White Shark Trust

17/09/2026

"Today is !

This year’s theme, Collaboration, reflects exactly what manta conservation requires.

Manta rays move across borders and depend on particular places to feed, clean, aggregate, and reproduce. Protecting them requires researchers, local communities, governments, conservation organisations, and other partners to work together by sharing knowledge, strengthening research, reducing threats, and safeguarding the habitats that matter most.

The Important Shark and Ray Areas (ISRA) process is one example of what this collaboration can achieve. By bringing together over a thousand scientists and local experts, it is helping identify important habitats for manta and devil rays and providing a science-based foundation for conservation and management action.

Today, we celebrate these extraordinary ocean giants and everyone working together to protect them and their habitats.

Explore important areas for manta and devil rays around the world through the ISRA e-Atlas: www.sharkrayareas.org

Illustration © IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group and Eloisa Pinheiro

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04/07/2024

03/10/2023

Why are these orcas killing sharks and removing their livers?

Questions abounded when sevengill shark carcasses with pectoral tears and missing livers began washing up on the South African coast. Then a marine biologist found something: orca tooth impressions.

When sevengill shark carcasses with pectoral tears and missing livers began washing up on the South African coast, questions abounded. Then a marine biologist found something: orca tooth impressions.

02/10/2023

South Africa’s great white sharks are changing locations – they need to be monitored for beach safety and conservation

South Africa’s white shark population is not in decline but migrating to survive.

20/01/2023

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21/07/2022

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