international discussions to increase trade and catch protection for endangered hammerhead and thresher sharks are underway at the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS COP15). In Hawaii, the Fisheries Council is taking Trump’s directive to open Marine National Monuments in the Hawaiian Islands and South Pacific to commercial fishing. Meanwhile, millions across the country are a rising tide of momentum to save the ocean and our rights at No Kings.
Read MoreStop Overfishing Endangered Sharks in the Global Shark Fin Trade
Join our Friends at Only One Expressing your Support to List 3 Families of sharks and Rays
An upcoming vote at the Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) at CoP19 November among over 180 nations could protect endangered sharks from the shark fin trade Please you add your name to this letter urging world leaders to end the shark fin trade driving the decline of many species of sharks.
Seeing Sharks, Saving Sharks
Thursday, October 27 6:30pm PDT Doors Open 7:00 Program Begins Seeing Sharks, Saving Sharks RSVP What To Expect Join us for a night of film and conversation on international shark protection with David […]
Read MoreOverfishing to Shark Fins: Blue Sharks Get the Blues
An estimated 20 million blue sharks are killed every year and enter the shark fin trade. Save this species form overfishing and the fin trade by protecting them under CITES Appendix II .
Read MoreArt for Sharks: Tom Ciccione
Join us for the last Art for Sharks event in 2021 with designer and print artist Tom Ciccone.
Read MoreWhere Have All the Blue Sharks Gone?
While Blue Sharks are some of the most extraordinary, personable swimmers of the ocean as well as one of the most abundant pelagic shark species in the world, little is still known about the biology or population health of this beautiful shark. This is primarily due to a disregard by fisheries management and general indifference to the high amount of bycatch and the emergent threat of shark finning.
Read MoreYear End Matching Donation Campaign Met!
WE DID IT! Thanks to generous donors our matching grant campaign was a success with a final $500 check made by a private donor December 31. Follow our work and […]
Read MoreBlue Sharks, Whale Sharks Receive Increased International Protection
“The fishery for blue sharks has been estimated to remove 20 million animals every year, this may well be the single largest removal of a large wild vertebrate from the […]
Read MoreSave Sharks with LUSH
Join us for a press event and public event to save overfished and threatened blue sharks.
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