Hong Kong, which received roughly half of the world’s shark fin harvest last year, has seen a 30% drop in imports as a long-running environmental campaign begins to bite. Hong Kong Marine Productions ...

Photographs and interviews with dozens of Indonesian fishermen by the Environmental Justice Foundation, a UK based investigative NGO, and Mongabay have revealed that Dalian Ocean Fishing is using ...

The bust, in the port outside of Peru's capital, Lima, led to the arrest of three men tied to a transnational criminal network involved in illegal fishing and wildlife smuggling, according to the U.S.

After years of trying, Connecticut appears poised to join its neighbors in instituting a ban on a “cruel” practice that has contributed to decreasing numbers of sharks throughout the world. Shark ...

The U.S. House and Senate have passed identical bills that would ban the buying and selling of shark fins in the U.S. The action is part of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for ...

The sharks and rays are widely hunted, their parts used in commercial products like makeup and moisturizers and in culinary delicacies.

The worst part about using endangered species as “delicacies” is that the rarer the animal, the greater the perceived value of the delicacy. Effective conservation will require either a massive shift ...

The shark is only the second in history to be observed regrowing a dorsal fin. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A super-healing ...