In the living waters of South Africa, a liquid treasure box holds marine species found nowhere else on earth. One of these is the iridescent nudibranch. A reflection of the kaleidoscopic landscape they call home, they possess iridescent colouration. 📷: Jannes Landschoff | Sea Change Project

Now you can wear your heart on your sleeve ... strike that, on your chest! The Save Our Seas Foundation Store offers a range of merchandise with purpose. Your purchase helps spread awareness and supports our mission to protect ocean life for future generations. Shop here: shopsaveourseas.com

Jellyfish have been adrift in our oceans for over 500 million years! Soft-bodied, fragile, and often transparent, they're 95% water and don't have a brain or a spine.  📷: Matthew During 📷: Jannes Landschoff | © Sea Change Project 📷: Christopher Leon 📷: Jasmine Corbett | © Manta Trust

Sleek with their aerodynamic fins and powerful tails, sharks seem honed for top speeds. But which sharks are the fastest? Find out here: saveourseas.com/worldofshark... Edited by Caiti Allison

Reef manta aggregations are seasonal elsewhere, so why do they gather almost daily, around D'Arros Island? It's for zooplankton. Their continued presence can be attributed to a consistent food supply of tiny animals available year-round. 📷: Shane Gross Photography | © SOSF

The SuperSharks have assembled for Shark Awareness Day! Help champion the SuperSharks: pick your protector, from the mighty great white to the extraordinary thresher shark wielding its tail or the intelligent manta ray, and don your very own SuperSharks merch! Shop merch here: shopsaveourseas.com

White sharks are the most iconic of all sharks. They are large and imposing, but surprisingly elusive, in part owing to their ambush predation techniques. They take advantage of low light situations to ambush unsuspecting prey, famously breaching in some locations. 🎥: Tom Campbell

With world-renowned biodiversity and a starring role in influencing Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, a visit to the Galapagos Islands will almost definitely include a sighting of the Galapagos sea lion - the archipelago's most abundant marine mammal. 📷: Christopher Vaughan-Jones

Blacktip reef sharks are mesopredators: they sit somewhere in the middle of reef food webs. Reef sharks, especially resident ones, are predators, prey, competitors, and conduits of nutrients; but we risk losing them faster than we fully understand the jobs they do. 📷: Dillys Pouponeau | © SOSF

Blue-barred parrotfish are always born female, so how did this particular reef fish become male? Fish from this species are protogynous hermaphrodites. This means they first function as females, and some individuals later transform into males. 📷: Shane Gross | © Save Our Seas Foundation

This World of Sharks podcast episode is an extra special one – it’s our 100th! To celebrate this milestone, our host Dr Isla Hodgson looks back across 100+ hours of conversations about sharks with scientists and conservationists from around the world. Listen here: saveourseas.com/worldofshark...

A shimmering orb in azure ocean waters, bait balls are all about safety in numbers. In formation, their lateral line - sense organs on individual fish - enable small schooling fish to move in perfect unison, a natural defence mechanism when under threat. 📷: Jasmine Corbett | © Manta Trust

There is just one week left to apply for our Small Grants! Applications close on July 3rd, 18:00 CET. 📅 Apply here: grants.saveourseas.com 🔗 📷: Jake Wilton

The Western Indian Ocean has 270 known species of sharks, rays and chimaeras - that's roughly 21% of global shark diversity. But nearly half of all these species are threatened with extinction. 📷: Simon Hilbourne

These befreckled cuties are ‘spotless’ at birth. Young Atlantic spotted dolphins only develop their patterning when they pass their first birthday. One can tell a dolphin’s age by the phase of their spots, with fully matured individuals showing spots that have ‘fused’ densely. 🎥: Sebastian Staines

Yes I'm cute - and you can celebrate it, too! A week ago, we celebrated World Sea Turtle Day. It was a moment for us to reflect on last year's major turtle conservation milestone: green sea turtles moved from Endangered to Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. 📷: Henriette Grimmel | © SOSF

Where zooplankton blooms, reef manta rays gracefully swoop in en masse. These mantas feed on these tiny organisms by swimming with their mouths open and their cephalic fins extended, funnelling water over their gills, where their specialised gill rakers filter out the plankton. 🎥: Michael Scholl

Be it their striking vertical stripes resembling the coat of their name-sake, or the predatory grace with which they move, tiger sharks have incredible presence. Yet, their true majesty lies in their brilliant navigation as seasonal ocean migrators 🎥: Sebastian Staines

There are two weeks left to apply for our Small Grants! If you're an early-career researcher, conservationist, and educator with a local project focused on sharks, rays, skates, sawfishes and chimaeras, to apply now. Applications close on July 3rd, 18:00 CET. Apply here: grants.saveourseas.com

In the 99th episode of the #WoS podcast, recorded at Sharks International in Sri Lanka, host Isla is joined by parasitologist Dr Bjoern Schaeffner and shark scientist Dr Jaime Penadés Suay to explore one of the least understood — and most misunderstood — components of marine ecosystems: parasites.

'Shaping marine conservation in Cameroon' Save Our Seas Foundation project leader Aristide Takoukam Kamla founded the African Marine Conservation Organisation (AMCO). 'Shaping marine conservation in Cameroon' is now online: saveourseas.com/shaping-mari...

'Shaping marine conservation in Cameroon' Community can shape conservation. In Cameroon, Save Our Seas Foundation project leader Aristide Takoukam Kamla founded the African Marine Conservation Organisation - AMCO to drive conservation action to benefit marine animals and people alike.

'Shaping marine conservation in Cameroon' Wenzel Pinto's first international journey landed him on the shores of Cameroon, West Africa. 'Shaping marine conservation in Cameroon' is now online: saveourseas.com/shaping-mari... Illustrations by Lizzy Stewart

'The world changes, and we don't remember' The shifting baseline syndrome describes how we gradually lose our memory of what our oceans once were. 'The world changes, and we don't remember' is now online: saveourseas.com/the-world-ch...

'The world changes, and we don't remember' On assignment in Mexico, Ocean Storytelling Photography Grant Winner Acacia Johnson found a story that asks us to honour the past in order to re-imagine the future. 'The world changes, and we don't remember' is now online: saveourseas.com/the-world-ch...

'Nothing comes without its world' Through words and illustrations by Dylan McGarry, readers and viewers alike are invited to ponder 'why conservation storytelling needs a course correction'. 'Nothing comes without its world' is now online: saveourseas.com/nothing-come...

'Intertidal impact' In the intertidal zone where land meets sea, the ebb and flow of the rising and falling tides exposes a natural laboratory; one on which Sarang Naik, Ocean Storytelling Photography Grant Winner, has trained his lens.

In conversation with Noel Kok, co-founder of Nature, Environment & Wildlife Filmmakers (NEWF) and National Geographic Explorer, we learn about flipping the script of Africa(ns) as a perception.

'Accidental shark sanctuary' Fanni Daniella Szakál, Ocean Storytelling Writing Grant Winner, travelled to the Port of Ngqura, an industrial harbour east of Gqeberha, South Africa. This port, some researchers claim, has a higher abundance of fish than anywhere else along this country's coastline.

'Coastal connections' Gabriella Angotti-Jones, Ocean Storytelling Photography Grant Winner, went on assignment to explore shark and ray fisheries - and the scientists keeping tabs on them - in Ghana and Cameroon.