The Last Reef recently opened at the Imax Victoria cinema in Victoria B.C, and garnered this review in the Times Colonist newspaper. “As far as jaw-dropping imagery goes, The Last Reef is hard to beat as it effectively parallels behaviour in these heavily populated “cities beneath the sea” with bustling urban centres – notably New [...]
Palau makes World Heritage list! Palau’s Rock Islands Southern Lagoon has recently made UNESCO’s World Heritage List. This is especially poignant for The Last Reef, since most of the films underwater coral reef sequences and many of the timelapse sequences were shot in Palau, one of the most biologically diverse areas on the planet, and [...]
Last night The Last Reef won two prestigious awards at the Giant Screen Cinema Associations annual event, held this year in Sacramento, California: Best Music was awarded to Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, whilst Best Sound went to Brian Eimer and Mike Roberts. There was a lot of stiff competition in both categories this year. [...]
A new article in The Guardian quotes a report by 36 scientists from 18 countries, the “Tropical Americas Reef Resilience Workshop”, released by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. It makes for a sobering read: “Caribbean coral reefs – which make up one of the world’s most colourful, vivid and productive ecosystems – are on the [...]
Another New York Times article today, this one more positive, about the work of scientist Mary Hagedorn at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology: she is attempting to create a coral sperm bank, by capturing and preserving coral spawn. Coral spawning can be a predictable event, taking place at certain times of the year, but [...]
Following on from the declaration of a “state of emergency”, Roger Bradbury had this to say in the New York Times Opinion Pages: “IT’S past time to tell the truth about the state of the world’s coral reefs, the nurseries of tropical coastal fish stocks. They have become zombie ecosystems, neither dead nor truly alive [...]