Our Shark Week featured species is not Jaws, it’s Megamouth (Megachasma pelagios) a large and rare species, reaching weights of 2700 pounds and lengths of 17 feet. Megamouth is the smallest […]
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In an Executive Order dated January 21, 2021, President Biden announced his administration would review the monument’s status including the Bears Ears of Utah and the NE Atlantic Marine National Monument. Included in this review will be the Trump Administrations proposal to allow commercial fishing in the Pacific Island protected areas in the the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument and the Pacific Remote Islands.
Read MoreJaws turns 45. Shark Survivor Turns Shark Champion
July 8, 2020 The image of the man-eating white shark has been burned into our collective unconscious, creating a phenomenon of fear catalyzed by the release of the world’s first summer […]
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*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* View this email in your browser LATEST NEWS | CAMPAIGNS | GET INVOLVED DONATE Celebrate the Ocean Happy World Oceans Day! In 1992, the United Nations established World Oceans […]
Read MoreShark Stewards Partners with ATM Timor Leste to Designate New Hope Spot
Situated in heart of the Coral Triangle region, Timor-Leste’s rich waters include the global epicentre of tropical marine biodiversity.
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Celebration for Timor Leste’s Ombai Wetar Straits Hope Spot On World Oceans Day 2020 we are celebrating the newly designated Ombai-Wetar Strait Hope Spot in Timor Leste. Earth Island’s Shark […]
Read MoreComments and Support the Chumash National Marine Sanctuary
Show your support for the next National Marine Sanctuary. The nomination of the Chumash National Marine Sanctuary off the central California coast has reached it’s five-year review and must be […]
Read MoreWhite Shark Attack – What is Your Risk?
Most of the encounters with white sharks along the west coast of North America occur with mature white sharks in the months between August and November. These months we call Sharktober are when the large white sharks return to the coast after an annual migration to forage on seals and sea lions.
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*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* View this email in your browser LATEST NEWS | CAMPAIGNS | GET INVOLVED DONATE Now For Some Good News Congratulations to former students and interns Viktoria Kuehn (left) and Karen […]
Read MoreShark Stewards Calls on eBay to Stop Sales of Endangered Sharks
eBay is openly allowing the traffic of parts from endangered and protected sawfish and sharks, namely sawfish rostrum and shark jaws protected under the Endangered Species Act, and the Convention […]
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