Sangeeta Mangubhai

Our perspective piece on "Rethinking the 30 by 30 target to ensure the well-being of small-scale fishing communities" We we argue that communities should not shoulder the burden of meeting global conservation commitments.
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Important paper. Deep takeaway: SSF resilience isn’t “bounce back,” it’s redundancy—local buyers + cold storage/processing + digital access + social protection. W/out those buffers, shocks force harmful coping (debt, risky trade, overfishing) & widen inequity—especially for women & informal fishers.

Been contemplating our ability to learn vs. sweeping things under the carpet. Been a struggle to get people to reflect on the pandemic and learn. "COVID-19 highlights the need to improve resilience and equity in managing small-scale fisheries." www.nature.com/articles/s44...

New SPC publication on "Climate change implications for fisheries and aquaculture in the Pacific Islands region". A wonderful resource for the Pacific, and highlighting the importance of integrating climate change into the fisheries and aquaculture sector. www.spc.int/digitallibra...

Indigenous concerns surface as U.S. agency considers seabed mining in Alaskan waters A U.S. federal agency is considering allowing companies to lease more than 45.7 million hectares (113 million acres) of waters off Alaska for seabed mining. Alaska is the latest of several places…

The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is moving toward leasing 45.7 million hectares off Alaska for seabed mining.

The plan has sparked cultural and environmental concerns, as deep-sea mining faces global scrutiny over weak regulations and ecological risks.

In Kenya’s Jomvu Creek, women help restore a vanishing coast through crab farming MOMBASA COUNTY, Kenya — Five minutes’ walk up the hilly road from the mangroves lining the tidal flats of Jomvu Creek, the sharp scent of sea water fills the air. A dozen women fill a small hall with…

Near Mombasa, women in Jomvu Creek are transforming livelihoods through mud crab farming.

A blue economy grant supports crab fattening, ecotourism and mangrove restoration — with nearly 1 million seedlings planted to protect the shoreline and sustain fish nurseries.

Our paper on Impacts of Diverse Stakeholder Participation on Fisheries Management highlight how elements of diversity (e.g. gender, Indigeneity) are being incorporated into fisheries management and are perceived to be leading to improved decision-making processes and management outcomes.

‘Every time I look at one, I smile!’: how axolotls took over the world Our passion for these cute-looking salamanders means they are everywhere – except in the wild, where the species is under increasing threat

Axolotls are the new animal of fashion, up there in the pantheon with the unicorn, the llama, the narwhal and the capybara. But even as the Mexican salamander’s popularity means they are everywhere, the species is under increasing threat in its native habitat. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Photographer's Unique Image of a Flying Fox Carrying its Pup Mid-Flight Flying fox mother carries her pup in a rare shot by Chris Bray on Christmas Island.

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#Vote for the 2025 #Wildlife #Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award (last day to vote: March 18)

Link for voting, more information and more #photos:
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Congratulations to you and your authors Sangeeta. A thought provoking piece of work for the entire industry.

The Ocean Equity Index - Nature The Ocean Equity Index provides a systematic, twelve-criteria framework to assess and improve equity in ocean initiatives, projects and policies, producing structured data that guide evidence-bas...

🌊 The global community has made ambitious commitments to advancing ocean equity – what is missing is a transparent & replicable way to measure equity and track progress 🐠

📢 Our new @nature.com paper, the #OceanEquityIndex, offers a simple yet robust solution: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🥺As proud as we should be on sustainability and fisheries compliance efforts, improving the human and labour rights is long overdue. While we cannot force DWFN to change, we need to lead by example and create the standards for PICs fleets. Vanuatu is the pacific biggest fleet yet the less regulated.

✨ The SNAPP Advancing Ocean Equity Project is hiring!

🦈 Join David Gill & @sangeetamangubhai.bsky.social to co-produce guidance for equitable ocean governance.

🔹 Deadline: 28 February 2026
🔹 Job link: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31550

🌊 Please apply or share widely!

SILENT WATERS: The Hidden Struggle of Vanuatu Fishers YouTube video by Smol Vilij Productions

More stories from the Pacific on violence towards Islanders working on vessels. @franciscoblaha.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2pb...

The red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states.

The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor.

One collision and the whale is dead.

We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍

Elizabeth Erasito, custodian of Fiji’s parks and places, aged 57 The work of conservation in small island states is rarely abstract. It is shaped by land that is limited, institutions that are thinly resourced, and pressures that arrive from far beyond national bor...

For all those that knew her, for all those that missed the chance to get to know this inspiring woman, we honour and farewell Elizabeth Erasito. Thank you @mongabay.com for sharing the legacy and inspiration Elizabeth leaves. www.butlernature.com/2025/12/27/e...

Deep-sea ‘hotels’ reveal 20 new species hiding in Pacific Ocean twilight zone near Guam A transparent goby fish drifted through the darkness, its skeleton visible through paper-thin skin. Nearby, a sea slug wore yellow polka dots like a party dress, while an orange fish with bulging…

Scientists retrieved 13 ARMS units from deep reefs off Guam, collecting 2,000 specimens, including 100 species new to the region and 20+ new to science.

Sensors show warming even in the twilight zone. It’s the start of a 76-ARMS effort to protect deep Pacific reefs.

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Our perspective piece in @pacificconsbio.bsky.social provides 8 strategies for "Increasing Pacific Islander research and authorship in the academic literature". @romiteshkant.bsky.social @mereoni.bsky.social @rufinovarea.bsky.social Free to download: www.publish.csiro.au/PC/PC25011

Deep-sea gas hydrate mounds and chemosynthetic fauna discovered at 3640 m on the Molloy Ridge, Greenland Sea - Nature Communications This study reveals dissociating methane hydrate mounds on the seafloor at more than 3600 m deep in the Greenland Sea. This gas hydrate cold seep supports chemosynthetic fauna similar to Arctic hydroth...

A new paper in Nature Communications describes #chemosynthetic ecosystem around #methane seep on the bottom of the #Arctic #Ocean

Deep-sea gas hydrate mounds and chemosynthetic fauna discovered at 3640 m on the Molloy Ridge, Greenland Sea | Nature Communications share.google/5lEiX7XozSEC...

Explainer: The latest science on ocean acidification In 2025, scientists warned the ‘planetary boundary’ for ocean acidification had been crossed. This is what that means and why it matters

In this year’s #PlanetaryHealthCheck (www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...), the #OceanAcidification boundary has been assessed as breached for the first time. What does this mean? Nice explanatory piece in “Dialogue Earth”, with input from PIK researcher Levke Caesar.

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Bizarre Ecosystem Discovered More Than Two Miles beneath Arctic Ocean Dynamic mounds made of methane at a depth of some 3,640 meters act like “frozen reefs” for a bizarre array of deep-sea creatures, new observations reveal

Dynamic mounds made of methane at a depth of some 3,640 meters act like “frozen reefs” for a bizarre array of deep-sea creatures, new observations reveal

Unprecedented levels of forever chemicals found in dolphins and whales New research has revealed that marine mammals who live far below the ocean's surface are not immune from the burden of toxic forever chemicals, with whales and dolphins showing unprecedented levels of...

How did we get here?

#Marine#Pollution #ForeverChemicals #MarineEcology #MarineMammals

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Extinction rarely departs with drama, it slips out the back door while we’re still debating the guest list. These records are made official on the Red List. "Conservation failures are often recognised only once they can no longer be reversed."
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Elizabeth Erasito, custodian of Fiji’s parks and places, aged 57 The work of conservation in small island states is rarely abstract. It is shaped by land that is limited, institutions that are thinly resourced, and pressures that arrive from far beyond national bor...

For all those that knew her, for all those that missed the chance to get to know this inspiring woman, we honour and farewell Elizabeth Erasito. Thank you @mongabay.com for sharing the legacy and inspiration Elizabeth leaves. www.butlernature.com/2025/12/27/e...

In memory of the Christmas Island shrew It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar. Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, moving through the roots and leaf litter of a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. At night, its voi...

Loss of the Christmas Island shrew. The forest is quieter with its extinction. Always filled with immense sadness when another species slips away as a result of the way we treat nature and the wildlife we share this planet. news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-m...

The Fight Against Femicide: Victories and Setbacks in 2025 MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, December 27 (IPS) - Hours before world leaders gathered in Johannesburg for the 2025 G20 summit in November, hundreds of South African women wearing black lay down in a city park for 15 minutes — one for each woman who loses her life every day to gender-based violence in the country. The striking visual protest was organised by a civil society organisation, Women for Change, which also gathered over a million signatures demanding the government declare gender-based violence (GBV) a national disaster. Hours later, the government acquiesced.

The Fight Against #Femicide: Victories and Setbacks in 2025

A killing with precedent Early on November 16th, gunmen shot and killed Vicente Kaiowá e Guarani, a father and spokesman for the Kaiowá, a people who have spent decades trying to return to the places they call tekoha. His com...

A killing with precedent. www.butlernature.com/2025/11/22/a...

Saalumarada Thimmakka, mother of trees, has died, aged 114 Along a dusty road between Hulikal and Kudur in southern India, banyan trees rise like sentinels. Their thick roots grasp the earth, their canopies stretch wide, casting deep shade over the red soil. ...

Saalumarada Thimmakka, mother of trees. www.butlernature.com/2025/11/15/s...