Sentences with phrase «endangered hammerhead»
«Endangered hammerhead shark found migrating into unprotected waters.»
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And just this March, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) voted to ban undocumented sales of several hammerhead species, threatening to sanction countries that don't comply.
The United States has officially proposed to list six threatened shark species — oceanic whitetip, dusky, sandbar and great, scalloped and smooth hammerheads — under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
The Great Hammerhead has been listed on the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) as endangered since 2007.
This time she's focussed on endangered species so a polar bear, a rhino and shoal of hammerhead sharks may be found in her latest show.
Hammerhead meat has a very low value but the sharks are among the most endangered species because their fins are highly prized for the Asian delicacy shark - fin soup.
Last year, IUCN put the great hammerhead, the largest of the nine species of hammerhead, on the Red List as «endangered.»
Scalloped hammerhead sharks are on the globally Endangered species list, and are often targeted by fishermen for their fins, which attract high prices primarily for the Chinese market.
Arlington, VA — A massive new marine protected area around Cocos Island is a beacon of hope for ocean health and human well - being in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, and will offer endangered marine species such as hammerhead sharks and leatherback turtles, as well as fish stocks that are important to local communities, the chance to recover from increasing pressures, Conservation International (CI) said today in reaction to a decree by the Costa Rican government.
Critically endangered populations of hammerhead and oceanic white tip sharks have plummeted by 70 % and 99 % in the North Atlantic respectively according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
And great whites and hammerheads are near the top of the ocean's endangered list.