Since 2000, the National Lobster Hatchery in Padstow, Cornwall, has championed the European lobster by crafting creative ways to collaborate with locals to implement conservation efforts.
The activist and conservation champion plans to use the award money for critical tools to combat illegal fishing in the protected waters around Malpelo, Colombia.
Divers aboard the Cat Pplau liveaboard become citizen scientists, helping the crew replant urchins to fight algal spread and repair the reefs of Exuma.
As COVID-19 movement restrictions quiet oceanic noise pollution, scientists study the falling noise levels to better understand effects of human-generated sounds on marine life.