We are thrilled to announce the release of the 2025 Threatened Species Index! The latest data indicate that threatened and near-threatened species in Australia have declined by an average of 75% since 1985. View the latest trends here: tsx.org.au/tsx2025 @tern-aus.bsky.social 🦎🐸🐦🌿🐨

'American Samoa is a showcase of a wealthy nation's tendency to outsource the burdens of environmental conservation. The asymmetric imposition of the will of the powerful to use the less privileged as sacrificial zones for virtue-signalling policies' www.franciscoblaha.info/blog/2025/11...

Here’s what would happen if we replaced all the protein humans get from fishing with land-based farming for meat. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧪🦑🌎🐠

Shark Conservation Advances at International Atlantic Tuna Conference | Fishing nations agree to protect basking and white sharks, cut mako quotas, and improve compliance process sharkleague.org/2025/11/24/s...

#EPBC Reminder to @albomp.bsky.social gov tt the vast majority of Australians care very much abt the impact we're having on nature & the climate & want & absolutely deserve meaningful leadership & action from those elected to represent them Will you rise to the occasion or treat voters w contempt❓

Today is World Fisheries Day, a time to highlight the importance of responsible fishing from the IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group.

You don't have to be an Einstein to figure this out. But... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Soc...

Since petrostate Saudi Arabia and its efforts to sabotage the #COP30 climate summit is currently in the news, an excerpt from #ScienceUnderSiege by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & yours truly: bookshop.org/p/books/scie...

$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action - Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on? #COP30 #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

🌊🌱🐠 WAN KABU KA project funded by @blueactionfund.org supports marine conservation, Indigenous rights & sustainable livelihoods. 💙 Watch their video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=70Zu... 👉 Grant Fact Sheet: l1nq.com/z6vxl #OceanOptimism

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp lies about whether it lies about the climate crisis. Via @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/environment/... #ScienceUnderSiege #NewsCorpse

📣 Announcement! Abstract Submission Deadline Extended to November 30, 2025 Being guilty of last minute submissions ourselves, we felt that a few more days would help those of you processing your abstract ideas! 👉 si2026.org

The US is moving forward with offshore mineral plans that will impact the economy and environment of the Northern Mariana Islands. pacific.scoop.co.nz/2025/11/us-a...

An amazing success story: the recovery of humpback whales 50-60 years after we stopped whaling on them.

NEW data | Less than 50% of Australia's electricity generation came from fossil fuels in October 🇦🇺⚡️ This was the first month ever where renewables have overtaken fossil fuels in Australia's electricity mix. 10 years ago, in October 2015, fossil fuels made up 86%.

PhD position - Changing Ecological Role of Coral Reef Marine Protected Areas. One of the new @exageo-dla.bsky.social advertised projects: www.exageo.org/phd-student-... - deadline for applications 9th January. International applications welcome. Come and join us @lec-reefs.bsky.social

Composition and conservation status of rays sold in Baja California Sur, Mexico 🦑🌿🐟🦈 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

NEW PAPER: Survival and recovery of three shark species in North-East Atlantic recreational fisheries. academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti... @garzonfrancesco.bsky.social @drmjwitt.bsky.social 🦑🐟🧪🌐🌊🎣

"[A]s for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear ... that they are US citizens or otherwise legally in the United States" 🙄 #KavanaughStop

FINAL DEADLINE | 15 NOVEMBER 2025 Reminder that abstract submissions for Sharks International 2026 are still open for 2 weeks! In Sri Lanka, the IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group will be hosting the session: “Advancing Area-Based Management for Chondrichthyans: Challenges and Opportunities.”

Here is a continuation of my musings on creating "ocean stewardship" zones —High Seas pockets within the FFA membership—governed by Pacific Island states and their people. These MPAs could be based on traditional marine tenure systems. www.franciscoblaha.info/blog/2025/11...

📣 New Science Alert! Bycatch in tropical tuna fisheries is a major threat to manta and devil rays. A new study by Cronin et al. (2025) explores a fisher-designed solution: the mobulid sorting grid, which allows rapid and safe release of these rays. 🔗 research.mantatrust.org/publications

When I say that Trump and his petrostate/plutocrat overlords are a threat to humanity, I mean it #ScienceUnderSiege www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

If you're in Ensenada, come to my keynote this arvo at the Mexican Chondrichthyan Society where I'll give an overview of the shark research we do at WA Fisheries

We applied a multi level weight of evidence approach (from catch only modelling to fully integrated population dynamics modelling) to assess the risk of all shark and ray species (>100) interacting with fisheries in Western Australia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fisheries management can work. Check out this recent example where following several decades of fisheries management (including the establishment of massive spatial closures, e.g. 0.8 million km2) affected shark stocks have recovered onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#conservation.optimism Most shark and ray species in Western Australia, a global biodiversity hotspot, have low risk to overfishing onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Several years in the making but we managed to assess the risk to the sustainability of all sharks and rays (>100 species) interacting with fisheries in Western Australia: spoiler, the vast majority of species are doing well! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Turning greywater into drinking water? That’s what Noemi Florea, one of the 2025 #YoungChamps of the Earth 🎉, is doing with her innovation Cycleau, a compact system that removes 200+ contaminants, cuts water use by 80% and lowers energy demand by a third. tinyurl.com/2jzrc9h7 #GenerationRestoration

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

Read my review of John Long’s book The Secret History of Sharks in @currentbiology.bsky.social A fascinating read about the deep history of sharks, the scientists who study them, and the adventures they have in the quest to learn more. authors.elsevier.com/a/1luVG3QW8S...

The ocean gives us food, oxygen, livelihoods, and climate regulation. But it’s under threat from overfishing, climate change, pollution, and habitat loss. When our ocean is in crisis, so are we. Protecting it means protecting life itself. Learn more: www.unep.org/explore-topi...

The Spatial Distribution Dynamics of Shark Bycatch by the Longline Fishery in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean

Bright spots with some science-based fisheries management measure benefiting sharks & rays: 1. USA & Canada 2. NE Atlantic 3. S. Africa 4. Australia & New Zealand #OceanOptimism @nancyknowlton.bsky.social @joshuacinner.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... 🧵15/20

In the Philippines, there are 10 designated ISRAs. Swipe left to learn more about the shark and ray species in these individual sites. © Marine Wildlife Watch of the Philippines #shark #ray #chimaera #ISRA #ISRAlOPH #SharksPH #ConservePHsharks #sharkada

Did you know that there's a whole treaty dedicated to migratory animals, such as whales, birds, and butterflies? The @cms.int is the only international convention specialising in the conservation and sustainable use of migratory animals and their habitats. More info: www.cms.int/what-are-mig...

This year, at WRT, we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of Love Our Wetlands Waiheke (LOWW). To further expand our planting efforts, for every $15 you donate, we plant one tree. This month, your donation is doubled! That’ll give us two trees for $15! Help us via the link loww.raiselysite.com

New paper led by @seaprinceaaron.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social looking at the threats deep sea mining poses for sharks, rays, and chimaeras. We found 30 species are threatened via various pathways including collector impact and plumes at depth and pelagic discharge plumes.

Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science

OPEN CALL | Session at Sharks International 2026 (SI2026) 🦈 Abstract submissions for SI2026 are officially open! The IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group is thrilled to host the session: “Leveraging Important Shark and Ray Areas (ISRAs) for Policy Action.”

I've submitted my abstract, fingers crossed!

I am not anti-fishing. I am not anti- shark fishing. But hammerheads in particular are species of significant conservation concern, and one of the worst candidates for “catch and release” of any known fish species. And it’d be nice if media coverage *of hammerhead fishing* mentioned that

NEW: Nature trained AI to predict which NIH grants from 2014 would have been cut if the Trump admin had its way back then — and what science would have been lost to history. "The results show the damage that cuts in funding can do to research, and the unpredictable nature of the research process."

Happy to share that @taorminalepore.bsky.social and I are featured in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social's continuing series sharing disabled scientists in ecology and evolution spaces! www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

A landmark scientific workshop has identified 124 Important Shark and Ray Areas (ISRAs) across the European Atlantic, providing the first comprehensive map of critical habitats for threatened species such as Basking Shark, Tope, Spiny Dogfish, Sicklefin Devil Ray, and Angelshark.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

I don't think many people realize that Canadian companies own something like 75% of the mines in the world.

🦈 “New research shows critically endangered eastern grey nurse shark numbers are increasing on the east coast of Australia.” 🦑 🤿 🌊 🧪 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...