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New Ocean Map Pinpoints 800+ High-Priority Areas Crucial for Shark and Rays Protection
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 ...
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New limits on global trade of sharks won’t be enough to save them from overfishing – new research
In late 2025, governments took sweeping action for sharks and rays. At a global conference on wildlife trade in Uzbekistan ...
A new study published in Ecology and Evolution has evaluated the extent to which recently identified Important Shark and Ray Areas (ISRAs) in the Western Indian Ocean overlap with existing marine ...
On a March morning in the suburbs of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala state’s capital in southern India, a group of fishers were ...
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