Science mission finds glimmer of hope for marine biodiversity in ocean depths off Comoros

As world leaders meet at the COP30 summit in Brazil, the urgent need to hit a global target of protecting 30 percent of the world’s ocean by 2030 has been brought into stark focus by an international science mission which has just returned with new evidence from the depths of the Indian Ocean.

Sharks – the ocean’s apex predators – observed at depths from 300 metres and 900 metres down in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros – a…