The UK will ban the import and export of detached shark fins and products containing them. The UK will go further than any other country to...
A recent report criticises the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) for failing in its stated ‘zero tolerance’ approach to shark finning and calls for urgent reform. Shark...
Cuba & Norway Help US & EU Win Stronger Finning Ban Despite Japan’s Objection Greenland Sharks Get Spotlight While Skates Remain At-Risk In a rare vote,...
Sharks have been dealt a poor hand. They are demonised by the media and film industry because that’s what sells papers and movies. It doesn’t help...
In a ceremony in Germany this past weekend, the conservation group Sharkproject International awarded Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solís the “Shark Enemy of the Year Award.”...
An effort by the European Union and the United States to better prevent shark “finning” (slicing off a shark’s fins and discarding the body at sea)...
Sharks are in big trouble. 100 million a year are being killed by humans, largely for shark fin soup. But a sea change may be coming...
UK-based Bite-Back, an energetic, innovative and pioneering shark and marine conservation charity with a clear focus and a ‘let’s get things done’ attitude, has discovered that...
U.S. based non-profit Shark Angels is launching its Shark Week auction on Thursday (2nd July) via global charity auction site Charitybuzz, one of the world’s leading auction platforms. Items are up for...
Marine conservationists have renewed calls for an outright ban on shark fins in Australia. Earlier this month a Queensland recreational fisherman was fined $7,750 after being caught...