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Sharks, many of which migrate across international boundaries, are among the world's oldest species of animals. Their biological and ecological characteristics make them particularly vulnerable to overexploitation.
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PARIS - The Maldives will make its territorial waters into a shark sanctuary, a government official said Tuesday, lending momentum to efforts to protect the fish at a United Nations endangered species conference that begins this week.
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The cabinet in its meeting today has decided to ban trade and export of sharks and shark products. The ban will come into effect on 1 July 2010. Today’s cabinet meeting was chaired by Vice President Dr Mohamed Waheed.
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The animated film Shark Tale from a few years ago featured a "car wash" for dirty marine dwellers. Now a new study in the journal Marine & Freshwater Research documents something very similar: fish cleaning stations for sharks and manta rays.
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In what could be the ultimate marine smack-down, great white sharks off the California coast may be migrating 1,600 miles west to do battle with creatures that rival their star power: giant squids.
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Hunted, maimed and chased, the whale shark is vulnerable to extinction. An effort by the Maldivian government, with a bit of help from British and Maldivian students, is trying to change that.
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This week, environmental groups hailed as a major victory news that the United States has come out in support of protecting endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna under Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
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Hollywood and the media's depiction of sharks over the past decades has made people turn away when the topic of shark extinction is broached. General fear and apathy for one of the most important creatures on earth continues to create rooting sections for a blood-starved public appetite that would like to see 'those dangerous creatures' annihilated.
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News this week that the United States had come out in support of giving endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna protection under Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) was hailed as a major victory by environmental groups.
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Remember those great white sharks that swam so close to shore last summer officials closed some Cape Cod beaches?
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