Vast underwater forests have gone missing from the Sydney coastline. Operation Crayweed aims to reforest 70km of Sydney coastline – and you can help.
Over fishing is a global issue, and it’s all too easy to put it in the ‘too hard’ basket, turn a blind eye, and hope by some miracle we don’t actually run out of fish. Sustainable seafood: how better seafood labelling, informed decisions and personal action can make a difference.
Biodiversity#13: Octopus. A cephalopod mollusc of the order Octopoda, literally meaning ‘eight-foot’. Their bodies have no internal or external hard parts and they have been known to squeeze through very small apertures – mainly in order to escape!
Plastic pollution in our oceans is a man-made catastrophe that feels too big for us to solve. One new Australian project, The Seabin, aims to do that & more.
Diveplanit blogger Harriet Spark writes about plastic pollution and exactly why single use plastic straws suck.
Scuba For Change has developed an innovative social enterprise that aims to resolve the wrongful outflow of tourism dollars in developing countries.
Louise Southerden attended last night’s ‘Shark Meeting’ at Lennox Head and was disappointed to find an overwhelming support for shark culling.
Today is World Oceans Day and this year, the theme is Healthy Oceans, Healthy Planet, with a focus on stopping plastic pollution. Here are 7 ways to help.
The octopus is the smartest invertebrate on the planet with better capabilities than a Terminator 2 model T-1000 – and we like to eat them.
Spearfishing versus underwater photography? Keen diver, snorkeler and sometime Diveplanit guest blogger Rod Eime, muses on his transformation from wide-eyed snorkeler and spear fisherman to would-be protector of all marine life (if he only could).
