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Fishing nets are just one of many problems the humpback whale population faces along the Pacific Coast, and a conservation group says the Trump administration is not doing enough to protect the whale"s habitat.Click on the link below to read the full article.

This study contributes to the spatial-temporal understanding of human visitation and distribution patterns in protected areas by leveraging digital footprints, manifested as publicly shared geotagged photos, as an efficient spatial data source to (1) model spatial distributions of visitor us

A notable intervention conceived by marine scientists to arrest the deteriorating quality of ocean habitats and declining resources is the establishment of marine protected areas (MPAs).Click on the link below to read the full article.

Learn why the children of Palau have written a pledge that every visitor to their home has to take. Palau is the first nation on earth to change its immigration laws for the cause of environmental protection.

Earlier this month, more than 80 million people in China watched the BBC"s Blue Planet II " enough to slow down the entire country"s internet when it was streamed online.

The Ocean Foundation and The Boyd Lyon Sea Turtle Fund seek applicants for the Boyd N. Lyon Scholarship, for the academic year 2018. This Scholarship was created in honor of the late Boyd N.

On November 29, government officials declared the establishment of the Managalas Conservation Area. It is Papua New Guinea"s largest conservation area, encompassing 3,600 square kilometers of rainforest.Click on the link below to read the full article.

The western and central Pacific Ocean is home to the world"s most productive tuna fisheries, supplying global markets with canned tuna, sashimi and other tuna products...Conservation is increasingly a concern as some tuna and associated species are threatened by overfishing. Click on the lin

If MPAs and the ecosystems and species within them had a legal right to be healthy and managed well, what effect would this have on sites" According to a campaign that proposes such legal rights, one outcome would be the end of the problem of paper parks.Click on the link below to read the full a

Global gathering to tackle coral reef crisis Current and emerging leaders converged in the Great Barrier Reef to learn and share ideas for tackling the crucial challenge of protecting coral reefs as part of the 2017 International Coral Reef Mana... More detail