Are whale sharks whales or sharks? Let’s get that cleared up first and foremost, whale sharks are sharks and the largest fish that exists today. Whale sharks

It’s that time of the year again, the day allocated to celebrate the world’s largest fish, the whale shark. It’s a species of superlatives that

Like it or not, the international trade of shark and ray products is a world-wide industry. Countries that plan to export shark meat, fins, or

Shark Awareness Day 2022 Learn more about our work with emblematic shark species of the MesoAmerican Reef Sharks can be found in every ocean of

Ivan the loving logger “Over there…OMG it’s a huge logger…wait, there are two loggers!” I yelled out to my teammates as we hauled ourselves into

WATCH THE FULL EPISODE We are delighted to announce that our work understanding, monitoring and protecting marine megafauna in the MesoAmerican Reef will be broadcasted

After seven years of scientific monitoring of critically endangered hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) at Coiba National Park, it is still unclear where are the main

  Today, as Sea Turtle week comes to an end, Panama lies on the center stage of turtle conservation in the Americas, as it proudly

‘Aba’ means “one” in the Emberá language spoken by the people that live in the remote Darien province and indigenous territories in eastern Panama. This

As the northern Hemisphere summer segways into fall we are grateful for a season that saw dynamic field work in full swing. We completed our

There is a common term in fisheries science that was popularized by Dr. Daniel Pauly and colleagues: “Fishing down the food web.” At its simplest,

As a top predator on the food chain, sharks and other large predatory fishes are known to accumulate toxins acquired from the fish and other

Over the past year, the internet was awash with stories of wildlife moving into urban areas and reoccupying sites where they had rarely or ever

This past year will go down in history for the pandemic’s potent impact on people, travel and economies. Tourism, one of the most affected economic

The documentary Seaspiracy unfurled onto Netflix in March and has the internet awash with  discussion on the unhappy state of our oceans. The resulting discussion

April is one of our favorite months! Northern Spring is in full swing, which coincides with a drier climate in the tropics. The seas increasingly