Witnessed at Walthamstow Wetlands yesterday: the astonishing sight of a peregrine falcon carrying its kingfisher prey! 📷 by Max Li Pang Walthamstow Wetlands

New paper 🚨 Nature Communications Pinniped recovery creates challenges for fisheries. We map conflict hotspots and advocate for equitable management. With Katrina Davis John Jackson Rodrigo Oyanedel nature.com/articles/s4146… ICCS Petri Suuronen Humboldt-Stiftung Robert Arlinghaus

Online now: The overlooked biodiversity loss dlvr.it/TCWlDV

Some great sawfish images in this nice article by SARA - Sharks and Rays Australia

SOSF project leader, Nikki Biskis (@unisunshinecoast & SARA - Sharks and Rays Australia) is using chemical traces in sawfish teeth to trace their origins - a new technique for sharks & rays - & one that aids in their conservation. More on this fascinating process below. saveourseas.com/update/unveili…

Effects of marine debris and human interactions on the smalltooth sawf... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🐟📜Thrilled to be leading this exciting cross-disciplinary marine historical ecology project with Co-Is Jan Geert Hiddink ISWE Dr Lee Raye Bangor University Ocean Sciences ukri.org/news/first-pro…

📚 #Shark & #ray non-fin commodities are important to #fisheries, trade, & coastal livelihoods. Explore this series to understand these markets in #Peru, #India, #Indonesia, & #Mexico, and see how holistic management can support effective conservation 👉 bit.ly/4cTfu14

Excited to present my MScRes project as a poster (39) at #CoimbraSeabirds this evening - using DNA Metabarcoding of buccal and cloacal swabs in combination with Stable Isotope Analysis to study adult guillemot diet on Puffin Island 🧬 🐟 🐧 Come and say hi! 👋🏼 The Seabird Group

🚨Just launched: The Atlas of Ungulate Migration!🚨 Explore the epic migrations of Mongolian Gazelle, Saiga, Tibetan antelope & Wildebeest Created by global experts with Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), it could be a game changer for conservation 🌿 Discover more: cms.int/en/news/un-lau…

RAYmarkable footage from Tonga Trench! The genus 𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘺𝘳𝘢𝘫𝘢 has over 50 species with some reaching depths of up to 3000 metres. Alan Jamieson UWA Oceans Institute Inkfish School of Biological Sciences, UWA #rays #deepsea

Issah Seidu discusses the pioneering efforts of the AquaLife Conservancy in Ghana to transform elasmobranch conservation in West Africa. By partnering with local fishers, they are working towards establishing a new narrative around sharks and rays. saveourseas.com/update/sharks-…

WISElab new paper alert!🎉 Weaving Indigenous and Western knowledge systems to discern drivers of mooz (moose) population decline. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pa…

Always great to see critically endangered White-spotted guitarfish hanging around at Heron Island Research Station. Just one of the many amazing animals students were exposed to during their Capstone projects. Despite looking very sharky, these animals are actually rays! Griffith Science & Environment

Interested in a cool ecology/oceanography PhD project with field work in beautiful sites in the Northern Territory, working with marine turtles using satellite telemetry? Then look no further! Check out the add attached! IMOS Animal Tracking Luciana Ferreira Rob Harcourt @ianjonsen.bsky.social

Just found this out🦈 Lufthansa have used shark skin technology on their Boeing 777F freighter fleet since 2023 to reduce drag by 1% for 10 planes = saving 4,000 tons of kerosene and almost 13,000 tons of CO2 emissions

We gathered centuries-old written records to show the seas around Wales once teemed with life bit.ly/3z5Wq27

The most interesting finding was the apparent energetic advantage of ambush hunting compared to cursorial hunting as carnivores become larger. Body-mass standardised biomass kill rates decline as ambush hunters get larger BUT increase for cursorial hunters. 10/n

This just out from our recent research shorturl.at/T0i5V

"We ignore the past at our peril." A master class in shifting baseline syndrome by Alec Moore - posing interesting possibilities about the environment of the Irish Sea and its fisheries. #highlyrecommended #Wales #Ireland #marine #fish #IrishSea