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02/05/2026

World Tuna Day is a reminder that the choices on our plates are connected to life beneath the surface.
Tuna are not just a popular food source. They are powerful ocean predators, part of complex food webs, and often linked to wider conservation issues such as overfishing and bycatch of sharks, rays, turtles, and seabirds.
It is not always easy to change habits or food preferences, and nobody is perfect. But every conscious decision matters. Choosing more responsibly sourced seafood, reducing unnecessary consumption, and learning where our food comes from can help shift industries that are harmful to our oceans.
Protecting tuna also means protecting sharks, marine ecosystems, and the balance of ocean life.
This World Tuna Day, let’s choose with awareness. 💙

25/04/2026

Marine Protected Areas are a key tool in ocean conservation, helping to safeguard biodiversity, restore ecosystems, and support sustainable use of marine resources.
From protecting critical habitats to enabling species recovery and spillover effects, their success depends on thoughtful design, effective management, and ecological connectivity.
Ultimately, healthy oceans rely on connected ecosystems where protection goes beyond boundaries and supports life across the entire marine system.
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22/04/2026

Today we celebrate Earth Day; an opportunity to consider the health of the world and our duty to protect it. The Earth Day Network mobilises millions of people worldwide to support environmental justice, conservation, and climate action.

As apex predators, sharks are essential to the health of our oceans. Their conservation is important because of their function in maintaining food webs, safeguarding coral reefs, and boosting biodiversity.

Shark populations are currently declining alarmingly worldwide. Every year, shark finning and targeted fisheries kill millions of animals, while habitat degradation and climate change exacerbate the situation. The end effect is fewer sharks, poorer ecosystems, and increased susceptibility for the planet’s blue carbon systems.

Shark conservation is an effective approach that strengthens ocean resilience and ensures the planet’s future, highlighting the interdependence of human wellbeing, biodiversity, and climatic stability.

This Earth Day, recognising that saving sharks is equated with protecting the Earth, serves as an important call to action for everyone.

18/04/2026

This Q&A with Hugues de Kerdrel, founder of the Mission William Project, explores the origins of the initiative, the challenges of whale shark conservation, and the vision behind this growing international effort. Read the post to learn more about how the project began and what it means for him to be named by the Explorers Club as one of the 50 Most Influential Guardians. Follow to stay up to date with Hugues projects🦈

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30/03/2026

This just happened.
Last week, at the UN’s CMS COP15 conference in Campo Grande, Brazil, both the great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran) and scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini), amongst other species, were uplisted to CMS Appendix I — the highest level of protection the Convention offers.

Here’s why that matters and how we got here.
Hammerhead populations have suffered population declines of 60–99%, driven by the high value of their fins and their vulnerability at every life stage. They’re slow to grow, slow to reproduce, and their migratory nature means they pass through the waters of multiple nations, making them nearly impossible to protect through single-country action alone.

As far back as 2014, great and scalloped hammerheads were placed on CMS Appendix II, which encouraged cooperation but fell short of mandating protection.

It was a start — but not enough.
This time, Ecuador brought the uplisting proposals to COP15, backed by Panama, the EU, Brazil, Kenya, Norway, Fiji, and many more. The vote passed with near consensus.
But here’s the gap that remains. CMS Appendix I prohibits the taking of listed species by Range States, but exceptions exist, and crucially, it does not govern international trade in fins. Fins still cross borders through countries not bound by these rules.

The next frontier is CITES Appendix I, which would close that trade gap globally.
CMS acted. Now CITES must.

We’re working on something to push this further. Stay close. Follow

28/03/2026

This post dives deep into the relationship between sharks and remoras, and it might just change everything you thought you knew about it. 🦈
We grow up learning mutualism, commensalism and parasitism like they’re clean, fixed categories. But the reality? It’s way more complicated than that. Some sharks experience all three, and the remora sits right at the centre of the debate.
Turns out, where a remora attaches on a shark’s body makes a huge difference. Certain spots are low drag and high reward. Others? A measurable cost for the shark. The same animal can be a helpful companion or a quiet burden depending on exactly where it’s holding on.
And the hitchhiking effect goes further than most people realise. Remoras aren’t just passengers, they’re participants, moving through ecosystems alongside their hosts in ways that ripple outward.
Researchers now describe remora symbiosis not as a single relationship type, but as a “spectrum of fitness consequences that shifts through space and time.” In other words, it depends. And that nuance matters.
Because if we want to conserve sharks, we have to understand the full picture. That includes every species that travels with them. 🌊
📖 Gayford, J. H. (2024). The multidimensional spectrum of eco‐evolutionary relationships between sharks and remoras. Journal of Fish Biology.

21/03/2026

Pollution doesn’t always look like an oil carpet. Sometimes it sounds like a motorboat. 🌊

We talk a lot about plastic and overfishing. But there’s a growing threat to our oceans that’s almost entirely invisible and it’s one we’re only beginning to understand. Noise pollution is now recognised as a global ocean pollutant, and the early evidence suggests sharks may be among its hidden victims.

Sharks have extraordinary hearing systems that evolved over hundreds of millions of years for a much quieter ocean than the one we’ve created. And as shipping traffic grows, commercial activity expands, and our coastlines get busier, that ocean is getting louder every year.

We don’t yet have all the answers, the science is still young and we know very little about how sound influences sharks. But the pattern emerging from the research that does exist is concerning enough to act on.

Swipe through to find out what we know, what we don’t, and why it matters.

We’re taking these concerns directly to the policymakers who have the power to change things and we need your support to do it. Link in bio. 🦈

14/03/2026

Today we are sharing something that is changing the way scientists monitor endangered sharks.

Researchers are now able to detect critically endangered shark species from nothing more than a water sample. By analysing environmental DNA shed by sharks as they move through the ocean, scientists can confirm presence without ever seeing, catching, or disturbing a single animal.

Three recent studies demonstrate just how powerful this tool has become. In the Chagos Archipelago, eDNA metabarcoding revealed ten elasmobranch species from water samples alone, including a devil ray potentially never before recorded in the area. In Colombia, species-specific assays detected three critically endangered hammerhead sharks inside a national park, two of which hadn’t been seen for a long time. And in the Mediterranean, researchers used particle drift modeling to trace where critically endangered white sharks had been up to 128 hours before the sample was even collected.

This science matters because for species too rare to survey by conventional means, eDNA may be the only realistic way to generate the data that informs protection measures.

The full breakdown of all three studies is in our carousel above, with citations on the bottom left side. If you would like to get more information, check out the papers!

DOI 1: doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac014
DOI 2: doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1688088
DOI 3: doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2023.s1.28

🌊 Better data means better protection for the sharks

12/03/2026

Today we are sharing an incredible new scientific discovery.
Researchers have confirmed the first documented whale shark movement between and , showing that these gentle giants travel more than 1,200 km across national boundaries.

A juvenile male first recorded off Nosy Be (Madagascar) in 2019 was resighted in Mahé (Seychelles) in 2025, providing rare evidence that whale sharks in the western Indian Ocean form a shared transboundary population.
This finding highlights how important international collaboration and long-term monitoring are for understanding and protecting endangered species.

The discovery was made possible through collaboration between the Madagascar Whale Shark Project and the Marine Conservation Society Seychelles.
The Madagascar Whale Shark Project is supported by us, helping advance research and conservation for the world’s largest fish.

Protecting them requires cooperation across borders, just like the journey of this incredible shark.
If you would like to support conservation efforts like this, consider donating to Sharkproject.

🌊 Together we can protect whale sharks.

02/03/2026

🦈✨ Sharkproject at the Austrian Boat Show in Tulln ✨🦈

This year, we were once again part of the Austrian Boat Show at Messe Tulln – and what can we say? It was simply amazing!

We had the pleasure of meeting so many inspiring visitors who are truly passionate about shark conservation. The many engaging conversations, the exchange about sharks, their fascinating lives, and the urgent need for marine protection once again showed us how strong the interest and commitment really are. 🌊💙

We were especially delighted to welcome our youngest guests: many young shark fans took part in our quiz and proudly received their “Shark Researcher” certificate. 🦈🎓 Seeing the excitement in their eyes is always an incredible motivation for us!

A heartfelt thank you as well to everyone who supported us with a donation. Every single contribution helps us continue advancing our projects to protect sharks worldwide.

And of course, a big thank you to all our supporters – our work would not be possible without you! 💙

Together, we give sharks a voice.

15/02/2026

Today is a reminder of how important whales are to the health of our oceans. They help circulate nutrients, support marine productivity, and store significant amounts of carbon throughout their long lifetimes. When whale populations are healthy, ocean ecosystems are stronger and more resilient.

A healthy ocean does not rely on just one species. Sharks, whales, fish, coral, and plankton all play essential roles. Conservation only works when we protect the full network of species that keep marine ecosystems functioning.
Whales continue to face major human pressures such as ship strikes, fishing gear entanglement, pollution, underwater noise, and climate change. Protecting them means addressing these impacts and thinking about ocean conservation as a whole.
Ocean health depends on balance, and that balance depends on all of them. 🌊

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