In early December 2025, the CITES Conference of the Parties, made up of representatives from 184 countries, voted to initiate or expand protection against trade for many species. The votes included ...

Essential to marine ecosystems, sharks maintain the balance of the food web as apex predators, preventing any single species ...

New research shows that losing threatened requiem shark species could erase millions of years of tooth evolution and squeeze ...

Ocean depths hide sharks with extraordinary features. These creatures, from the Goblin shark's snout to the Thresher shark's ...

Over 800 marine species were newly discovered after two years of collaborative efforts by scientists, governments, museums and others participating in the Ocean Census, a global alliance founded to ...

In an unprecedented move, CITES has listed dozens of shark and ray species for protection, in hopes their populations can ...

Governments agreed to ban or restrict international trade in shark meat, fins and other products for more than 70 species ...

A global treaty has extended trade protections to more than 70 shark and ray species whose numbers are in sharp decline.

The world's top wildlife trade organization increased protections on Friday for more than 70 species of sharks and rays, in a move conservationists hailed as a "historical win." ...

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has enacted sweeping new trade protections for sharks and ...

If you ever come face-to-face with the wrong kind of shark, there's something you probably want to avoid. Just a hint: ...

Sloths, sharks, rays, and okapi gained stronger CITES protections at CoP20, with new Appendix I and II listings.