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The Locally Managed Marine Area (LMMA) Network has launched an ambitious €4.4 million (US$5.1 million) project in partnership with the Pacific Community (SPC), aiming to bring decades of learning from community-based marine management efforts to scale in the Pacific Islands.

As the world focuses on the coronavirus pandemic, many experts are warning of a far more dangerous threat - climate change.

Three people were injured last month in separate humpback whale encounters off the Western Australia coast. The incidents happened during snorkelling tours on Ningaloo Reef when swimmers came too close to a mother and her calf.

A 17-meter-long and 3-meter-wide adult sperm whale was spotted on Eton Beach last week, its carcass beached, leaving the Chief of the community claiming its remains.

Plant and animal species across the world are steadily disappearing due to human activity.

For the first time, scientists have viewed the deepest regions of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, discovered five un-described species consisting of black corals and sponges, and recorded Australia's first observation of an extremely rare fish.

Viruses love bats. The flying nocturnal mammals make outstanding hosts because — just like people — they live in large, dense groups, their air travel spreads germs between populations and their longevity enables a virus to persist for years in an individual animal.

Forest & Bird's CEO Kevin Hague believes the way New Zealand commercial fishers take fish from the sea is not in any way sustainable...he says: "The entire commercial fishing system is set up to extract as much as possible for as long as possible from the ocean at the expense of the ocean and

Upcoming elections and the economic impact of COVID-19 have put higher pressure on the Palau National Marine Sanctuary (PNMS) to pay off in creating more sustainable pelagic fishing sources for Palau.

Humans are dismantling and disrupting natural ecosystems around the globe and changing Earth’s climate. Over the past 50 years, actions like farming, logging, hunting, development and global commerce have caused record losses of species on land and at sea.