Field Notes

📸 Say hello to the magical Bigbelly seahorse, or Hippocampus abdominalis, logged onto iSeahorse by citizen scientist dtawse. 👀 Spot a seahorse too? Snap a photo and report your sighting to the iSeahorse project hosted on iNaturalist.org. Your photos can provide crucial data, helping our scientists fill research gaps to better protect seahorses and the seas.… Read more

After raising more than R9 million on its 2025 voyage, BirdLife South Africa and MSC Cruises will take birders back to sub-Antarctic Marion Island aboard the MSC Sinfonia in January 2028. Johannesburg, 30 October 2026 – BirdLife South Africa today announced Flock to Marion 2028, its fifth chartered birding voyage with MSC Cruises and its […]

Enjoy this Halloween sea turtle ASMR... Loggerheads are one of the spookiest species! . . . #seaturtles #halloween #asmr #shorts #wildlife

We all like turtles here at STC, so we had to bring back this gem from 2007 for Halloween 🧟🐢 • • . . . #seaturtles #iliketurtles #halloween #throwback

#ThrowbackThursday This week’s spotlight study estimated that fisheries in Thailand catch 29 million seahorses a year – over 3x previous estimates. The major contributors were both commercial and small-scale fisheries, both of which are turning into indiscriminate fisheries as they increasingly retain and sell non-target species. The study highlights the importance of precautionary measures, inclu

Our program leader, Dr. Sarah Foster, recently spoke with Monika Offenberger for the German magazine Natur about why seahorses matter, and what they can teach us about the bigger problems facing our oceans.… Read more

The Posidonia Conservation Project, developed by the Blue World Institute in collaboration with Seacology and with the support of the Mali Lošinj Tourist Board, has been selected among the Green Destinations Top 100 Stories 2026. The Lošinj archipelago …

The Nature Foundation Sint Maarten strongly supports the government’s plan to establish Sint Maarten’s first terrestrial park and looks forward to the upcoming timeline, stakeholder consultations, and legal protections. On October 21, Minister of VROMI Patrice Gumbs announced that approximately 17 hectares of land known as Rainforest land — spread across multiple parcels in the […]

It’s time to protect seamounts. Covering nearly 21% of the global seabed, seamounts are vital lifelines for our ocean. Yet destructive bottom trawling continues to threaten these vulnerable marine habitats. More than 400 scientists have signed a proclamation urging the United Nations to protect seamounts. As governments come together for the UN General Assembly’s sustainable fisheries resolution n

“. . . the one who knew to calculate the steely fluid of life, who with the greatest precision brushed with death on the fringe, who gave a number to tragedy, decimals to feelings, to vertigo a geometry, and height and weight to fear.” In “Some Toreadors,” 20th-century Modernist Brazilian Poet João Cabral de Melo Neto compares the brutality of bullfighting to the art and struggle of creating a poe

FKt260917 - The Romanche Fracture Zone #SamplingGap More expedition information: https://schmidtocean.org/cruise/life-at-the-romanche-fracture-zone/ More ROV SuBastian information: https://schmidtocean.org/technology/robotic-platforms/4500-m-remotely-operated-vehicle-rov/ _________ We livestream our ROV dives on YouTube and Twitch! Join us on our oceanographic missions on our other social media pl

Media Briefing: Protecting High-Seas Seamounts - A Call to End Bottom Trawling on High-Seas Seamounts by 2027 Seamounts cover an estimated 21% of the global seabed and are vital biodiversity hotspots. Protecting these vulnerable deep-sea ecosystems is a crucial opportunity to advance the global goal of protecting at least 30% of the ocean by 2030. Ahead of the UN General Assembly’s informal consul

Media advisory for immediate release – 21 October 2026 UN Sustainable Fisheries Resolution negotiations offer a critical opportunity to protect vulnerable deep-sea ecosystems, backed by growing scientific calls for action. Governments have an unmissable opportunity to protect some of the ocean’s most vulnerable ecosystems as UN Sustainable Fisheries Resolution negotiations take place at UN Headqua

From furniture and doors to decks and marine applications, Promac Paints’ Yes! Wood range protects and enhances wood. And we’re not only invested in quality finishes … we’re also invested in our bio-future; every purchase contributes to BirdLife South Africa’s work to protect birds and their habitat

Secretarybirds build large stick nests in trees and shrubs scattered across South Africa's open landscapes. As the breeding season continues, BirdLife South Africa is encouraging the public to help locate these important nesting sites and contribute to their long-term monitoring.

Sea Shepherd’s top priority is the protection of the Vaquita porpoise. Since 2015, our crews, vessels and technology have worked with the Government of Mexico to locate Vaquitas and keep the Vaquita Refuge free of gillnets.

Workers are completing excavation and preparing the staging area for the buildings and marine operations area.

Profepa seized the Gypsea, the Seamaster and El Abuelo after they anchored at Isla Pájaros, a protected nesting island in Scorpion Reef. Our crew helped detect the boats and supported the inspections.