Effective action needs accessible science

  • Posted by Chris Brown
  • On July 1, 2019
Coastal wetlands are globally threatened. However, the plight of these habitats, like mangrove forests, seagrass meadows and saltmarshes, is not well recognised relative to other coastal ecosystems, such as coral reefs. This translates into funding shortfalls both for the science needed to address coastal wetland decline and for the protection and restoration actions needed to […]
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What the sea needs on World Oceans Day 2019

  • Posted by Tom Rayner
  • On June 8, 2019
“You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself floweth in your veins.” In the mid 1600s, English poet and clergyman Thomas Traherne penned Centuries of Meditations, a collection of paragraphs vividly detailing his reverence for the natural world. In it, he set a signpost towards awakening.
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Turtley sick moves: rescuing weak sea turtles and the science aimed at helping their equally weak populations

  • Posted by Ryan Pearson
  • On April 26, 2019
Sea turtles are threatened. Literal boat loads of things affect their already low survival rates, most attributable to humans. Plastics, fishing entanglements, temperature increases, habitat degradation and actual boat strikes are killing turtles and affecting their populations in many other ways. Ultimately threatening their very existence. Knowing this, when my buddy Dr Michael Sievers and […]
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