A VIRAL OPPORTUNITY
A VIRAL OPPORTUNITY What kind of world do we want on the other side of this crisis? In February 2020, Peter Neill, founder and director of the World Ocean Observatory a piece forWorld Ocean [...]
Indonesia’s Aqua Pledges to Recover, Recycle More Plastic Than It Uses
Aqua, Indonesia’s oldest and largest bottled water brand, has pledged to recover and recycle more plastics from the environment by 2025. Within the next seven years, the local unit of [...]
Plastic bags jam stomach of dead pilot whale in Thailand
Read the details: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-whale/plastic-bags-clog-stomach-of-dead-whale-in-thailand-idUSKCN1IZ08W
sperm whale washed ashore dead
Forbes.com reports on a “sperm whale that was found washed ashore dead after swallowing 64 pounds of plastic debris. The male sperm whale was found on the Murcian coast in southern Spain in [...]
APEX Environmental at ADEX2018
APEX Environmental presents at ADEX2018, the largest dive festival in Asia, on Banda Blue whales and role of marine tourism to protect oceanic habitats in the Coral Triangle www.adex.asia At [...]
Third important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMA) Workshop, Held in Borneo, Puts 46 New Candidate IMMAS On The Map
Apex Environmental’s director participated in IMMA (as an expert member of the IUCN Marine Mammal Protected Area Task Force – MMPATF). Third Important Marine Mammal Areas [...]
New Hotspots For Oceanic Cetaceans Found In Maluku
New Hotspots For Oceanic Cetaceans Found In Maluku (The Spice Islands), Indonesia News release by Benjamin Kahn, Yoga Putra and Marthen Welly. A recent Rapid Ecological Assessment (REA) for [...]
Populair press
A Very Worrying Discovery: Scientists Find Plastics in the Stomachs of Deep Sea Creatures Animals from the deepest places on Earth have been found with plastic in their stomachs, confirming fears [...]
Savu Sea – October 2017
While working in Alor and Timor (Savu Sea) in October 2017 on our blue whales and oceanic cetacean whale watch expeditions, APEX was fortunate to team up with Kay Burn Lim, an expert film-maker [...]
Marine Debris
In light of U.S. and Indonesian interest and efforts to tackle marine debris, U.S. Embassy Jakarta will host a roundtable discussion with Dr. Jenna Jambeck, Associate Professor of Engineering at [...]
