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Batoidea - Sharks & Rays
 Mote Marine Laboratory researchers are asking for the public's help documenting spotted eagle rays. |
 Stingrays living in Stingray City in the Cayman Islands — have profoundly changed their ways, reports a new study published in the journal PLOS One. |
 Campaigners hailed the move as historic and said the vote represented a major breakthrough for marine conservation. |
 Indonesia has announced that it will set aside a haven for sharks and manta rays in a remote dive destination located in what is known as the “Amazon of the Ocean” due to its abundant and diverse... |
 New research on migratory behavior of oceanic whitetip sharks can help shape conservation strategies |
 Shark pups in embryos play dead in a predator presence, literally holding their breath and becoming still, shutting down their own electric field. |
 Fishermen in Northern England are to be trained to identify different shark species in a project to help protect stocks. |
 A five metre basking shark that spends its summers in Lough Foyle and near Malin Head has been detected off the western coast of Africa. |
 Healthy natural river systems help keeping bull sharks away from man-made canals. |
 WA government has announced AUS $2 million in funding for shark hazard-reduction research, following one of the worst years for shark attacks in the state’s history. |
 Cook Islands declared a 1.9 million-sq-km sanctuary, contiguous with one established last week by neighbouring French Polynesia. |
 Five-year study concludes tourism not affecting Ningaloo Reef whale sharks |
 Conservation groups are celebrating today’s European Parliament vote to close loopholes in the European Union ban on shark finning (slicing off a shark’s fins and discarding the body at sea), the... |
 The Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) reveilles that Australian fisheries continue to support the international trade in shark fin. |
 Shark's brains share several common features with those of humans. |
 Relative to body size, bull sharks bite harder than their larger relatives. |
 Moon phases, wind speeds, and other environmental factors affect manta ray behaviour. |
 At least 37 countries, including the United States and Mexico, have proposed protections for ten shark and ray species under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). |
 A group of countries are taking action to protect sharks under an international treaty. |
 Courts Asia has announced it is taking a corporate-wide pledge to not eat or serve shark fin soup. |
 Not all white sharks are alike – at least when it comes to the sort of food they like to eat. |
 New research which could help to deter and conserve sharks has confirmed that many of the ocean predators are probably completely colour blind. |
 Critically endangered grey nurse shark to be protected by NSW government. |
 WWF and TRAFFIC recently released a new report that shows the need for a more concerted effort in managing shark fisheries in the Coral Triangle, to help conserve dwindling populations of these... |
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