Divers can help by reporting location of ghost netsIt was a successful start to the campaign: A big trawl net and gillnet weighing about 1.5 tons wer...

The amount of fishing that actually takes place is actually being under-reported; so much so that about a fifth of the fish stocks worldwide comes f...

Increasing fish imports leads to a need for more responsible fishing The annual meeting of the German fishing industry is taking place in Rostock,...

Something new in the East! A crocodile lizard, a snail-eating turtle, and a bat that looks like a character from a Star Wars movie – these are ju...

Vaquitas to be tracked by dolphins and kept in holding pens The Mexican government is using dolphins trained by the US Navy to try and save the vaq...

Researchers tag fish with satellite trackers After an absence of more than 50 years, the endangered bluefin tuna has returned to the North Sea. A j...

First shark nets dismantled After the fourth incident earlier in 2017 involving an endangered humpback dolphin (Sousa plumbea) in a shark net off R...

Half of the world's mangroves already destroyed, says WWF on World Mangrove Day Today, on World Mangrove Day (26 July 2017), the WWF issues a warni...

Kelp forests Not many divers from Europe know this part of the world. The flight from Europe passes over a number of tropical dream destinations – ...

World's smallest porpoise faces extinction threatBased on the current numbers, the population of vaquitas (the world's smallest porpoises) fell by 50...

WWF report: Improving fishing management imperative for global food security By 2050, millions of people in the global South (in developing countr...

Model Barbara Meier is the new project ambassador for the WWF campaign against ghost nets Model and actress Barbara Meier is the new project ambas...

No hope left for the remaining dolphinsThe Irrawaddy dolphin has lost the battle for survival in Laos. The WWF declared the species functionally ext...

Belize begins seismic surveys at the World Natural Heritage Site of the Belize Barrier Reef In late October 2016, Belize announced plans to conduct...

CITES voted yesterday (4th October) on proposals to list silky sharks, all three species of thresher sharks and all nine species of mobula rays on A...

Demands on natural resources have exceeded available resources since yesterday This year, Earth Overshoot Day fell on 8 August 2016. On that day, t...

Gillnets banned in part of Gulf of California There’s good news for the world’s smallest living – and most endangered – cetacean: The Mexi...

Scientists suggest revision of maximum catch quotas Cod is the great predator of the Baltic Sea and the main fish stock for German coastal fisherm...

New hope for Mekong River's dolphinsNewly born calf spotted with mother: Break out the cigars and champagne: A young dolphin calf and her mother have...

Park is home to 80,000 people and has more than 250 species of hard corals The Sabah State Government has established a marine conservation reserv...

The Baltic Sea can breathe easy in the future. From 2019 onwards, cruise ships and passenger ferries are no longer permitted to discharge untreated ...

German environmental organisations have called for a more effective level of marine protection in the North and Baltic Sea by Federal Minister of Fo...

A high demand for shark fins from Asian countries has been considered to be a major cause of the overfishing of sharks. However, recent findings hav...

For several years, blue whales are more frequently being sighted in European waters, be it off the coast of England, in the Azores or the Canaries I...

Following a meeting last Thursday, the EU fisheries ministers have agreed on the maximum catch limits for cod for the Baltic Sea in 2016, setting it a...

The third global spate of coral bleaching currently taking place may affect almost 38 percent of all the coral reefs worldwide. Publishing their findi...

Almost one-third of all 229 UNESCO Natural World Heritage Sites worldwide are being threatened by mining activity and the extraction of fossil fuels, ...