Solid waste, and in particular plastics, are choking the very life out of the oceans. The world currently produces in excess of 400 million tonnes of plastics, and at least 14 million tons of this plastic ends up in the oceans every year. Plastic actually makes up 80% of all marine debris found from surface…
The Marine Research Foundation (MRF) was contracted by DHI Water & Environment (M) Sdn. Bhd. (DHI) to update the desktop literature review of marine biology and ecology in the vicinity of the proposed development of the Kuala Linggi International Port off the Sg. Linggi River Mouth, District of Alor Gajah, Melaka . In addition…
The Arafura and Timor Seas (ATS) are part of the North Australian Shelf large marine ecosystem, a tropical marine area located between the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The region extends from the Timor Sea to the Torres Strait and includes the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria. Bordering the Coral Triangle, epicenter of the…
This map is updated regularly with known incidences of sharks and rays bycatch. Once we download the images from our cameras and process them, we upload incidences of bycatch onto the map. Click the map to know more about all those bycatch events! Keep in mind that we do not get to every camera every…
MRF has expanded its portfolio to also investigate and mitigate the bycatch of endangered sharks and rays in Sabah and Sarawak. This builds on our extensive work with sea turtles and dugongs in Malaysia and throughout the Indo Pacific region. MRF is using electronic monitoring cameras to determine precisely where and when sharks and rays…
