Coral Reefs: Unraveling the Web

Can you… unravel the coral reef food web? In this video about Unraveling the Coral Reef Food Web, you’ll learn how the coral reef ecosystem supports millions of different creatures through a complex chain of interdependent food chains. Coral reefs …

Coral Reef Zones

Do you know… what are coral reef zones? In this Coral Reef Zones video, you’ll learn how scientists divide coral reefs into zones, what the zones are, and what criteria they base these divisions upon. Scientists divide coral reefs into …

What Do Corals Eat?

Do you know… what do corals eat? In this What Do Corals Eat video, you’ll learn about what types of food sources corals eat and how. Coral polyps are mostly stomach, with a mouth on top. Symbiotic algae, zooxanthellae, live …

Where Are Coral Reefs Found?

Do you know… where are coral reefs found? In this Where Are Coral Reefs Found video, you’ll learn where reef-building corals live and thrive on the planet to create the beautiful coral reefs we’ve come to know and love. Although …

What are Corals?

In this What are Corals video, you’ll learn what corals really are. Corals are animals. An individual coral’s body, called a polyp, is mostly stomach, with a mouth on top. Its mouth is ringed with tentacles – but these just …

2015 Annual Report

2015 marked an important milestone in our Foundation’s life – completion of the field-work for our Global Reef Expedition (GRE). We circumnavigated the globe on the GRE, engaged with 15 different countries and surveyed 97 islands and over 1,000 individual reefs. However, …

Coral Reefs: Trouble in Paradise Film

Coral Reefs: Trouble in Paradise Film by Living Oceans Foundation tells the story of an international scientific team in the Chagos Archipelago, a tropical paradise in the British Indian Ocean Territory with some of the healthiest coral reefs on the planet. …

Coral Reefs: Trouble in Paradise

  Coral Reefs: Trouble in Paradise tells the story of an international scientific team in the Chagos Archipelago, a tropical paradise in the British Indian Ocean Territory with some of the healthiest coral reefs on the planet. Initially, the scientists …

El Niño’s warmth devastates reefs worldwide

This article on how El Niño’s warmth devastates reefs worldwide, published in Science magazine, references Living Oceans Foundation Coral Reef Ecologist Alex Dempsey and focuses on the impact to the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) which the Foundation surveyed as part of …