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Information is key – but lacking for sharks and rays in the Western Indian Ocean (commentary)

Thousands of sharks and rays are likely entangled in plastic polluting Earth’s oceans

What happens to an ecotourism town when the wildlife doesn’t show?

Recreational divers help researchers track movements of rare stingray

Caribbean nations boost protection for extremely rare largetooth sawfish

Mobile app encourages Indian fishers to free entangled whale sharks

Study maps where tunas, sharks and fishing ships meet

World’s fastest shark, and many others, edge toward extinction

Hobby-grade drones can monitor marine animals beneath the surface

Argentina creates two new marine parks to protect penguins, sea lions

PNG to create 7,500 square kilometers of new marine protected areas in Bismarck Sea

Rare nursery for baby manta rays discovered in Gulf of Mexico

Fishing gear poses the greatest danger to young great whites off the West Coast of the U.S.

Longest recorded whale shark migration eclipses 20,000 kilometers

Brazil creates four massive marine protected areas

Study reveals the Pacific Garbage Patch is much heftier than thought — and it’s growing

Microplastic pollution in world’s oceans poses major threat to filter-feeding megafauna

Do catch and release-induced abortions harm shark and ray populations?

Belize imposes offshore oil moratorium to protect reefs

‘SALT’ alliance aims to tackle illegal fishing on a global scale

Trade in silky and thresher sharks now to be strictly regulated

DNA barcoding helps identify endangered species from market specimens of sharks and rays

Singapore is world’s second largest shark-fin trader: TRAFFIC

Over 50% of sharks and rays in the Mediterranean Sea are at risk of extinction

Leonardo DiCaprio launches global campaign to protect sharks and rays

400-year-old Greenland shark might be oldest vertebrate on Earth

Whale sharks inch closer to extinction

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