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A White-Tip Reef Shark, Triaenodon obesus, swimming over the reef, surrounded by Big-Eye Trevally, Caranx sexfasciatus, Sipadan Island, Sabah, Malaysia.
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Oceanic Whitetip Sharks are Critically Endangered

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Our Mission:

Saving Endangered Sharks from Overfishing and the Shark Fin Trade, and Protecting Critical Marine Habitat.

1/3 of all sharks and rays are threatened with extinction, and with their loss the important ocean ecosystems humans rely on for our own health are at risk.

Why Save Sharks?

Sharks keep the oceans healthy. We rely on the oceans for over half our oxygen, and the oceans are a major carbon sink. Saving sharks can keep us breathing, balance ecosystems and mitigate the impacts caused by climate change.

Save a Shark, Protect the Ocean

Shark Stewards is an international non-profit dedicated to saving sharks and ocean habitat. For over 18 years, our work has saved millions of sharks by introducing shark fin trade bans, regulating fisheries and supporting marine protected areas.

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We are shark activists and rely on your passion and talent to advocate, educate and take action.

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Help Protect Critically Endangered Sharks

Support sharks and their habitat directly by connecting to sharks we observe, and supports marine protected areas. Get a Shark Buddy Certificate! Your $100 donation goes to data collection & monitoring supporting increased protection for mobula rays, sharks and their habitat.

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Keep Sharks Swimming

Sharks are being overfished globally, killed as bycatch or for their fins to make shark fin soup. The shark fin trade contributes to plummeting shark populations across the world. But the problem is deeper than this.

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TAKE ACTION TO SAVE SHARKS FROM EXTINCTION

Save the ESA and Save Endangered Sharks

For fifty years, the ESA has been the “emergency room” for America’s wildlife. It brought the California Gray Whale back from the brink of extinction. It allowed Southern Sea Otters to repopulate our kelp forests. It is the lifeline for endangered Oceanic Whitetip, Scalloped Hammerhead and Soupfin sharks. The ESA works because it was fast, strict, and based…

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Letter to NOAA Against Opening Fishing in the Papahānaumokuākea

I am writing to express our strenuous opposition to the recent final action taken by the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council (WPRFMC) to restore commercial fishing within the Pacific Remote Islands, Rose Atoll, Marianas Trench, and Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monuments. This recommendation to allow longline and purse seine fishing within 50–200 nm of…

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