protect them, to ensure these giants continue to exist.
🎥: Byron Dilkes
🎥: Byron Dilkes
This ragged-tooth shark has a hitchhiker caught between its teeth, but not for long. These sharks possess a conveyor belt of teeth, arranged in rows that steadily shift forward as new ones grow behind them. It’s a brilliant adaptation with a lifetime supply of fresh, razor-sharp replacements.
October 27, 2025 at 7:39 AM
This ragged-tooth shark has a hitchhiker caught between its teeth, but not for long. These sharks possess a conveyor belt of teeth, arranged in rows that steadily shift forward as new ones grow behind them. It’s a brilliant adaptation with a lifetime supply of fresh, razor-sharp replacements.
Calling all educators, storytellers, creatives and science communicators!
We want you to share your knowledge and passion for science communication at next year's Sharks International 2026 symposium, where a dedicated Science Communication session will be held.
We want you to share your knowledge and passion for science communication at next year's Sharks International 2026 symposium, where a dedicated Science Communication session will be held.
October 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Calling all educators, storytellers, creatives and science communicators!
We want you to share your knowledge and passion for science communication at next year's Sharks International 2026 symposium, where a dedicated Science Communication session will be held.
We want you to share your knowledge and passion for science communication at next year's Sharks International 2026 symposium, where a dedicated Science Communication session will be held.
A master of camouflage in the kelp forests of Southern Africa, the weedsucker finds refuge as an adult in the swaying kelp of the Great African Seaforest. They have a specially adapted disc-like sucker, formed from modified pelvic fins, that they use to adhere to surfaces.
📷: Jannes Lanschoff
📷: Jannes Lanschoff
October 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
A master of camouflage in the kelp forests of Southern Africa, the weedsucker finds refuge as an adult in the swaying kelp of the Great African Seaforest. They have a specially adapted disc-like sucker, formed from modified pelvic fins, that they use to adhere to surfaces.
📷: Jannes Lanschoff
📷: Jannes Lanschoff
Lionfish are cunning hunters and even better defenders with their venomous spines. Since being introduced in the Atlantic Ocean, their numbers have boomed. Without natural predators, they have proliferated, feeding on herbivorous fish, which disrupts the balance on coral reefs in these regions.
October 23, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Lionfish are cunning hunters and even better defenders with their venomous spines. Since being introduced in the Atlantic Ocean, their numbers have boomed. Without natural predators, they have proliferated, feeding on herbivorous fish, which disrupts the balance on coral reefs in these regions.
Weddell seals are creatures of the ice, but don't be fooled by their 'chilled' demeanour - once in the water, these seals are exceptional divers, spending up to 90 minutes below the water!
🎥: Byron Dilkes
🎥: Byron Dilkes
October 21, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Weddell seals are creatures of the ice, but don't be fooled by their 'chilled' demeanour - once in the water, these seals are exceptional divers, spending up to 90 minutes below the water!
🎥: Byron Dilkes
🎥: Byron Dilkes
The Save Our Seas Foundation is honoured to have joined global leaders, scientists, and conservationists in Abu Dhabi for the IUCN World Conservation Congress, a defining moment for the future of our planet.
🎥: Caiti Allison, Byron Dilkes, Sebastian Staines
🎥: Caiti Allison, Byron Dilkes, Sebastian Staines
October 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The Save Our Seas Foundation is honoured to have joined global leaders, scientists, and conservationists in Abu Dhabi for the IUCN World Conservation Congress, a defining moment for the future of our planet.
🎥: Caiti Allison, Byron Dilkes, Sebastian Staines
🎥: Caiti Allison, Byron Dilkes, Sebastian Staines
It's International Sawfish Day!
Today, we celebrate the 9th annual day dedicated to sharing knowledge and awareness of sawfish and their conservation for generations to come.
Infographic by Kelsey Manners Dickson
Today, we celebrate the 9th annual day dedicated to sharing knowledge and awareness of sawfish and their conservation for generations to come.
Infographic by Kelsey Manners Dickson
October 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
It's International Sawfish Day!
Today, we celebrate the 9th annual day dedicated to sharing knowledge and awareness of sawfish and their conservation for generations to come.
Infographic by Kelsey Manners Dickson
Today, we celebrate the 9th annual day dedicated to sharing knowledge and awareness of sawfish and their conservation for generations to come.
Infographic by Kelsey Manners Dickson
In this week's episode of the #WoS podcast, Dr Kelly Kingon talks about her research on one of the ocean’s most distinctive predators: hammerhead sharks.
Listen here:
saveourseas.com/worldofshark...
Listen here:
saveourseas.com/worldofshark...
October 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
In this week's episode of the #WoS podcast, Dr Kelly Kingon talks about her research on one of the ocean’s most distinctive predators: hammerhead sharks.
Listen here:
saveourseas.com/worldofshark...
Listen here:
saveourseas.com/worldofshark...
Amidst the tranquil scene of shimmering silver bait fish swimming in the sun-warmed surface waters of the ocean, schooling bonito race below, feeding on the ‘bait ball' of small fish. It’s a fish-eat-fish world out there!
🎥: Byron Dilkes
🎥: Byron Dilkes
October 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Amidst the tranquil scene of shimmering silver bait fish swimming in the sun-warmed surface waters of the ocean, schooling bonito race below, feeding on the ‘bait ball' of small fish. It’s a fish-eat-fish world out there!
🎥: Byron Dilkes
🎥: Byron Dilkes
Golden orange in colour, with bright blue around its eyes, the Midas blenny is a sight to behold. They live a rather secretive life on coral reefs; burrowed in sand, or living in reef crevices. When they do emerge and swim over the reef, their movements are eel-like.
📷: Dillys Pouponeau | © SOSF
📷: Dillys Pouponeau | © SOSF
October 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Golden orange in colour, with bright blue around its eyes, the Midas blenny is a sight to behold. They live a rather secretive life on coral reefs; burrowed in sand, or living in reef crevices. When they do emerge and swim over the reef, their movements are eel-like.
📷: Dillys Pouponeau | © SOSF
📷: Dillys Pouponeau | © SOSF
Perhaps more ethereal than any other marine animal, manta rays swoop and glide through our oceans. But they are far more than simply otherworldly, and plankton-swilling. They have the largest brain relative to their body size of any fish in the ocean and are highly intelligent.
🎥: Byron Dilkes
🎥: Byron Dilkes
October 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Perhaps more ethereal than any other marine animal, manta rays swoop and glide through our oceans. But they are far more than simply otherworldly, and plankton-swilling. They have the largest brain relative to their body size of any fish in the ocean and are highly intelligent.
🎥: Byron Dilkes
🎥: Byron Dilkes
Tiger sharks are the only sharks in the family Carcharhinidae that are ovoviviparous, which means they grow their embryos internally and nourish them from a yolk sac before giving birth to live, independent young.
📷: Chris Vaughan-Jones
📷: Chris Vaughan-Jones
October 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Tiger sharks are the only sharks in the family Carcharhinidae that are ovoviviparous, which means they grow their embryos internally and nourish them from a yolk sac before giving birth to live, independent young.
📷: Chris Vaughan-Jones
📷: Chris Vaughan-Jones