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At the 19th CITES Conference of the Parties in Panama City, member states adopt stricter measures on the trade of 54 requiem and hammerhead shark species.
2022-11-25

According to a study from "Scientific Reports", the Otodus megalodon was the largest shark to swim in Earth's oceans. Its body size was 15 meters (50 feet).
2020-10-5

In the second case in a week in Australia, a surfing teenage boy is killed by a shark near Grafton, New South Wales.
2020-07-11

A shark kills a man in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, the state's first such fatality since 1936.
2018-09-15

At CITES meeting in Thailand, participating nations vote in effect various restrictions on the trade of critically endangered hardwood trees.
2013-03-12

An environmental study finds that 100 million sharks are killed by fishermen each year.
2013-03-1

The "Waddenvereniging" in the Netherlands expects the human-friendly starry smooth-hound shark to return to the Wadden Sea in a few years, after specimina were marked in the Oosterschelde and in another Zeeland part of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta.
2012-08-23

Egypt calls in international shark experts following recent attacks, one fatal, on tourists in Sharm el-Sheikh in the past week.
2010-12-6

Proposed international trade bans on polar bears and bluefin tuna are rejected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
2010-03-18