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Countries Agree on Actions to Protect Sharks

Hammerhead Sharks © Rob Stewart

Hammerhead Sharks © Rob Stewart

Governments, international shark experts and conservation organizations agree on measures to conserve the world’s sharks and rays at a United Nations–backed meeting in Costa Rica.

19 February 2016

International Meeting to Protect the World's Sharks Convenes in Costa Rica

Hammerhead sharks © Image Broker Robert Harding

Hammerhead sharks © Image Broker Robert Harding

The second Meeting of Signatories to the Convention on Migratory Species Sharks MOU is taking place in San José, Costa Rica, from 15 to 19 February.

15 February 2016

International Meeting to Conserve the World’s Sharks Taking Place in Costa Rica

Hammerhead Sharks © Image Broker Robert Harding

Hammerhead Sharks © Image Broker Robert Harding

The second meeting of the signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks is taking place in San José, Costa Rica from 15 to 19 February. It will be preceded by the first meeting of the Memorandum’s Advisory Committee under the chairmanship of John Carlson of the USA. The MOU is a non-legally binding instrument and was negotiated under the auspices of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS).

25 January 2016

2015/029: 2nd Meeting of Signatories (MOS2) to the Migratory Sharks MOU - Confirmation of Venue in San José, Costa Rica

Further to Notification 2015/022, the CMS Secretariat, in its capacity as Interim Secretariat of the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks (Sharks MOU), is pleased to

03 December 2015

Pilot Study on Giant Manta Ray Populations Launched

Oceanic Manta Ray (Manta birostris) Southern Spur, Fuvahmulah Atoll, Maldives

Oceanic Manta Ray (Manta birostris) Southern Spur, Fuvahmulah Atoll, Maldives © Guy Stevens Manta Trust 2015

Bonn, 19 October 2015 - CMS is launching a pilot study on the connectivity between Giant Manta Ray populations in the Galapagos and coastal Ecuador and Peru in cooperation with the Manta Trust and

19 October 2015

Study: Conservation Priorities for Shark and Ray Species included and proposed for inclusion in Annex 1 to the CMS Sharks MOU

The Sharks MOU has defined general objectives for the conservation and management of species and populations listed in Annex 1 of the MOU, which are further detailed in a global Conservation Plan for migratory Sharks (Annex 3 to the MOU).
18 October 2015

Connectivity between the populations of the Giant Manta Ray in the Galapagos Islands and coastal Ecuador and Peru

Giant Manta Ray populations are under increasing, unsustainable fisheries pressure in response to growing demand for their dried gill plates used as a pseudo-remedy in Chinese medicine. There is growing evidence suggesting that manta populations in regions with targeted fisheries are declining rapidly, and at least one population that was fished to near local extinction has not recovered even after decades of well-enforced conservation and management action.

22 October 2015

2015/022: 2nd Meeting of Signatories (MOS2) to the Migratory Shark MOU

The CMS Secretariat, in its capacity as Depository of the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks (Sharks MOU), is pleased to announce that the Second Meeting of Signato

18 August 2015

Conservation of Sea Turtles along the Coast of Peru

In order to conserve endangered species, it is highly important to manage information about the biology and ecology of their populations and also about the threats that had caused, and are still causing, their endangered situation. When the endangered species are migratory, the importance of this kind of information is higher due to the fact that conserving migratory species depends not only on one country but also on many countries around the world.

07 October 2016