The IUCN Species Survival Commission Shark Specialist Group, with support from the IUCN Global Marine and Polar Programme and the IUCN Task Force on Marine Mammal Protected Areas, is engaged in an effort to develop an expert-driven innovative approach to ensure that discrete portions of habitats, critical to shark species — Important Shark and Ray Areas (ISRA) — are delineated and used in various place-based conservation and management initiatives across the world’s ocean.
We want to invite you to discover the fourth 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.
An article introducing the Important Shark and Ray Areas was featured in the Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative (GOBI) latest newsletter. The article highlights the need for this new tool to delineate those areas most important to the persistence of sharks and how it can contribute to improved spatial planning.
We want to invite you to discover the third 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.
Experts classify one-third of chondrichthyan fish species as threatened, urge conservation action Guitarfishes and wedgefishes are among the most threatened rays, due to the high value of their large fins. This Whitespotted Wedgefish (Rhynchobatus djiddensis) reaches over 3 metres long and is classified as Critically Endangered by IUCN.
We want to invite you to discover the second issue of the official IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Shark Specialist Group (SSG) newsletter: Shark News
The CITES Secretariat and the Secretariat of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) have jointly published two guides to facilitate the identification of shark and ray species common in the Southeast Asian region.
We want to invite you to discover the first issue of the official IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Shark Specialist Group (SSG) newsletter.
