Meet Valentina, who hopes to help improve the survival chances of unborn shark and ray embryos that wash ashore in mass strandings of their egg cases.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/savi...
#SOSF2025Projects #savingsharks #sharkeggs #Chile
Illustration by Kelsey Manners Dickson
Introducing Thomas, who wants to understand how and where porbeagle sharks are reproducing in the north-eastern Atlantic.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/prot...
#SOSF2025Projects #saveourseasfoundation #porbeagle #conservation #lifestages
Illustration by Kelsey Manners Dickson
Introducing Kara, who is characterising brain morphology from an existing collection of smalltooth sawfish, using advanced 3D bio-imaging to predict behavioural and sensory shifts throughout life.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/bio-...
#SOSF2025Projects #sawfish #Florida #spinningdisease
Meet Rihab, who is using baited remote underwater video system surveys to gather data on critical habitats and confirm aggregation areas for sharks and rays.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/wher...
#SOSF2025Projects #Tunisia #BRUV #sharksandrays
Illustration by Kelsey Manners Dickson
Introducing Wongibe, who is on a mission to reduce the bycatch of scalloped hammerhead sharks in targeted fishing areas by 20% in Cameroon.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/maki...
#SOSF2025Projects #saveourseasfoundation #Cameroon #hammerheadshark #conservation
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Meet Petter, who is intent on closing the gap in ecological knowledge of north-western Atlantic spiny dogfish in Sweden.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/futu...
#SOSF2025Projects #saveourseasfoundation #spinydogfish #Sweden #ecologicalknowledge
Illustration by Kelsey Manners Dickson
Meet Nimna, who hopes to test the efficacy of eDNA sampling to make more comprehensive inventories of biodiversity to monitor sharks and rays in Sri Lanka.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/the-...
#SOSF2025Projects #eDNA #sharksandrays #SriLanka
Illustration by Kelsey Manners Dickson
Introducing Jorge, who is diving into the inky darkness, developing new animal-borne tags to understand the importance of the twilight-zone for oceanic sharks and rays in a changing ocean.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/deep...
#SOSF2025Projects #saveourseasfoundation #twlightzone
Meet Ni Kadek, who will be working toward understanding the reproduction strategy of Critically Endangered bottlenose wedgefish in Indonesia for future species-specific conservation planning.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/prev...
#SOSF2025Projects #bottlenosewedgefish #Indonesia
Meet Nahla, who will determine guitarfish ages, filling in knowledge gaps and preparing recommendations to inform policies for three Critically Endangered guitarfish species.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/brin...
#SOSF2025Projects #guitarfish
Illustration by Kelsey Manners Dickson
Meet Simon, who is working towards understanding the degree of connectivity between oceanic mantas in the Maldives and those found in Sri Lankan fisheries surveys.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/ocea...
Footage by Simon Hilbourne
#SOSF2025Projects #oceanicmantaray #SriLanka #Maldives
Meet Sam, who wants to understand what is driving inshore shark movements in Ascension Island. Frequent encounters with Galápagos & silky sharks in shallow coastal waters have created conflict with ocean users.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/livi...
#SOSF2025Projects #AscensionIsland
Introducing Eva, who is trying to understand how sharks use marine reserves in Fiordland and provide insights into their movements and habitat use.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/are-...
#SOSF2025Projects #Fiordland #schoolshark #spinydogfish #broadnosesevengillshark
Meet Muhammad, who is supporting accurate assessments of the status of endangered rhino rays in the Malacca Strait, one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/find...
#SOSF2025Projects #saveourseasfoundation #rhinorays #MalaccaStrait #management
Introducing Adriana, who is documenting the diversity and occurrence of sharks, rays and chimaeras in Timor-Leste’s almost totally undocumented waters.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/cata...
#SOSF2025Projects #saveourseasfoundation #Timor-Leste #diversity #sharksrayschimaeras
Meet Stella, who is investigating whether juvenile whale sharks use Nosy Be’s waters in Madagascar year-round.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/trac...
#SOSF2025Projects #saveourseasfoundation #whaleshark #Madagascar
Introducing Stephen, a recipient of our Small Grants.
We look forward to following along as Stephen looks into speciation and genetic fragmentation across global stocks of spotted eagle rays.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/dist...
#SOSF2025Projects #spottedeaglerays #geneticpopulation
Meet Rodrigo, who is testing whether guitarfish exposed to pressures by humans express a greater number of stress-adaptation-related genes.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/are-...
#SOSF2025Projects #saveourseasfoundation #guitarfish #Brazil
Photo by Rodrigo Domingues
Introducing Szu-Hsuan, a recipient of our Small Grant. Szu is diving deep into the DNA of white sharks, hoping to capture the first clear images of their chromosomes and sex chromosomes.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/the-...
#SOSF2025Projects #saveourseasfoundation #DNA #whitesharks
Meet Metavee, who wants to rebuild public trust by introducing expert telemetry training. The goal is to regain public trust so that effective research can inform shark protection.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/trai...
#SOSF2025Projects #saveourseasfoundation #sharkconservation
Meet Reem, who will be investigating the distribution, composition, and seasonality of shark species in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/shar...
#SOSF2025Projects #saveourseasfoundation #sharks #Bahrain
Meet Nicolas, who is on a mission to determine the characteristics of essential habitats for feeding, reproduction and shelter in three threatened hammerhead species across northern Australia.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/life...
#SOSF2025Projects #hammerheads
Photo by Nicolas Lubitz
Introducing Olga, who is quantifying the extent to which tiger sharks feed on threatened dugongs and turtles in Shark Bay, Australia.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/tige...
#SOSF2025Projects #saveourseasfoundation #SharkBay #Australia #dugongs #turtles
Meet Jack, who is assessing kinship and population genetics in globally important populations of dwarf sawfish and green sawfish in northern Australia.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/kins...
Illustration by Kelsey Manners Dickson
#SOSF2025Projects #saveourseasfoundation #sawfish
Meet Nelly, who is working toward the effective management of fisheries related to the Chilean eagle ray.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/cons...
#SOSF2025Projects #saveourseasfoundation #Chileaneagleray #Peru #HumboldtCurrent
Photo by Nelly Cutimbo
Meet Maria, who will delineate a 10-square-kilometre no-take zone around a unique high-occurrence area for the Critically Endangered scalloped bonnethead in Colombia.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/bett...
Photos by Emilio Posada
#SOSF2025Projects #scallopedbonnethead #Colombia
Introducing Mina, who is working towards understanding drivers and solutions for depredation amidst a changing climate.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/atti...
#SOSF2025Projects #saveourseasfoundation #Maldives #sharkdepredation
Introducing Edéya, who will pioneer improvement in shark fisheries practices in Benin.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/impr...
Illustration by Kelsey Manners Dickson
#SOSF2025Projects #saveourseasfoundation #sharkfisheries #Benin
Introducing M Said, who will develop and test incentive-based approaches for shark and ray conservation in small-scale fisheries in Lunyuk, Indonesia.
More info here: saveourseas.com/project/loca...
#SOSF2025Projects #saveourseasfoundation #sharkconservation