Please find our most recent press releases here.

• 2019

  Scientists complete largest comprehensive study of French Polynesia’s coral reefs

  The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation has released their findings from the largest coral reef survey and mapping expedition ever conducted in French Polynesia. The Global Reef Expedition: French Polynesia Final Report provides a comprehensive summary of the research findings from the expedition, an assessment of the health and resiliency of French Polynesia’s coral reefs, and recommendations for preserving French Polynesia’s coral reefs into the future.

• 2019

  Scientists Create Largest Collection of Coral Reef Maps Ever Made

  A study from scientists at the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation and the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science offers a new way to accurately map coral reefs using a combination of Earth-orbiting satellites and field observations. This first-ever global coral reef atlas contains maps of over 65,000 km2 of coral reefs and surrounding habitats. This is by far the largest collection of high-resolution coral reef maps ever made.

• 2019

  JAMAICAN STUDENT MANGROVE PROGRAM CELEBRATES 5 YEARS

  The Living Oceans Foundation has partnered with the Alligator Head Foundation to bring the J.A.M.I.N. Mangrove Education and Restoration Program to students in the greater Portland area of Jamaica. This partnership allows more students to participate in the J.A.M.I.N. program than ever before and brings together two organizations that share similar goals to provide educational opportunities for the nation’s youth.

• 2017

  New publication reveals the health of Fiji’s coral reefs

  The Global Reef Expedition Final Report: Lau Province, Fiji is the result of extensive scientific surveys conducted in 2013 by the Khaled bin Sultan Living Ocean Foundation and local partners. This report contains detailed scientific assessments of the health of coral reefs, surveys of the coral and fish communities, and detailed maps of shallow water marine habitats in the region.

• 2017

  How Close Are We to a Global Crash in Fish Populations?

  A new film by the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation and the Smithsonian Channel chronicles a scientist’s investigation to find out how much fish we have taken from the sea and determine how close we are to a global food catastrophe.

• 2016

  Living Oceans Foundation Announces UM Rosenstiel School Partnership

  Living Oceans Foundation Announces UM Rosenstiel School Partnership: New science collaboration will translate the five-year Global Reef Expedition dataset into insight about the current health of the world’s oceans.

• 2016

  Students from New Zealand and India win 2016 international art competition

  The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is proud to announce the winners of the 2016 Science Without Borders® Challenge, an international student art competition that highlights important ocean conservation issues. The theme for this year’s challenge was ‘Fishing Under the Radar’ and focused on illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.