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LINKS TO SHARKS NEWS

The MOU has its own dedicated website - http://sharksmou.org/ - which can be accessed by clicking here.

NEWS ARTICLES RELATING TO SHARKS

Whale Sharks in the News: Citizen Science, Migration Revelations and High Fashion (Scientific American)

Chinese appetite for shark fin soup devastating Mozambique coastline (Guardian)

Funding for Aberdeen research using shark immune systems to develop drugs (BBC)

The Shark Trade of the Arabian Sea (Time)

MEPs vote to close shark-finning loopholes (BBC)

Le parlement européen met fin à la découpe en mer des ailerons de requin (Le Monde)

EU stoppt grausame Verstümmelung von Haien (Spiegel)

Ofensiva de la Eurocámara contra la amputación de aletas de tiburón (El Mundo)

Un nouveau pas vers la protection des requins (Le Monde)

Plan to kill great white sharks that swim too close to Australian beaches (Guardian)

Australien gibt Weißen Hai zur Jagd frei (Spiegel)

Cathay Pacific bans shipping of sharks products (CNN)

Fatal attacks prompt call to lift ban on killing great white sharks (Guardian)

La justice estime qu'il n'y a pas urgence à interdire la pêche au requin à La Réunion (Le Monde)

Whale shark ecotourism: the good, the bad and the ugly (Deep Sea News)

Des associations déposent un recours contre les "battues de requins" à la Réunion (Le Monde)

Mangez-moi – Un militant s’engage à nager sur les lieux des attaques de requin (Le Monde)

Sharks tracked by surfing robot and free app (BBC)

Un premier requin tigre prélevé au large de la Réunion (Le Monde)

Jagd auf den Hai rettet kein Menschenleben (Die Welt)

Echec de la première pêche au requin à la Réunion (Le Monde)

La pêche au requin démarre à la Réunion, sans garantir de "risque zéro" (Le Monde)

Shark with plastic around nose prompts litter warning (BBC)

Les requins font moins de victimes que les méduses (Le Monde)

Réunion Island revokes order to hunt sharks (Guardian)

Sharks may come off protected list after population review (Herald Sun)

Le grand requin blanc pourrait ne plus être protégé en Australie (Le Monde)

China plans banquet ban on shark fin (CNN)

The UK takes another step to protect endangered sharks (DEFRA news release)

Australia to create world's largest marine reserve (BBC)

Shark attacks: A magnetic solution? (BBC)

Experts call for basking shark awareness (BBC)

Shark protection measures an EU first (Scottish Government)

Mixed Results for Sharks at Pacific Tuna Commission Meeting (Sharks Advocates International Press Release)

Appetite for shark fin soup 'causing decline of blue sharks in UK waters' (Guardian)

Giant basking sharks venture to Hawaii to hang out (MSNBC)

La chaîne hôtelière Shangri-La bannit à son tour les ailerons de requins (RTL.be)

Under 1% Atlantic shark species protected by conservation efforts (Guardian)

New Laws in California & Marshall Islands Protect Sharks (Reef Check)

Governor signs shark fin ban (San Francisco Chronicle)

Shark massacre reported in Colombian waters (Guardian)

Opération de marquage de requins à la Réunion après la hausse des attaques (Le Monde)

Vast shark sanctuary created in Pacific (BBC)

Making Headway in the Movement to Protect the World’s Sharks (New York Times)

California legislature approves shark fin ban (Reuters)

Blue Shark found on Lewis in the Western Isles (BBC)

Great White Sharks "could be in British waters" (BBC)

Pacific Islands band together on a shark sanctuary (New York Times)

Bahamas Bans Shark Fishing (BBC News website)

Honduras Creates a Shark Sanctuary (New York Times blog)

Pacific Island Countries Step Up Shark Conservation Efforts (PR news wire)

Marshalls Bid to Curb Shark Finning (Radio New Zealand International)

Shark Fishing Banned in Mexican Waters (FIS)

More Valuable Alive than Dead - Australian scientific research

Statement by the Government of Chile on signing the Sharks MOU - in Spanish

Fact Sheet issued by the Government of Australia on Sharks - links to Australian Government website

Shark finning continues despite EU ban - a report from the BBC website

Shark attacks off Egypt's Red Sea coast - a report from the BBC website

New Zealand acts to protect Basking Sharks - text of the Wildlife (Basking Sharks) Order November 2010

Shark Attack Survivors Press U.N. to “Save the Sharks” - report of Pew Trust press conference

Pew Trust - Shark Conservation Work (links to the Pew Trust's Website)

 

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