Hawksbill Turtles News Today

From snorkelling safaris and dolphin watching in the Maldives, to sailing excursions in Zanzibar, the Indian Ocean offers an abundance.

Over the past six months or so, our princely Pitons have been in the news for all the wrong reasons. At the heart of the contretemps...

Throughout Te Moana nui o Kiva, sea turtles are held in very high regard. The reasons for this vary from their majestic mana passed down through cultural storytelling, to their availability as a source of food.

Students in grades K through 12 have been invited to celebrate threatened and endangered species in the Pacific Islands region with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s annual art contest.

For 50 years, NOAA Fisheries and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have been protecting species and the places they live under the Endangered Species Act. This fall, NOAA Fisheries invites K–12 students to enter its ESA@50 Ocean Art Contest to celebrate a half century of conservation efforts.

With notes of pineapple I couldn't help but think of Fruit Salad chews that I'd loved as a child

IS this a case of fatal attraction? Has the ancient beauty of hawksbill turtle tortoiseshell landed it in a population crisis and may prove its undoing? Population sizes of hawksbills have “sharply declined” due to many human factors but the  most profound is the harvest of its carapace scutes (bony scales) known as tortoiseshell or bekko, fuelled by the intensive shell trade on the tortoiseshell which is a luxury item used to make elegant combs and brushes, jewelry boxes and or...

Spend some time in the ocean and promise to celebrate its uniqueness this World Ocean Day

Jetting into Vanuatu, across the sapphire sea and the crisp palette of lagoon blues, all the hues of tropical holiday daydreams were there to greet me. Acr

This World Ocean Day, spend some time in the marine world and pledge to celebrate its uniqueness. Dive deep to discover the corals