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After a near two-decade absence, the East Coast Humpback Whale Survey was recently concluded in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, whose ocean component forms one of only 49 UNESCO Marine World Heritage Sites globally. iSimangaliso’s whale season is from June to December annually, when migrating humpback whales...

The youth shone a light on the importance of Marine Protected Areas with an evening of original poetry, inspiration and a spotlight performance at the WILDOCEANS Ocean Stewards’ Dinner on the Dock event held at Trawlers Wharf last week, launching a week of mentorship and...

Looking into our status of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) the sobering reality remains that only 0.4% of our oceans around South Africa are protected, compared to a global target of at least 10%, to which our government have committed to. In an attempt to proactively...

South Africa currently has a network of 23 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) covering only 0.4 % of the oceans around South Africa. This is far short of the global target of at least 10% protection of the oceans by 2020 - to which South Africa...

CITIZENS SAY NO TO OIL AND GAS DRILLING 'Not off our coast' Lyse Comins KwaZulu-Natal residents and environmental groups united in vehement opposition against plans to explore and drill for oil and gas off the province's coast, highlighting devastating environmental disasters during oil and gas operations...

DEA fails to protect oceans the commitment to expand SA's network of marine protected areas is in murky water write Mervyn Naidoo and Fred Kockott THE Department of Environmental Affairs has made a big song and dance about how it intends to comply with international...

Eight years ago, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, killing 11 people, pouring 5 million barrels of oil into the ocean and contaminating over 1,700 kilometres of America’s coastal wetlands and beaches. It was one of the worst environmental...

To conserve the world’s oceans, we must go beyond science, and use it to inform policy and management, and ultimately to catalyse change. The Society for Conservation Biology's International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC) brings together conservation professionals and students to develop new and powerful tools...

On the 20th of March 2018, Brazil announced the designation of four new marine protected areas (MPAs) around the Trindade-Martin Vaz and the São Pedro and São Paulo Archipelagos, two regions in the South Atlantic. The four new MPAs cover an area of more than 900,000...