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The 11th Our Ocean Conference closed in Mombasa, Kenya, on 18 June 2026 with more than 300 voluntary commitments and US$6.4 billion mobilised for ocean conservation across marine protected areas, fisheries monitoring, cl…
Most of us picture "breaking down" as disappearing. A banana peel rots, a paper bag pulps apart, and within weeks nature has reclaimed them. Plastic doesn't play by those rules. When a bottle or a fishing net ends up in…
Along the shores of Mida Creek in Watamu on Kenya's Indian Ocean coast, fishers and fishmongers are confronting a combination of declining stocks, warming waters, destructive fishing practices, and growing competition fo…
The Marine Conservation Institute recognised six marine protected areas as Blue Parks at the Our Ocean conference in Mombasa on 16 June 2026, honouring sites in Madagascar, Senegal, Chile, and Canada whose management has…
Every year since before living memory, hundreds of people on the Farasan Islands in the Red Sea wade into the water to catch longnose parrotfish, known locally as hareed, which gather at Al-Hasis Beach in a dense aggrega…
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