Another busy year for the Shark Trust. Highlights include launching the Shark Trust podcast, sharing critical messages at international conferences, and making significant strides with the Big Shark Pledge campaign - to name just a few!
Thank you to everyone who has supported us throughout 2024. 💙🦈

🦈 Progress for Sharks & Rays at ICCAT last week!🦈

✅Manta & Devil Rays: The UK championed a ban on retention and promoted safe release.
✅Whale Sharks: The EU secured similar protections and plans to expand them to Basking & White Sharks next year.

Here’s a beautiful pic of a butterfly ray for you.

These rays are known for their burying behaviour in the sand, a technique they use to camouflage themselves when resting during the day.

This can leave tell-tale Butterfly-Ray shaped imprints on the seabed.

📸 Andy Murch

This happening this weekend:

The fins-naturally-attached policy is now widely regarded as the best practice for ensuring finning ban compliance. The adoption of fins-naturally-attached is OVERDUE!

To read more: www.sharkleague.org/2024/11/01/i...