What does it take to assess the extinction risk of an entire class of cartilaginous fishes? A new paper reflects on three decades of work coordinated through the IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group to develop global IUCN Red List assessments for sharks, rays, and chimaeras
We want to invite you to discover the eleventh issue of Shark News – the official IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Shark Specialist Group (SSG) magazine. Shark News provides a forum for the exchange of information on all aspects of shark, ray, and chimaera conservation matters for SSG members and the general interested audience.
New update on sawfish species published in the journal, Oryx.
Experts show deepwater sharks and rays are amongst the most sensitive marine vertebrates to overexploitation driven by international trade in meat and oil, urge conservation action
IUCN Shark Specialist Group nears the end of Global Shark Trends project.
Giant guitarfishes and wedgefishes, collectively called Rhino Rays, are now the world’s most threatened marine fish, based on new Red List assessments released today by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Shark Specialist Group (SSG). All but one of the 16 warm-water, shark-like ray species are assessed as Critically Endangered due primarily to overfishing for meat and fins.
The Shark Specialist Group (SSG) of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) today released updated Red List Assessments for 58 species of sharks and rays, 17 of which were classified as threatened with extinction. The results are part of a global project to assess population trends based on a series of expert workshops, the first of which focused on Australian species as well as oceanic species found worldwide.
