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Shark Alliance Member Groups - International
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Conservation International
www.conservation.org
Clean Air. Fresh Water. Abundant Resources. These are the foundations of communities around the world, the irreplaceable gifts of a healthy natural world. Conservation International is applying smart solutions to protect them.
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Humane Society International
www.hsi.org
Humane Society International and its partner organizations together constitute one of the world's largest animal protection
organizations—backed by 11 million people. For nearly 20 years, HSI has been fighting for the protection of all animals through advocacy, education, and hands-on programs. Celebrating animals and confronting cruelty worldwide—On the Web at hsi.org.
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IndyACT
www.indyact.org
IndyAct is a global, non-political league of independent environmental, social and cultural activists with the aim to achieve an active, healthy, safe, equitable and beautiful planet by activating, supporting and connecting similar passionate “independent activists” and providing them with the required professional skills and resources to reach that aim. IndyAct operates on all levels (local, regional and global) and uses non-violent direct and indirect actions to create the necessary pressure or inspire the required change.
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Mike Horn Pangaea Shark Project
www.mikehorn.com / www.pangaea4sharks.com
Mike Horn's Pangaea Project is deeply committed to the exploration and conservation of the marine ecosystem. To this end, the Pangaea Shark Project seeks to conserve and preserve Sharks by Exploring, Learning and Acting. The Pangaea project invites young adults to become ambassadors for our planet, to share its beauty, uniqueness and delicate balance, and to give them the necessary tools to enable actions in the form of projects.
EXPLORE - Pangaea will travel 100'000 kilometer around the globe 2008-2012 exploring the realm of the Sharks, diving with many different species, and exploring human impact on Shark populations.
LEARN and teach - The project will be involved in assisting research and conservation projects along with leading scientists to further current knowledge of Sharks in terms of behaviour, ecology, and biology. The project shares this knowledge with the public through outreach programs and distribution of informative material. Through education, the Pangaea Shark Project will dispel myths surrounding Sharks and Shark bites.
ACT – The Pangaea Shark Project's mission is to promote Shark conservation through awareness, to promote the longterm sustainable use of marine ecosystems through the development of tourism activities to divert from fishing activities, and to support the implementation of protective legislation and adequate management plans. The project will focus on a micro-scale model problems to be implemented into macro-scale solutions.
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Project AWARE Foundation (International)
www.projectaware.org
Project AWARE Foundation is a growing movement of scuba divers protecting the ocean planet – one dive at a time.
Over the past two decades of underwater conservation we’ve learned that divers are true leaders in ocean protection. We’re ocean heroes numbering in the millions across the globe. We believe together our actions will make a huge impact and will help to rescue the ocean.
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Save Our Seas Foundation
www.saveourseas.com
Save Our Seas Foundation is a non-profit organisation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Its purpose is to implement and support diverse programmes centred around the protection of the Earth's marine environment.
The following four principles are at the heart of the Foundation’s mission in providing inspiration for the urgent preservation of the planet's marine heritage: conservation, awareness, research and education. |
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Shark Research Institute
www.sharks.org
Shark Research Institute (SRI), a multi-disciplinary 'non-profit' scientific research organization, was created to sponsor and conduct research on sharks and promote their conservation. Founded in 1991 at Princeton, New Jersey, USA, SRI has field offices in Florida, Pennsylvania and Texas, as well as Australia, Canada, Ecuador, Honduras, India, Mexico, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa and the United Kingdom.
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Shark Savers
Shark Savers is dedicated to turning the tide for sharks. They focus on curbing the demand for shark fin soup, creating safe havens for sharks, growing local advocacy, educating the public on the issues and serving as the desperately needed voice for sharks. Shark Savers brings shark conservation to the masses in many compelling forms, motivating people to take action in their home, their local businesses and throughout shark hot spots all over the world.
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Slow Food International
www.slowfood.com
Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.
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Pew Environment Group
www.pewenvironment.org
The Pew Environment Group, the conservation arm of The Pew Charitable Trusts, strives to advance scientific understanding of the causes, consequences and solutions to environmental problems, to design innovative policy solutions to these problems, and to mobilise public support for implementing these solutions. We are focused on reducing the scope and severity of the destruction of the world’s oceans, with a particular emphasis on global marine fisheries. The objective of the Pew Environment Group’s European Marine Programme is to support the European Union in ending global overfishing and reducing destruction of the world´s oceans. The Shark Alliance was initiated, and is co-ordinated, by the Pew Environment Group.
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WildAid
www.wildaid.org
A non-profit organisation, WildAid is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in the UK, Canada, China, India, Ecuador and Indonesia.
WildAid's mission is to end the illegal and unsustainable wildlife trade by reducing demand through public awareness campaigns and providing comprehensive marine protection. |
Shark Alliance Member Groups by Region:
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Latin America & Caribbean
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