From TIES EcotourismTrend YouTube subscriptions: Our favorite beach & ocean eco-videos!

Seacology: Seacology’s Indonesia EcoReef project

Manado Tua Island is a towering extinct volcano fringed with picturesque reef drop-offs and capped with a rainforest at its summit. The island’s 3,200 inhabitants form a very tightly-knit community of farmers and fishermen who cling tenaciously to their Sangir cultural traditions. Large sections of Manado Tua’s coral reef have been reduced to rubble fields due to blast fishing activities that took place over a decade ago. With Seacology’s assistance, Manado Tua villagers have installed EcoReef modules, snowflake-shaped ceramic modules that are designed to mimic branching corals, providing shelter to fish and a surface for larval corals to build a new reef… Watch

>> Seacology’s YouTube Channel

The Coral Reef Alliance: CORAL’s program work in Belize

Executive Director Brian Huse and Conservation Programs Director Rick MacPherson discuss CORAL’s project work worldwide, with a focus on our project site on the island of Ambergris Caye, Belize. Includes interviews with CORAL’s partners on the ground including Billy Leslie, President of the San Pedro Tour Guide Association; Melanie McField, coordinator of the Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative; Sarah Farley, owner of Reef Gliders dive shop in Roatan, Honduras; and Liza Agudelo, coordinator of the ICRAN MAR project. Watch

>>The Coral Reef Alliance’s YouTube Channel

NatGeoOceans: Sounds of the Blue Whale – California

The haunting calls of blue whales can travel across thousands of miles of ocean, and Wild Chronicles is on a mission to find out why these solitary giants are so talkative. For the first time ever, National Geographic’s Crittercam® records both video and underwater sound of blue whales calling. The results reveal that these whales may not be so solitary after all — the calls could be about companionship. Watch

>>NatGeoOceans YouTube Channel

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