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  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_09_27LemonShark789.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_05_16_HI0973.jpg
  • Propeller scars caused by poor boating practices can cut the roots of seagrass meadows causing long-term damage. Image made in the Florida Keys.
    20190603-DJI_0179.jpg
  • Propeller scars caused by poor boating practices can cut the roots of seagrass meadows causing long-term damage. Image made in the Florida Keys.
    20190602-DJI_0085.jpg
  • Propeller scars caused by poor boating practices can cut the roots of seagrass meadows causing long-term damage. Image made in the Florida Keys.
    20190603-DJI_0169.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    20170930-1205.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    20170930-1291.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_05_16_HI1299.jpg
  • Propeller scars caused by poor boating practices can cut the roots of seagrass meadows causing long-term damage. Image made in the Florida Keys.
    20190602-DJI_0047.jpg
  • Propeller scars caused by poor boating practices can cut the roots of seagrass meadows causing long-term damage. Image made in the Florida Keys.
    20190602-DJI_0046.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_05_16_HI0106.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_05_16_HI0952.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_05_16_HI0855.jpg
  • Propeller scars, like these in the Florida Keys, are a result of careless boating in shallow seagrass beds. Propellers can cut past the roots of seagrass and inflict long-term damage to the meadow.
    20190606-DJI_0013.jpg
  • A grey snapper fish (Lutjanus griseus) hunting silversides (Atherinomorus lacunosus) among red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) roots, Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    20200709-500_2269.jpg
  • Schoolmaster snapper (Lutjanus apodus) take shelter among red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) roots. Jardines de la Reina, Gardens of the Queen National Park, Cuba.
    20170214GOTQ0341.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    20170605HI0041.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_05_16_HI0908.jpg
  • Mangrove roots underwater with sunlight pouring in.
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  • A propeller scar runs through a seagrass (Thalassia testudinum) meadow in The Bahamas. The prop scar is caused by a boat's propeller digging up the root structure of the underwater plant.
    20180619-500_5872.jpg
  • Red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) habitat with a juvenile great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) in The Bahamas.
    20200628-500_1773.jpg
  • A split shot of red mangroves (Rhizophora mangle) in Alligator Creek, Cat Island, Bahamas.
    20180716-500_7422.jpg
  • Red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) habitat with shoal of Silversides (Atherinomorus lacunosus), Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    20200706-500_1892.jpg
  • Silversides hide in mangroves for protection in The Bahamas.
    2016_03_23_HI088.jpg
  • Juvenile nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) in a mangrove forest, Bimini, Bahamas.
    2013_mar19_Bimini184.jpg
  • A green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) hides among mangrove trees in The Bahamas.
    20200706-500_1840.jpg
  • A young great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) waits in ambush for small fish in the mangroves. Image made in The Bahamas.
    20200706-500_1853.jpg
  • Red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) habitat with a juvenile great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) in The Bahamas.
    20200628-500_1775.jpg
  • Grey snapper fish (Lutjanus griseus) hunting among red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) trees. Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2012_HI_Aug_21st134.jpg
  • A baby nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum), or pup, swims in a mangrove forest. The little sharks take advantage of the many places to hide in mangroves or under rocks. Image made in Bimini, Bahamas.
    2013_mar19_Bimini207.jpg
  • Schoolmaster snapper (Lutjanus apodus) in red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) and turtlegrass (thalassia testudinum) habitats. Image made on Eleuthera Island, Bahamas.
    20180619-500_6035.jpg
  • Red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) habitat with shoal of Silversides (Atherinomorus lacunosus), Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    20200706-500_1959.jpg
  • Red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) propagules, the "seeds", become fully mature plants before dropping off the parent tree to drift away and establish a new tree. Image made in The Bahamas.
    20200706-500_1881.jpg
  • A young great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) waits in ambush for small fish in the mangroves. Image made in The Bahamas.
    20200706-500_2064.jpg
  • A lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris) pup in a mangrove nursery in The Bahamas.
    20200614-500_1363.jpg
  • Red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) habitat with silversides, Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2012_HI_Aug_21st040.jpg
  • A young great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) waits in ambush for small fish in the mangroves. Image made in The Bahamas.
    20200706-500_2030.jpg
  • Old propeller scar off Eleuthera, Bahamas. If a propeller ruins the root structure of seagrass it can corrode the meadow leading to loss of seabed structure.
    20180619-500_5969.jpg
  • A lined seahorse (Hippocampus erectus) holding onto a red mangrove root in an alkaline pond in The Bahamas.
    20190113-500_1696.jpg
  • Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain. One patch is considered to be the oldest living organism on Earth.
    20190624-500_2181.jpg
  • Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain. One patch is considered to be the oldest living organism on Earth.
    20190625-500_2969.jpg
  • Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain. One patch is considered to be the oldest living organism on Earth.
    20190625-500_2734.jpg
  • Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) is likely the oldest living organism on Earth. A single patch of seagrass found in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain is estimated to be between 80,000 and 200,000 years old.
    20190624-500_2359.jpg
  • A school of cow breams (Sarpa salpa) feeding among seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediteranean Sea in Spain.
    20190624-500_2150.jpg
  • Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain. One patch is considered to be the oldest living organism on Earth.
    20190624-500_2355.jpg
  • Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain. One patch is considered to be the oldest living organism on Earth.
    20190624-500_2161.jpg
  • A school of cow breams (Sarpa salpa) feeding among seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediteranean Sea in Spain.
    20190624-500_2090.jpg
  • Mediterranean rainbow wrasse (Coris julis) taking shelter in neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in Spain.
    20190624-500_2074.jpg
  • Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain. One patch is considered to be the oldest living organism on Earth.
    20190624-500_2100.jpg
  • A lined seahorse (Hippocampus erectus) holding onto a red mangrove shoot in an alkaline pond on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_05_31HI15.jpg
  • A camouflaged lined seahorse (Hippocampus erectus) holding onto a tree branch near the surface in an alkaline pond in The Bahamas.
    20180501-500_8397.jpg
  • A lined seahorse (Hippocampus erectus) holding onto a red mangrove shoot in an alkaline pond on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_05_31HI159.jpg
  • Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain. One patch is considered to be the oldest living organism on Earth.
    20190625-500_2764.jpg
  • Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain. One patch is considered to be the oldest living organism on Earth.
    20190625-500_2677.jpg
  • Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) is likely the oldest living organism on Earth. A single patch of seagrass found in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain is estimated to be between 80,000 and 200,000 years old.
    20190624-500_2553.jpg
  • Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain. One patch is considered to be the oldest living organism on Earth.
    20190624-500_2209.jpg
  • Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain. One patch is considered to be the oldest living organism on Earth.
    20190625-500_2781.jpg
  • A school of cow breams (Sarpa salpa) feeding among seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediteranean Sea in Spain.
    20190625-500_2899.jpg
  • Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain. One patch is considered to be the oldest living organism on Earth.
    20190624-500_2456.jpg
  • Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain. One patch is considered to be the oldest living organism on Earth.
    20190624-500_2349.jpg
  • Mangroves hold sediments and can form barrier islands like these off Parguera, Puerto Rico, one of the few areas that faired well during hurricanes Maria and Irma in 2017.
    Gross_PuertoRico011.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2015_12_10HI025.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_05_16_HI1048.jpg
  • Researchers Ian Bouyoucos and Cam Raguse test whether a lemon shark pup (Negaprion brevirostris) had been previously tagged at the Cape Eleuthera Insitute in The Bahamas. Lemon shark pups spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development.
    2015_09_09_CEI392.jpg
  • Researchers Ian Bouyoucos and Cam Raguse test whether a lemon shark pup (Negaprion brevirostris) had been previously tagged at the Cape Eleuthera Insitute in The Bahamas. Lemon shark pups spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development.
    2015_09_09_CEI308.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2014_10_16HI715.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_09_15Lemons507.jpg
  • Young spiny lobsters hide in seagrass, while adults dig to the roots looking for clams to feed on. Seagrass is vital for this commercially and economically important species.
    20190304-_DSC1213.jpg
  • The mangroves provide protection from large predators, mostly other sharks, as the prop roots are a tangle too tight for larger sharks to swim through. Lemon sharks will return to the same exact creek they were born in to give birth, a process known as natal philopatry. Lemon sharks depend on mangroves for the survival of the first 5-8 years of their lives. Mangroves are disappearing throughout the world and the fate of the lemon shark is left in the balance. We need to get proper protections for the world's mangroves and then enforce them.
    LemonsAndMangroves03.jpg
  • Plastic in the form of fishing nets and bags gets entangled in mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) roots in The Bahamas.
    2016_02_05HI007.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_09_15Lemons507.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_05_16_HI1122.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) are social animals, proven to form friendships. Lemon shark pups spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2014_10_17HI265-2.jpg
  • A lemon shark pup (Negaprion brevirostris) in a research tank at the Cape Eleuthera Institute in The Bahamas is used for a study on the social lives of sharks before being released back into the wild. Lemon shark pups spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2015_11_30HI397.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_09_14LemonShark249.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_09_28LemonShark099.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2016_02_22HI725.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2014_10_17HI526.jpg
  • Lemon shark pups (Negaprion brevirostris) spend the first 5-8 years of their life in mangrove forests. The tangle of roots provides protection from predators like large sharks and is full of potential prey like juvenile fish and crabs. Lemon sharks are the first species of shark proven to practice natal philopatry where the mother will return to the same area she was born in to give birth. Mangroves are being lost at unsustainable rates thanks to coastal development. Image made on Eleuthera, Bahamas.
    2014_10_17HI650.jpg
  • Propeller scars are caused by boats going into water that is too shallow for their propellers. A minor scar can heal quickly, but a deep scar that tears up the roots can erode into major divisions of the habitat.
    Old Prop Scar
  • Propeller scars are caused by boats going into water that is too shallow for their propellers. A minor scar can heal quickly, but a deep scar that tears up the roots can erode into major divisions of the habitat.
    New Prop Scar
  • Propeller scars, like these in the Florida Keys, are a result of careless boating in shallow seagrass beds. Propellers can cut past the roots of seagrass and inflict long-term damage to the meadow.
    Propeller Scars.jpg
  • Though stealthy predators, these babies are often seen accidentally running into tree roots and snapping at floating leaves. It is clear they are young, clumsy and need to learn about the new world around them.
    LemonsAndMangroves15.jpg
  • A lemon shark pup swimming among mangrove roots and mangrove snapper in a tiny creek on Eleuthera Island.
    2014_10_17HI473.jpg
  • Often referred to as the "engineers of the mangroves" crocodiles are the largest predators in this part of the ecosystem and carve out the paths through the mangrove root system.
    AmericanCrocInCuba
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