If any fish is emblematic of this life cycle—kindergarten in the mangroves, graduate school on the reef—it is the rainbow parrotfish. The scientific name for this species is perfect ...

Gillnets entangle the fish, and fishermen sometimes kill sawfish simply ... Although the smalltooth sawfish gained endangered species protection in 2003, coastal development continued unabated in ...

This enabled the researchers to come up with conservation strategies tailored to each species. For example, the researchers found that the mangrove horseshoe crab – found in places like the ...

JCU scientists have discovered that juvenile mangrove whiprays in Orpheus ... like most cold-blooded animals, such as other ...

On our first dive we descended into a large stand of elkhorn coral, a critically endangered species ... large fish and sharks than on our first visit. One morning we entered the mangroves and ...

Experts say mangroves are crucial to biodiversity health with three quarters of all tropical fish species born within mangrove forests. The new sanctuary selected for the Forest is a place of ...