Managing an Outbreak
Best management practices for combating an outbreak of Crown of Thorns Starfish, the voracious coral predator...
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Charting a Sustainable Future for UNESCO World Heritage Marine Sites
Alison Barrat
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World Heritage in the High Seas: An Idea Whose Time has Come
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Amy Heemsoth
Coral Reef Education Portal
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Coral Reef Education Portal
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is proud to launch our brand new Coral Reef Education Portal! This custom-built online platform contains a comprehensive coral reef curriculum complete with lesson plans, quizzes, educational videos, interactives, and games designed to educate people about life on coral reefs.
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2015 Annual Report
2015 marked an important milestone in our Foundation’s life – completion of the field-work for our Global Reef Expedition (GRE). However, the project is far from over as we bear down on the ominous task of analyzing the many terabytes of data we collected in five years.
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The Third UNESCO World Heritage Marine Site Managers Conference
This year's conference in the Galapagos Islands brought together managers of the most special marine places that we have on the planet. These managers solve conservation issues every day and the conference was designed to share ideas and solutions with other site managers from around the world.
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Filming in Dakar for An Ocean Mystery: The Missing Catch
Living Oceans Foundation Communications Director, Alison Barrat, heads to the Dakar, Senegal to co-produce a film for the Smithsonian Channel about the real quantity of fish we catch around the world.
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In the News
KSLOF Mangrove Education and Restoration Program is featured in Seven Seas Magazine...
World Heritage in the High Seas: A New Ray of Hope for Our Ocean Commons...
Science Without Borders®
Science Without Borders® is the overarching theme of the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation. It provides financial sponsorship of marine conservation programs and scientific research around the globe, and raises awareness of the need to preserve, protect and restore the world's oceans and aquatic resources.
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Crown of Thorns Starfish (COTS)
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation recently launched the Starfish Control and Removal (SCAR) Program to combat outbreaks of the deadly coral predator: Crown of Thorns Starfish (COTS). The new program will remove COTS during an outbreak, train others to do so, and provide a global database on COTS outbreaks.
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Science without Borders® Challenge
The 2017 SWB Challenge® is now OPEN! Primary and secondary school students 11-19 years old, are invited to enter their artwork for the theme “Reef SuperSpecies” with scholarships of up to $500 awarded to the winning entries.
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