La Réunion - a paradise in the Indian Ocean full of beautiful beaches, coral reefs and impressive volcanic landscapes. Unfortunately, also "home" to one of the most intense conflicts between humans and sharks - mostly bull sharks. In the early 2000´s Réunion was making its way up the ladder becoming a major tourist destinations, especially among...
In spring 2021 I joined the SOCPacific-project as an intern working mostly on a literature review on the socio-ecological importance of reef passages (especially for remote island states in the south-west pacific). What I found confirmed my intuition as a marine biologist but most of all revealed a large gap in our understanding and recognition of...
Many actually don't know, but marine sponges have been used by humans for different reasons for centuries already. During the ancient Greek and Roman empire, sponges have been collected by divers and fishers and used as bath utensils (so called "bath sponges"), but also in multiple other ways (for example to polster the helmets of soldiers). Later...