Across nine regions, IUCN located 816 areas where at least one threatened species of sharks and rays hosts key activities.

WASHINGTON — The Center for Biological Diversity reached a legal agreement with NOAA Fisheries today requiring the agency to decide by Aug. 12 whether the smalltail shark warrants protection under the ...

Shark and ray populations are struggling across the world due to overfishing and other threats. A new report delineates 816 areas of the ocean that should be protected to help them recover. The report ...

If added to the Endangered Species List, the shark would be the first granted protections under the current Trump ...

On a March morning in the suburbs of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala state’s capital in southern India, a group of fishers were ...

In late 2025, governments took sweeping action for sharks and rays. At a global conference on wildlife trade in Uzbekistan ...

Sharks may elicit less sympathy than elephants or rhinos, but experts say the feared predators are under increasing pressure from unmanaged commercial fishing and desperately in need of further ...

Sharks have prowled Earth's waters for over 400 million years, but a growing appetite for their fins has driven several shark species to the brink of extinction ...

The illegal shark trade is a transnational challenge, and so is the solution.