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Pay-to-release program reduces shark deaths, but backfires in some cases

Basten Gokkon 5 Jun 2025

Community-based conservation cuts thresher shark fishing by 91% in Indonesia: Study

Basten Gokkon 28 Mar 2025
A Caribbean reef shark.

Caribbean reef sharks rebound in Belize with shark fishers’ help

Marco Lopez 13 Mar 2025
Banner image of Cyclone Alfred as it nears the Australian coast, by NASA via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Flash floods, blackouts and a ‘sharknado’ as Cyclone Alfred lashes Australia

Kristine Sabillo 11 Mar 2025
A new species of critically endangered guitar shark was identified off the coast of Tanzania. Image courtesy of The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census/Sergey Bogorodsky.

Scientists identify more than 800 new species in global Ocean Census

Shanna Hanbury 11 Mar 2025
A bottlenose wedgefish (Rhynchobatus australiae).

New evidence spells massive trouble for world’s sharks, rays and chimaeras

Spoorthy Raman 2 Jan 2025

South Australia bans fishing of many sharks and rays in its waters

Mongabay.com 2 Jan 2025

Scientists discover new hammerhead shark species — and it’s already at risk

Shanna Hanbury 18 Oct 2024
Shark and ray remains after their fins have been removed at Brondong Harbor, East Java.

Clock ticks on Indonesia shark skinners as predator population plunges

Asad Asnawi 25 Sep 2024

A Mexican marine park shelters giant manta rays: Interview with Madalena Pereira Cabral

Astrid Arellano 4 Sep 2024

New species of skate is named, 35 years since its discovery off Madagascar

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Aug 2024

Six new natural sites added to UNESCO World Heritage List

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Aug 2024
A basking shark (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens). Image courtesy of Greg Skomal/NOAA Fisheries Service.

Shark ‘Fitbit’ captures rare footage of collision with boat

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Aug 2024

Sharks have cocaine in their bodies

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Jul 2024
A shark in mangrove shallows. Image by Anita Kainrath/Ocean Image Bank.

Shark fin consumption wanes in Thailand, yet demand persists, report shows

Carolyn Cowan 29 Jul 2024

Foreign ship caught illegally fishing endangered sharks off Madagascar

Bobby Bascomb 26 Jul 2024
A shark in French Polynesia.

18 years on, how are sharks faring in French Polynesia’s shark sanctuary?

Amélie David 24 May 2024

CITES halts Ecuador’s shark trade; trafficking persists amid lack of transparency

Carlos Chunga 6 May 2024
Shoebill

Study identifies species with a long history but short future amid threats

Carolyn Cowan 28 Mar 2024
A whale shark with remoras.

Summit on migratory species sides with science, throws shade on deep-sea mining

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Feb 2024
Blacktip sharks.

In East Java, social media push against Indonesia shark & ray trade lacks bite

Asad Asnawi 8 Feb 2024
Hammerhead shark

DNA probe uncovers threatened shark species in Thailand’s markets

Carolyn Cowan 30 Jan 2024
A coral reef and its residents in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Image ©Greg Asner/divephoto.org.

2023’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Ana Spalding, David Obura, Diva Amon, Minna Epps, Rhett Bennett, U. Rashid Sumaila 16 Jan 2024
A school of hammerhead sharks.

‘Shark dust’ helps researchers ID threatened species in Indonesia fish trade

Cassie Freund 19 Dec 2023
A blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus).

The ex-shark fishermen teaching schoolkids how to protect the environment

Claire Turrell 15 Dec 2023
An African wedgefish (Rhynchobatus luebberti) landed by artisanal fishermen and sold in Songolo (Critically Endangered, IUCN Red List). Credit: Godefroy De Bruyne

Congo’s waters are hotspot for endangered sharks & rays, reveals data from artisanal fishers

Molly Herring 28 Nov 2023

In Indonesia, ‘opportunistic’ whale shark fishery shows gap in species protection

Basten Gokkon 13 Sep 2023

Indonesian illegal shark and ray exports remain rampant amid poor monitoring

Asad Asnawi 8 Aug 2023
Blacktip reef shark, French Polynesia. Image by Hannes Klostermann / Ocean Image Bank

Sharks deserve our appreciation and protection (commentary)

Assaf Levy 13 Jul 2023
A washed-up egg case of a ray.

Tangled in marine debris, skate egg cases dry up and die on Peruvian beaches

Michelle Carrere 30 Jun 2023
A blacktip reef shark swims among smaller fish

Several reef sharks at greater threat of extinction than thought, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Jun 2023
A green sea turtle.

A Southeast Asian marine biodiversity hotspot is also a wildlife trafficking hotbed

Keith Anthony Fabro 7 Jun 2023

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