Mission statement

Directed by Dr. Neil Hammerschlag, the Shark Research & Conservation Program (SRC) at the University of Miami conducts cutting-edge shark research while also inspiring scientific literacy and environmental ethic in youth through unique hands-on field research experiences.

www.sharktagging.com

In the ten years of its existence, The Shark Conservation Society (SCS) has achieved some remarkable results in the areas of shark conservation and awareness. The society concentrates on running research and filming expeditions to areas of the world where little or no shark work has been done. Made up entirely of volunteers, the society has run twelve expeditions since 2003. Many of the volunteers have been on several expeditions and the SCS is now able to deploy fully trained teams into the field. Its work in the Gulf resulted in the discovery of species new to the area and ground breaking conservation legislation. In the waters off Cornwall’s coast, they shot the first free swimming footage of Porbeagle Sharks anywhere in the world. They’ve assisted in the Mediterranean with White Shark protective legislation and the collection of Blue Shark data. The Society has helped with the production of some significant conservation films including: Porbeagles in Peril, The Search for White Sharks in the Mediterranean, Sharks in British Seas, and Shark Attack Britain. Their mission statement reads: The Shark Conservation Society seeks to further conservation through research expeditions and campaigns, based on fact and practical experience, and to promote best practice when interaction with sharks is necessary.

http://www.sharkconservationsociety.com/

AILERONS, the Association Ichtyologique pour L’Etude la Recherche et l’Observation dans la Nature des Sélaciens, is a French NGO founded in 2006 by the marine biologist and member of the Mediterranean Shark Research Group, Nicolas Ziani. AILERONS aims to study rays and sharks for the benefit of their conservation and educate people about the importance and urgency of global shark conservation. The primary area of their work is the French Mediterranean. 

http://asso-ailerons.fr/

Oceana is the largest international organisation focused solely on ocean conservation. Our offices in the Americas and Europe work together on a number of strategic campaigns to achieve measurable outcomes that will help return our oceans to former levels of abundance.

http://www.oceana.org/

The Dyer Island Conservation Trust was founded in 2006 by Wilfred Chivell, delivering unique conservation and research programmes in the fragile and critically important marine eco-system in the Greater Dyer Island area.

http://www.dict.org.za/

The African Penguin & Seabird Sanctuary (APSS) is a Dyer Island Conservation Trust (DICT) project, which will serve as a custom-designed, world class, marine bird rehabilitation centre in the Overstrand area.  We will provide temporary care to diseased, displaced, injured, oiled and abandoned marine birds with special focus on the endangered African Penguin. Marine bird rescue, rehabilitation and release form part of a conservation management plan for African Penguin and other marine birds, to conserve and maintain populations. 

Through continued research, education and awareness programmes, we aim to mitigate human impacts on marine birds.