Indonesia has opened Southeast Asia's largest marine park in the Savu Sea, a migration route for almost half the world's whale species and home to vast tracts of rare coral, the country's fisheries...
Marine scientists say they are astonished at the spectacular recovery of certain coral reefs in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park from a devastating coral bleaching event 3 years ago
The Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society has just announced that its efforts to protect a wildlife-rich coastal region in South America have paid off in the form of a new coastal marine...
Almost two years into its implementation, the Marine Parks Project funded by the Government of Malaysia, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Global Environment Facility (GEF) is well on...
Two years ago with fanfare, President Bush declared a remote chain of Hawaiian islands the biggest, most environmentally protected area of ocean in the world. It hasn't worked out that way.
A THREE-metre grey nurse shark has had a lucky escape from a slow and painful death after marine experts removed a fishing gaff embedded in its throat yesterday.
Animal rights advocate People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Asia-Pacific (PETA) on Wednesday voiced opposition against the country's latest tourist attraction, the Manila Ocean Park, for...
During a time when "Australia links organized crime to illegal fishing", the Queensland, Australia Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries is creating a dedicated shark fishery of their own.
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth have developed a new scientific model that accurately maps where coral reefs are in the...
Government officials from Bonaire joined coral reef experts and managers from the United States, Mexico and France to officially inaugurate the International Year of the Reef 2008 during a news...
This year has been a major milestone for the St Eustatius Marine Park. It is ten years since the Marine Park first opened its office and started operations to install the first moorings for dive...
The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) asked the Department of Tourism on Monday to reconsider its endorsement of the Manila Ocean Park.
PETA maintained that...
David Doubilet was one of two recipients of the 2007 DEMA Reaching Out Awards. David, along with dive industry legend Bob Soto, were honored in recognition of their significant contributions to the...
Queensland's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says a protected coral reef off the far north Queensland coast has been deliberately damaged. EPA officers visited Hicks Island 600 kilometres...
Conservationists are urging the Australian government to protect the Coral Sea, one of its last tropical marine wildernesses.
The sea was recently declared a "predator diversity...
Up to 100 will be allowed to be exported every year, according to the Solomons' fisheries minister, Nollen Leni. The dolphins are likely to be sold to marine parks, where they will perform in...
The Raja Ampat Regency Government is proud to announce the introduction of a tourism entrance fee system effective August 12th 2007. In accordance with Regency Law Number 63 and 64, the 2007...
8 of the 10 main rivers flowing into Great Barrier Reef waters have breached Queensland's water quality guidelines, polluting the country's most valuable tourist attraction with increased amounts...
Cleaner waters and a more plentiful supply of fish could be luring more sharks to the territory than at any time in the last 10 years, a media report said on Sunday.
The main beach at Stanley,...
We're here on Tioman Island for the kick off of the Tioman Mega Dive. Unfortunately, we're not going to be diving for more than two days while out here, but we're having a great time and enjoying...
In the longest running study on how fish populations in coral reef systems recover from heavy exploitation, researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and others have found that the...
The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is considered the worldus largest coral reef system. It is home to the highest marine biodiversity in the planet. Every diverus dream is to explore this great...
The North Sulawesi Watersports Association (NSWA)has long been aware that the Sea Turtles, which are attracted to the long sandy beaches of Bunaken Marine Park on Indonesia's Siladen Island, are on...
A total of 49 foreign fishermen, allegedly caught fishing illegally in waters off northwestern Australia, have been taken to Darwin.
The men, understood to be Indonesian, were on six fishing...
A hammerhead shark was discovered lying dead in fishing nets in a designated marine park off Hurghada in the Egyptian Red Sea by divers this week. A technical diving instructor and his three...
The North Sulawesi Watersports Association (NSWA)has long been aware that the Sea Turtles, which are attracted to the long sandy beaches of Bunaken Marine Park on Indonesia's Siladen Island, are on...
Over 200 sea turtle scientists and conservationists are adding their voices to the international call urging the President of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias S?nchez, to save critical leatherback sea...
International marine and port experts converged on Townsville in Australia recently to discuss guidelines for port construction and dredging to avoid harm to coral reefs.
The Great Barrier Reef...
This rare sighting of a living frilled shark in such shallow waters was firstly reported to marine park scientists by a fisherman. The incredible video of the prehistoric shark was definitely very...
Netrani Island, a coral reef, 18 km off Murdeshwar in the Arabian Sea, will be a national marine park, according to a proposal to be submitted to the Centre.
The island is unpolluted and the...
The 2007 Byron Underwater Festival will be held from Thursday the 10th to Sunday the 13th of May in Byron Bay, the most easterly point of the Australian mainland.
Julian Rocks is part of the new...
The Terengganu Fisheries Department on Friday detained three trawlers for encroaching the marine parks off Pulau Kapas, Marang and destroying about 50 artificial reefs costing more than RM250,000...
Rangers of a world-renowned marine park won a victory on Monday when 30 Chinese fishermen were apprehended for poaching protected fish species and were brought to the provincial jail in Puerto...
Environmental groups and beleaguered rangers of the Tubbataha National Marine Park on Friday challenged President Arroyo to stand firm in the case of a 30-man Chinese crew caught with hundreds of...
A fish that gatecrashed an experiment in Australia's Great Barrier Reef has surprised scientists by emerging as an unexpected weapon against the worldwide decline of coral reefs.
Scientists from...
When the Marine Conservation Board (MCB) voted earlier this year to remove eleven of the twenty-two dive moorings in the Bloody Bay Marine Park (BBMP), a debate was set in motion between two...
A baby beluga whale born in a Spanish marine park - the first beluga whale born in captivity in Europe - has died at the age of 25 days.
Officials at the Oceanographic park in Valencia said...
An underwater marine park for divers, enclosed in a netted area the size of a football pitch, may be constructed off the coast of Malta if plans are given the go-ahead by the country's government....
My first encounter with a dolphin was while l was waiting at the Shimoni pier to sail across to Wasini island.
It was a split second sighting as the dolphin dived out of the water and...
The drab section of coral reef off Kenya's coast is called Starfish, but there are no starfish to be found. There are no magnificently coloured coral here. Patches of thorny sea-urchins lurk in the...
Scientists are considering a plan to make the water of the Great Barrier Reef cooler for vulnerable corals, as part of a solution to climate change.
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority...
Nearly every day since the first week in September, fishermen have been driving pods of dolphins into quiet coves near the village of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, to kill them for their meat,...
The following is a "full" report of our expedition to Indonesia. Some of what I've included was already posted in the blog (e.g. Bunaken marine park fee), so I apologize for the duplication of info...
Innovative strategies to conserve the world's coral reefs are included in a new guide released today by NOAA, the Australian Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and The World Conservation...
A tsunami's impact on a coral reef is slight compared to the devastation wreaked by human use of explosives and poison, latest research from the coast of Aceh in Indonesia has disclosed.
A new...
When we first got to Bunaken and paid the Bunaken National Marine Park entrance fee during registration with the dive resort, I wondered what the fee was used for. I remember at the time thinking...
The Wilderness Society, Newcastle is touting a groundbreaking report released by Australian scientists as shoiing overwhelming evidence that 'no-take' areas in Marine Parks increase fish catch and...
Today we're going to discuss Marine Protected Areas (or MPA's, or marine reserves, or marine parks as they are also known). MPAs are sections of the ocean protected from fishing; by protecting the...
The Brazilian government has created an official buffer zone around the Abrolhos National Marine Park to protect the biologically richest coral reefs in the South Atlantic.
The buffer zone,...
Following a meeting of the Marine Conservation Board (MCB) on 31 March, two more watersports businesses were granted commercial licenses to dive in the Marine Park off the coast of Little Cayman....
Resort operators have been given one week to notify their guests of the directive.
The move follows a recommendation from the Fisheries Department that the use of flippers had damaged corals at...
Hundreds of humphead wrasse were released back into the waters of the Bunaken National Marine Park after being confiscated from a fisherman who was intending to illegally sell the...
Q. Is there a company in Perth, Australia, that can arrange a two-day side trip to Ningaloo Reef Marine Park? I'd like to swim with a whale shark.
Ningaloo Reef Marine Park in Western Australia...
Greenpeace has apologised to the Philippines and "mother nature" for the damage caused by its flagship Rainbow Warrior II to a coral reef.
The 55-metre schooner ran aground at...
Australia was feted by the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) Gift to Earth Award for its efforts to keep the Great Barrier Reef protected as a marine park zone by implementing special regulations last...
Bangkok, Thailand - Two new surveys of Thailand's coral reefs show the impact of the Asian tsunami was highly varied, but with most damage identified within the country's national marine parks....
