Nicely done Tom. ❤️🦈

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. 💙🦈

Basking Shark Project 2024 report A summary of the Basking Shark Project records from citizen scientists for 2024

The 2024 Basking Shark Project report is out. Check out what’s been spotted this year, what we’ve got planned for 2025 and what to do if you’re lucky enough to see one of these magnificent sharks.
#sharks #conservation #citizenscience #wildlife

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Thanks for coming and glad you enjoyed. It’s always great to look out at a sea of shark loving faces!

Flat-cap Clarkson only wants his nose in the trough | Stewart Lee The broadcaster thinks if he fires up his farming fanbase they can shield him from his obligation to contribute his fair share to society

“It’s worth remembering…10,000 tax-fearing farmers are getting a lot more media coverage than the 50,000 people who attended the Restore Nature Now march in June. Is this the real two-tier Britain?”
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🦈 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.

Unprecedented International Effort to Prevent Shark Finning Blocked by Japan & China - Shark League for the Atlantic and Mediterranean ICCAT meeting ends in dramatic defeat of proposal to end at-sea fin removal while other shark safeguards advance Limassol, Cyprus. November 18, 2024. This year’s meeting of the International Commissio...

Frustratingly, Atlantic fishing nations have once again failed to agree on adopting a proposal to end at-sea removal of shark fins. Try and try again…
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#shark #conservation #ICCAT #finzon

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

I blame Jason Statham. Confusing everyone.

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...

Oceanic 31 Oceanic 31 is our new shark art exhibition. The Shark Trust has brought together artists from a variety of backgrounds who are passionate about wildlife, conservation, and using art as a tool for posi...

Hello Bluesky. Mostly going to be Shark Trust related on here. As a taster, here’s a current project which is drawing to a close this month. #Oceanic31 - check out the amazing artwork and, if you want, have a punt on getting one for yourself. www.sharktrust.org/oceanic31