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Latest from Vanuatu Environmental Science Society (VESS)

📰 Update · May 4

It is time for the 2025 Sea Slug Census!

📰 Update · Sep 5

VESS is recruiting – We are looking for a scientist to work on our plastic, bat and turtle projects

📰 Update · May 8

The Ocean Film Festival World Tour comes to Vanuatu

📰 Update · Mar 30

Dates for the 2024 Sea Slug Census are 11th to 19th May

📰 Update · Nov 18

Join conservation organisations documenting biodiversity in the southern hemisphere during the Great Southern Bioblitz

📰 Update · Oct 16

Results of the International Coastal Cleanup 2023

📰 Update · Sep 3

Litter data show plastic bans are working

📰 Update · Jun 9

Daisy the Dugong advocates for protecting her species in an animation first for Vanuatu

VESS: Citizen Scientists Mapping Vanuatu's Hidden Marine Biodiversity

Ocean Life

🇻🇺 Vanuatu

Volunteer divers photographing sea slugs and dugongs are helping Vanuatu chart marine life it has never formally recorded.

336observationsSea slug observations logged in 2024 census
41speciesSea slug species identified in 2024 census
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