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.
Join Our Team and Save Sharks!
We are shark activists and rely on your passion and talent to advocate, educate and take action.
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.
Shark Buddies
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.
TAKE ACTION TO SAVE SHARKS FROM EXTINCTION
Tell BOEM NO to Offshore Drilling
The Trump administration’s Department of the Interior is proposing a new 5-Year Offshore Drilling Plan that includes California, the Gulf of Mexico, the previously protected waters off of Florida, and Alaska, including the Alaskan wilderness, where drilling has never been attempted before because of the dangerous risk to sensitive wildlife. Oil spills caused by…
Good News for Shark Protection at CITES Oceanic Whitetip
The Oceanic Whitetip Shark (Carcharhinus longimanus} has been officially uplisted to CITES Appendix I at the 20th Conference of the Parties (CoP20) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.The good news doesn’t stop there. CITES CoP20 saw an unprecedented commitment to marine conservation, with every shark and ray proposal tabled receiving adoption. This comprehensive suite of protections covers…
Defend the ESA: Submitting Comments
Making your voice heard is easy and takes less than 5 minutes. The most effective way to protect the Endangered Species Act is to submit your comment directly to the official federal record. Draft language to USFWS and Department of the Interior Doug Burgum.
