Mundus maris at Boot 2024 – Great success!
Beating earlier records, the 'love your ocean' platform to promote the seven principles of the UN Ocean Decade was present with more than 60 partners [...]
Science and how to use it in a changing world
On 27 October, fisheries biologist Cornelia E. Nauen visited Leiden University (LU) to give the 7th Environmental Humanities LU talk about her work with Mundus [...]
Belgian Ocean Decade Committee reviews its programme
Maria del Carmen Patricia Morales represents Mundus maris asbl in the Belgian Ocean Decade Committee. The Committee which provides scientific guidance met for its last session of [...]
Pampa Azul, Argentina looking to the sea
Argentina has one of the largest continental shelves on the planet an important marine food supplier and carbon dioxide sink through abundant primary productivity. A [...]
Towards a global network of MPAs for ocean governance
Marine protected areas (MPAs) rightly attract more attention as international biodiversity agreements see them as major instruments to stop mass species extinctions and recover ocean [...]
Webinar: Nigeria’s Fisheries challenges and opportunities
The new President of Nigeria has created a Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy as one of the innovations to social and economic development of [...]
Mundus maris supports Climate marches, 15 and 17 September 2023
This was a great day for climate protection. On 15 September, 250,000 people turned out in 250 cities and towns in Germany alone demanding Climate [...]
Presenting the FishBase app at the Symposium in Tervuren
The FishBase Team of the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, headed by Prof. Jos Snoeks, hosted the annual FishBase-SeaLifeBase Symposium for the [...]
Join the Global Climate Strike, 15 September 2023
Fridays for Future and a very large number of organisations, including Mundus maris, invite you to join the world-wide marches to wean our economies from fossil [...]
The appropriation by modern humans of the Earth and the Oceans
Excellent opportunity to join a lecture of acclaimed author and long-time friend, Daniel Pauly, at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, Netherlands, on 2 September 2023. [...]