Down in the deep blue, a photographer is taking these stunning black and white pictures. Indonesian Hengki Koentjoro‘s underwater photographs show an array of sea-life as it’s never been seen before. He has pictured sharks, jellyfish, scuba divers and, perhaps most strikingly, a hard coral called the ‘sunflower mushroom’ which appears to be sporting a sinister [...]

Project Seahorse calls on all divers and marine enthusiasts to help with the recently launched three-year project aimed at studying the seahorses of Thailand. Seahorses were one of the first fish species to be added, in 2004, to Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), [...]

2009 wurde in den Gewässern rund um Cancun, Isla Mujeres und Punta Nizuc, die ersten Schritte für die Errichtung eines monumentalen Unterwassermuseums eingeleitet. In the warm waters around Cancun, Isla Mujeres and Punta Nizuc is an underwater sculptural museum built in 2009. Der britische Künstler Jason de Caires Taylor ist der Schöpfer des einzigartigen Skulpturenparks [...]

Three types of critically endangered but commercially valuable shark have been given added protection at the Cites meeting in Bangkok. The body, which regulates trade in flora and fauna, voted by a two-thirds majority to upgrade the sharks’ status. Campaigners hailed the move as historic and said the vote represented a major breakthrough for marine [...]

New plans to protect elephants, rhinos and other species will be discussed at a critical meeting that begins in Bangkok on Sunday. Delegates will review the convention on the international trade in endangered species (CITES). Around 35,000 animals and plants are at present protected by the treaty. But with a global “extinction crisis” facing many [...]

Oceanic whitetip sharks return home to protected Bahamas waters, surprising scientists. Previously thought to be wide-ranging animals, a tagging survey has revealed that the sharks frequently revisit the same areas around the island. Conservationists have listed the sharks as Vulnerable globally and Critically Endangered in parts of their range. Experts suggest that the island nation’s [...]

Researchers say that the natural ability of sea urchins to absorb CO2 could be a model for an effective carbon capture and storage system. Newcastle University scientists discovered by chance that urchins use the metal nickel to turn carbon dioxide into shell. They say the technique can be harnessed to turn emissions from power plants [...]

The distress call of a young dolphin has been used to lure a large pod of the animals to safety, after it appeared they would strand themselves in shallow water. Environment officials in Western Australia caught the juvenile and took it to deeper water, where its distress calls enticed the rest to follow. One dolphin [...]

Shawn Heinrichs, conservationist, diver and cinematographer and Kristian Schmidt, photographer, recently got together for one of the most unique fashion shoots ever. Having heard about the fishermen’s relationships with whale sharks near Oslob in the The Philippines, they took some touching images and then decided to come back with a concept for a fashion shoot [...]

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