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World Heritage in the High Seas: A New Ray…
The High Seas span our globe, covering half the earth. But they are unprotected. The UNESCO World Heritage Marine Programme, in close collaboration with IUCN, is exploring the potential of the 1972 World Heritage Convention to preserve places in areas …
www.livingoceansfoundation.org/publication/world-heritage-in-the-high-seas-a-new-ray-of-hope-for-our-ocean-commons/
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World Heritage in the High Seas: An Idea…
By Fanny Douvere, Head of UNESCO’s World Heritage Marine Programme Sunken coral islands, floating rainforests, giant undersea volcanoes or even spires of rock resembling sunken cities: none of these sites can be inscribed on the World Heritage List because they …
www.livingoceansfoundation.org/world-heritage-high-seas-idea-whose-time-come/
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World Heritage in the High Seas: An Idea…
By Fanny Douvere, Head of UNESCO’s World Heritage Marine Programme Sunken coral islands, floating rainforests, giant undersea volcanoes or even spires of rock resembling sunken cities: none of these sites can be inscribed on the World Heritage List because they …
www.livingoceansfoundation.org/world-heritage-high-seas-idea-whose-time-come/
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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, …
www.livingoceansfoundation.org/publication/2015-annual-report/
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Written by Alison Barrat Comparing a bleached anemone to the undead may be a bit of a stretch, but it is fair to say a bleached anemone is hovering somewhere between life and death and depending on what happens next, …
www.livingoceansfoundation.org/nemo-and-the-zombie-anemone/
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Our atlases of coral reefs and other shallow-water marine habitats are a showcase of our work in a region, containing comprehensive color maps of the seafloor along with a summary of our scientific findings on the health and resiliency of …
www.livingoceansfoundation.org/maps/atlases/
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Expedition Log: BIOT – Day 3 School is definitely in session here in Chagos! The fish team has had our hands full trying to identify, count, and size all the fish we’ve been seeing in our surveys. The reefs here …
www.livingoceansfoundation.org/schooling-fish-chagos/
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Expedition Log: BIOT – Day 1 We have just arrived at the Chagos Archipelago to study some of the most remote reefs on the planet for the latest leg of the Global Reef Expedition. M/Y Golden Shadow has just completed …
www.livingoceansfoundation.org/studying-climate-change-at-chagos/
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Restoring Jamaica’s Pedro Banks
Written by Elizabeth Rauer In the 1970’s, Jamaica’s reefs were the pride of the Caribbean, teaming with large fish that supported a vibrant tourism industry and provided seafood for local communities. But overfishing, disease, hurricanes, and development pressure degraded many …
www.livingoceansfoundation.org/restoring-jamaicas-pedro-banks/
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For our final Global Reef Expedition Mission, we traveled to the Chagos Archipelago, also known as the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), a small island chain in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Chagos is home to some of the most remote, …
www.livingoceansfoundation.org/global-reef-expedition/indian-ocean/biot/
