Happy #WorldArtDay ! Today we celebrate the artists who open our eyes to the beauty and fragility of our planet 🎨✨🌍

Wild and free as they should be. Happy #DolphinDay ! 🐬💙

🎥: ashhammv

Happy #DolphinDay ! Did you know the names for 'dolphin' in these languages? 🐬🗣️👇

Tiny particles, big problem.... Microplastics have now been found in clouds ☁️💔🥤

‼️ BREAKING: UK Cod is being put at grave risk by government-set catch limits that are too high

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Unreported and unregulated fishing is destroying the ocean. The Tuna Transparency Pledge aims to tackle just this, looking to secure 100% monitoring on vessels by 2027, which will help prevent bycatch and overfishing.

Help get #EyesOnTuna today 👇🎣

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A flotilla of swordfish, a shiver of sharks or a squad of squid... Which is your favourite? 🤩👇🐡

Happy #NationalSiblingsDay ! Just as polar bear cubs' tussles are crucial for learning survival skills, our sibling rivalries and relationships help us navigate the big world out there 🐻‍❄️💕🤗

📸: Daniel D'Auria

Whales and dolphins will be recognised as having the same rights as humans, in a bid to better protect them. Indigenous leaders across the Pacific have granted these ocean creatures rights in the same way as people, in a vital conservation step 🐬🐋🙌

telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/0…

🎉 Belize joins Palau🇵🇼 and Chile🇨🇱 in the #RaceForRatification .

'Its efforts have earned Belize a reputation as a world leader in ocean conservation. We hope other countries will be inspired by Belize’s leadership' Bec Hubbard #HighSeasTreaty
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A critically endangered white spotted wedgefish and his cleaner fish entourage. A gang we’d love to join! 🐟🦈😎

🎥: Jake Mason

The climate seer of our time - Carl Sagan. Watch him testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change 🌍👇🔮

🎥: C-SPAN

🐧 African Penguins need your help! 🚨

At their current rate of population decrease 📉, conservationists predict that this iconic species will be extinct in the wild by 2035 😢.

Unless we take action now: birdlife.org.za/african-pengui… 👈

Say hello to the hairy frogfish, our #OceanAnimalOfTheMonth ! These fish aren't only masters of disguise, but they're also ambush predators, luring prey with a fishing rod-like appendage atop their heads 🌊🐸🐡

📸: Byron Conroy

See orcas in a new light: nurturing, protective, and surprisingly affectionate 🌊🖤

🎥: Domenic Biagini

Just 25 years ago, there were 42,768 breeding pairs of African penguins in South Africa. Now. only 8,534 remain 🐧💔👇 #SaveTheAfricanPenguin

Life really did begin in the sea... Check out this beautifully preserved fossil of an octopus found in a 165 million-year-old rock from France 🤩🐙🦖

📸: Isabelle Kruta et al. 2016

NEW SPECIES ALERT: Scientists have discovered a new species of seahorse roaming the seas.

Meet plastiquaria driftus – the deadliest predator out there... 🌊🙁🪥

A clownfish crèche. Sea anemones really are the perfect shelter for young fish! 🪸🐠

🎥: Ondřej Hynar

Happy Friday everyone! 🌊💙🐬