Shark Finning Ban Success in Costa Rica
By Richard Branson We’re in Costa Rica today with very exciting news from the OceanElders‘ efforts to stop shark finning. I saw the film Sharkwater a few years ago and it shook me to the core. Here we...
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Finding the Leatherbacks
This weekend our expedition team, including Dr. Sylvia Earle, Dr. Erick Ross, Dr. George Schillinger and Kip Evans visited the turtles at the Leatherback Trust hatchery in Costa Rica. The hatchery...
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Central American Dome – Playa Grande, Costa Rica Expedition
In January 2014, MarViva and Mission Blue launched a film expedition with Dr. Sylvia Earle to highlight our Central American Dome Hope Spot. Partners supporting the expedition were LightHawk, The Baum...
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Protect Costa Rica’s Hammerhead Sharks from Poachers
By Shari Sant Plummer with contributions by Courtney Mattison (Originally published on National Geographic Ocean Views) Three hundred forty two miles west of mainland Costa Rica lies an oceanic island...
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Sharks and Costa Rica
By Dr. Erick Ross Salazar of the MarViva Foundation (a Mission Blue partner) Sharks are an essential part of the oceans. Their presence is an indicator of the good health of an ecosystem; their absence...
View ArticleJoin Sylvia Earle 1,000 ft deep on World Oceans Day
What’s it like to be with Sylvia Earle at the bottom of the sea? Find out in Beyond Blue, a new short film created by Kip Evans, Mission Blue’s director of expeditions and photography. National...
View ArticleInto the Deep Blue: Costa Rica Thermal Dome Expedition Launches
In three days, Mission Blue is heading out to the Costa Rica Thermal Dome Hope Spot with our strategic partners at MarViva! They are a fantastic regional, non-governmental organization focusing on the...
View ArticleCosta Rica Thermal Dome Expedition: Scientific Research on the High Seas
Mission Blue just returned from an adventurous outing to the Costa Rican Thermal Dome, a Mission Blue Hope Spot, where we documented scientific research in the service of conservation. The Mission Blue...
View ArticleCocos Island Expedition: A Lesson in Enforcement
You don’t need to be a marine biologist to understand why Cocos Island is well worth protecting. While the schools of hammerhead sharks steal the show, the truth is that there are nearly 1,400 marine...
View ArticleShark Finning Primer With A Lifelong Activist-Conservationist
On our recent expedition to Cocos Island, a global hotbed of shark activity, we sat down with Randall Arauz, a lifelong marine conservationist and recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2010...
View ArticleMission Blue Works to Highlight Shark Conservation
Over the last few years, Mission Blue has been active in different parts of the world, specifically in the Gulf of California Hope Spot and the Eastern Pacific Seascape Hope Spot working with local...
View ArticleHope Spot Declared at Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica in Support of Nursery for...
There aren’t many creatures on Earth that offer a remarkable resemblance to the mythical beings we imagined from our childhood storybooks. The endangered scalloped hammerhead shark, with its famous...
View ArticleSharks and Costa Rica
By Dr. Erick Ross Salazar of the MarViva Foundation (a Mission Blue partner) Sharks are an essential part of the oceans. Their presence is an indicator of the good health of an ecosystem; their absence...
View ArticleJoin Sylvia Earle 1,000 ft deep on World Oceans Day
What’s it like to be with Sylvia Earle at the bottom of the sea? Find out in Beyond Blue, a new short film created by Kip Evans, Mission Blue’s director of expeditions and photography. National...
View ArticleMission Blue Works to Highlight Shark Conservation
Over the last few years, Mission Blue has been active in different parts of the world, specifically in the Gulf of California Hope Spot and the Eastern Pacific Seascape Hope Spot working with local...
View ArticleHope Spot Declared at Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica in Support of Nursery for...
There aren’t many creatures on Earth that offer a remarkable resemblance to the mythical beings we imagined from our childhood storybooks. The endangered scalloped hammerhead shark, with its famous...
View ArticleCocos Island Hope Spot Champion Randall Arauz Pushes for Improved Marine...
Header photo by Cristian Dimitrius Traducción al español al final. COCOS ISLAND, COSTA RICA (May 27th, 2021) Costa Rica has long been recognized around the world for its conservation efforts to protect...
View ArticleDr. Sylvia Earle Celebrates Expanded Marine Protected Area in the Galápagos...
By Avrah Sellar, Mission Blue Today, January 14th, 2022, the President of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, signed an official decree enhancing the marine protected area (MPA) around the Galápagos Archipelago...
View ArticleNew Hope Spot Champions for the Costa Rica Thermal Dome Emphasize Need for...
Featured image: Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) (c) Fundación MarViva Costa Rica, Tropical Pacific Ocean The Costa Rica Thermal Dome (CRTD) is considered a deeply important place in the...
View ArticleEverything Sharks! A Virtual Event with Eastern Tropical Pacific Shark Experts
August 25th, 2023 at 11:00am PDT (GMT – 7:00) Everything Sharks! A Virtual Event with Eastern Tropical Pacific Shark Experts, Hosted by Mission Blue and MigraMar Our Speakers: Moderator – Max...
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