Through campaigns, education, research, and expeditions, we inspire action to protect sharks and their ecosystems for future generations. The Shark Guardian team aim to advance the conservation of shark species worldwide for their sustainable management and to protect the natural environment. Shark Guardian does this through:
Conservation – Increasingly over the last decade, huge efforts have been made to encourage governments’ protection for sharks as well as the reduction of buying, trading, transporting or supplying any kind of shark product. We successfully collected 115,000 petition signatures to ban the import of shark fins within the UK for our Finspire Change UK campaign. We are active in stopping the transportation of shark fins at flywithoutfins.org and keenly collaborate with other organisations campaigns to protect sharks. Education - we educate thousands of people, mainly children, about sharks and marine life each year. Through school presentations, workshops, community events, scuba diving courses, and exhibitions. The charity has also produced two children’s books, hundreds of which have been donated to schools around the world. Research – we support several citizen science programs as well as provide funding and support for vital projects researching critically endangered elasmobranchs. Expeditions – each year we run expeditions to the South Africa Sardine Run. The team lead dives whilst presenting exciting facts so the audience can make better choices, and be inspired to save our most important species, and protect our oceans. Protect sharks, we protect the ocean. Protect the ocean, we protect ourselves.
