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Shark Savers

About Shark Savers:

Founded in 2007, Shark Savers’ campaigns and programs focus on education, action, and results; results that save sharks and their habitats. Shark Savers brings shark conservation to the international community in many compelling forms, motivating people to stop consuming sharks, partnering with local groups and NGO’s to create shark and ray sanctuaries, supporting shark fin trade bans, documenting the global status of manta and mobula rays, and engaging divers as citizen scientists.

Shark conservation is an enormous challenge because sharks are being fished out of the oceans by the millions and cannot reproduce fast enough to overcome this intensive fishing pressure; and, in many areas, this over-exploitation is often driven by the shark fin trade, to supply the demand for shark fin soup. Sharks are already depleted in many of the areas where they were once plentiful.

Shark Savers enables people to make a difference and take a stand in their homes, their communities, and all over the world for sharks. Today, over 10,000 Shark Savers members from 99 nations share a sense of urgency to take action to protect sharks.

Shark SaversShark Savers’ Mission:

“Our mission is to save the sharks.” We empower people to take action by getting involved in our programs and campaigns to aggregate and maximize their impact for the cause of protecting sharks.

See ‘Our Programs’.

 

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Shark Savers’ SharksCount Program

“We’re counting sharks, because every shark counts.”

SharksCount engages divers as ‘citizen scientists’ for sharks. We empower divers to count and identify the sharks that they see on their recreational dives. SharksCount provides the tools to log and share shark sightings with us for conservation purposes.

What is ‘citizen science’?

A network of volunteers, many of whom may have no specific scientific training, performing research-related tasks such as recording species observations accumulated over time to reveal local trends.

See ‘SharksCount Program’

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Welcome to The Great Fiji Shark Count !

Throughout the months of April and November every year, you have the opportunity to help celebrate and record Fiji’s amazing coral reef biodiversity, show you care about our world’s delicate coral reef systems, and have fun, by taking part in the FIJI-WIDE SHARK COUNT!

Easy to do, this is suitable for visitors and locals alike, whether you like to fish, snorkel, or SCUBA dive. We hope that tourists, school children, scientists and all people with an interest in the marine environment will take to the reefs with us to search for the Sharks of Fiji!

The Great Fiji Shark Count will be held across Fiji every April and November every year.

You can do a single count, or take part as many times as you like during that month, so that you cover different reefs. All data will be gratefully accepted!

So, see your resort, watersports operator or travel agent, get your Shark identification materials and dive into the beautiful blue waters of Fiji, to be a part of history!

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