Sentences with phrase «global shark conservation»

Praising the move, Matt Rand, director of Global Shark Conservation for the Pew Environment Group said:

A new analysis by the Pew Environment Group, Navigating Global Shark Conservation Measures: Current Measures and Gaps, compiles existing management measures for sharks, highlights their inadequacies, and makes recommendations for improvements.

Since then we have gone on to initiate strong global shark conservation programs like The Shark - Free Marinas Initiative in tandem with our Tiger operations sites in the Bahamas and Bull Shark diving site at the Shark Reef Marine Reserve in Fiji.

This 2 - day Project AWARE diver specialty course, includes a workshop discussing current topics in global shark conservation and a dive at Shark Point and Manta Point.

This new analysis has been welcomed by other global shark conservation experts, including Sonja Fordham, President of Shark Advocates International.

Not exact matches

A new analysis of worldwide customs and trade data published in the journal Biological Conservation confirms that shark - fin trade has dropped by approximately 25 percent over the last decade «Although we can't say that we fully understand the scale or the cause of the shark fin trade decline in China, it seems safe to conclude that demand for fins is waning, and that sounds like good news for sharks,» says global shark fin trade expert Shelley Clarke, a co-author on this study.

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«We have been confident that data from Global FinPrint will catalyze conservation action to protect threatened shark and rays on coral reefs around the world.»

FIU scientists have become increasingly concerned about the vulnerable populations of sharks and rays around the world and especially in Belize, where Global FinPrint lead scientist and FIU professor Demian Chapman has worked for nearly two decades on shark conservation.

«The establishment of new shark and ray sanctuaries such as this is exactly the reason we partnered with FIU to roll out the Global FinPrint surveys,» said James Deutsch, director of Biodiversity Conservation for Paul Allen.

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Justin currently serves on the board of Amazon Frontlines, The Solutions Project, Oceans 5, Shark Conservation Fund, and Global Fishing Watch.

«With the global trade in shark fins pushing sharks toward extinction, it will take strong actions such as this to prevent us from making irreversible changes to our ocean ecosystems,» said Whit Sheard, senior advisor for Oceana, a maritime conservation organization.

It not only made him a celebrity in the marine and conservation community but inspired global efforts to ban shark - finning.

Pretoma, a small conservation group with a budget of $ 300,000 annually, has worked tirelessly in the past decade to draw attention to the highly lucrative global shark fin trade.