What is a Citizen Scientist? A Citizen Scientist is an individual who voluntarily contributes time, effort, and resources toward scientific research in collaboration with professional scientists or alone. These...
For the past five years, Cendrawasih Bay’s friendly whale shark population has been attracting a lot of attention, primarily because of the near-certainty of having outstanding...
On a recent trip to Bimini, in the Bahamas, we had the chance to meet Jillian and Duncan. They are talented underwater photographers and videographers with...
Latest beach litter figures strengthen case for bottle deposit return schemes around UK Over 8,000 plastic bottles were found on UK beaches during just one weekend,...
Under the mentorship of Cayman’s dive operators, young Caymanians are motivated to protect the environment every day As Earth Day activities are being planned in the...
As part of our continuing efforts to make the Bird’s Head Seascape website as useful, interesting and interactive as possible, we are delighted to announce the...
The Indonesian government has announced it has sunk 34 impounded foreign boats in the country’s latest bid to deter vessels from illegally fishing there. The empty boats...
The VIKING. This is the ship that Captain Sid Chakravarty and his crew on the Sea Shepherd ship STEVE IRWIN hunted and tracked for the last...
Plastic is so ingrained in our lives that it has become almost viral and is pervasive in nearly all parts of our planet. It is almost...
It’s an honor and a great pleasure to announce the recent description of two new BHS endemic damselfishes, named after diving divas Maurine Shimlock and Dr....
The 2015-2016 Taiji dolphin drive hunt is over. This season, the government of Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, authorized Taiji’s dolphin killers to capture or slaughter up to...
Leave it to the Bird’s Head to produce a gubernatorial goby! In a recent paper published with my colleagues Dr. Rick Winterbottom (Royal Ontario Museum) and Dita Cahyani...
