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The paper presents the reasons why large predators of great ecological importance cannot supply the rising demand for shark fins, which is driven by profits that rival the drug trade and involves the fisheries of nations around the globe.
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The Chinese government has imposed a 10-year commercial fishing ban in the Yangtze River to combat "across-the-board" declines in the populations of rare species like the Chinese sturgeon.
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Although shark fin fishing is not currently practiced in St.
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To successfully conserve and restore manatee populations, scientists need to know how many of them there are in a specific habitat.
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The largetooth sawfish (Pristis pristis) is found worldwide in tropical and subtropical coastal regions, but also enters freshwater.
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Indus river dolphins are one of only four river dolphin species and subspecies in the world that spend all of their lives in freshwater.
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According to Indonesia's Tempo newspaper, the government will temporarily close the popular tourist attraction in January 2020. The news comes after police busted a ring of lizard smugglers last month that were going to sell 41 Komodo Dragons.
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The award ceremony was held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel London on Thursday 24 January 2019.
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With eighty percent of the snow crabs in Newfoundland and Labrador currently smaller than fishable size, Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has warned that continued fishing pressure may lead to long-term harm to the species.
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Japan calls for an end to a decades-old ban on commercial whaling arguing there is no longer a scientific reason for what was supposed to be a temporary measure.
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Two beluga whales will set off from an aquarium in China to a sanctuary in Iceland billed as the first of its kind for cetaceans.
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The effort to establish the retirement community for cetaceans started two years ago when the Whale Sanctuary Project, based in the United States, announced it was looking at sites in North America where it could set-up a large seaside enclosure.
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The first of its kind in Costa Rica, the Scalloped Hammerhead Shark Sanctuary of Golfo Dulce is the result of a collaboration between Rainforest Trust and Misión Tiburón.
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Although the common bottlenose dolphin is not endangered, scientists have raised concerns with regards to a specific population of them inhabiting the Bocas Del Toro Archipelago in Panama.
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After collecting genetic samples from more than 550 sea snakes in the tropical shallow waters around Australia, Dr Vimoksalehi Lukoschek from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies discovered that the genetic diversity of sea snake po
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A worldwide study of giant clams have found that the world’s largest clam species -the Tridacna gigas - is the world’s most threatened mollusc.
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