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Shark-fishing gear banned across much of Pacific in conservation ‘win’

New protections for sharks, songbirds, frogs and more at CITES trade summit

No requiem for sharks just yet as nations push to protect species from trade

Greenland shark, world’s longest-living vertebrate, gets long-awaited protection

Stingrays can ‘talk’ when they get riled up, new study suggests

Where do the guitarfish go? Scientists and fishers team up to find out

Study finds major brands selling cat food that contain protected sharks

Belize shows how fishers and researchers can collaborate to protect sharks

Ecuador to announce creation of Hermandad Marine Reserve off Galapagos (commentary)

Advocates welcome halt to shortfin mako shark fishing, call for longer ban

Study shines a light on Indonesia’s murky shark fishery and trade

Beached whale shark in Indonesia reportedly cut up by locals to eat

Overfishing threatens to wipe out bowmouth guitarfish in Indonesia, study says

New research hopes to shine a light on wedgefish, the ‘pangolin of the ocean’

For manta rays, parasitic hitchhikers can be a pain in the rear, study finds

In Gabon, a new partnership protects sharks and rays

Indonesian researchers study how to help rays released as bycatch survive

Shark catastrophe points to failure to enact global biodiversity agreements

Sharks on a knife’s edge as Maldives mulls lifting 10-year fishing ban

Scientists discover three glow-in-the-dark sharks

Human impacts leave reefs short on sharks and long on moray eels

Efforts to tackle shark fin trade need to focus closer to shore, study says

Landed by the thousands: Overfished Congo waters put endangered sharks at risk

Sharks nearby? A bottle of seawater can hold the answer, study says

Sharks are ‘functionally extinct’ in many global reef systems, study finds

Shark fin stories by major media ‘misleading’: Q&A with David Shiffman

Mercury with that? Shark fins served with illegal doses of heavy metals

Bid to get ‘aquatic wild meat’ off the menu and under protection

Recreational fishers are increasingly targeting sharks and rays, and researchers are concerned

In Indonesian waters, filter feeders can ingest dozens to hundreds of microplastic particles every hour

Manta rays are social creatures who are choosy about their friends

With record support, rhino rays and world’s fastest sharks get new trade protections

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