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Who are the Marine Mammals?
By Michael Stocker, Founding Director of Ocean Conservation Research, a project of The Ocean Foundation When folks in the conservation community think of marine mammals whales typically top the list. …
The Fish at the Heart of the Food System
This article originally appeared on Limn and was co-written by Alison Fairbrother and David Schleifer You have never seen a menhaden, but you have eaten one. Although no one sits …
In Gratitude with Optimism
Every friend of the ocean is important, of course, and so are the donations they make. And sometimes, we get a donation that is accompanied by a note that makes …
Stop the Trash
By Mark J. Spalding, President, The Ocean Foundation This blog originally appeared on NatGeo’s Ocean Views We once believed that the ocean was too big to fail, that we could …
Where we are now with Corals of the World
Letter from a TOF Grantee: Where we now are with Corals of the World By Charlie Veron Corals of the World is a project that began with a five-year effort …
Letter from a TOF Grantee: Where we now are with Corals of the World
By Charlie Veron Corals of the World is a project that began with a five-year effort to put together what became a 3-volume hard copy encyclopaedia with photographs illustrating the …
A Struggle To Capture Whale Footage
By Chris Palmer, TOF Advisory Board Member We only had two days left and the weather was closing in and getting stormy. We hadn’t gotten the footage we needed yet …
Sea Turtles of the Yucatan Peninsula
By Brad Nahill, Co-founder and Director of SEEtheWild.org “We may have to walk a ways to see a sea turtle,” I told my daughter Karina as we stood on X’cacel …
Gone Wild in Salamanca
By: Mark J. Spalding (The Ocean Foundation) and Shari Sant Plummer (Code Blue Foundation) A version of this blog originally appeared on National Geographic’s Ocean Views. We are writing after spending hectic …
The Georgia Strait Alliance: Friend of the Ocean
By Ben Scheelk, Program Associate, The Ocean Foundation Silence. The pure, unadulterated, deafening silence that makes one feel as if you are in a vacuum. That is my lasting impression …
What Do Drones Have to Do with Sea Turtles?
By Carla García Zendejas On September 15th while most Mexican’s began celebrating our Independence Day some were absorbed by another major event; the shrimping season began on Mexico’s Pacific Coast. …
Rock, Paper, Turtles: Expanding Turtle Education in El Salvador
By Brad Nahill, Director & Co-Founder of SEEtheWILD and SEE Turtles Working with Local Teachers to Expand Sea Turtle Education Programs in El Salvador Only a few hundred female hawksbills …