Examples of illegal wildlife trafficking in the Indian Ocean In 2019, Eddy Maminirina was arrested in Madagascar for his connection to illegal rosewood trade. It is alleged that 100 million Malagasy ...

Yi-Kai Tea recently returned from a 35-day expedition to explore the deep seas surrounding a new marine park in the Indian Ocean. They gathered thousands of specimens.

A year-long study finds the animals have returned in the part of the Indian Ocean where they were previously hunted in the 1960s, now that it has become a safer environment for them.

Nature inFocus festival 2023: Indian Ocean performance, wildlife film screenings and more Nature inFocus festival returns after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic ...

In 1997, almost 60 years after the West Indian Ocean coelacanth's rediscovery, scientists found another coelacanth species in Indonesia. Known locally as 'raja laut' ('king of the sea'), it was ...

An Aldabra giant tortoise stands tall. Males can weigh more than 500 pounds. Rich Baxter. Life on Aldabra atoll, on the western fringe of the Indian Ocean, moves at the pace of its oldest inhabitants.

A handful of Four Seasons properties across Africa and the Indian Ocean are now offering guests a chance to participate in conservation initiatives meant protect the planet and its wildlife. The ...

A venomous spotfin scorpionfish has been found off Western Australia, marking the species’ first appearance in this region of the Indian Ocean. Learn more here.

There are hundreds of urchin species, and they’re found in every ocean on Earth, from the intertidal zone to more than four miles below the surface. In 2018, Anders Hallan, a research associate at the ...