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Media Coverage on the Global Conservation Status of Sharks and Rays

​Watch and listen

http://www.npr.org/2014/01/22/264579513/ancient-and-vulnerable-25-percent-of-sharks-and-rays-risk-extinction
Sonja Fordham IUCN SSG Deputy Chair on NPR

http://globalnews.ca/news/1101478/quarter-of-the-worlds-sharks-rays-face-extinction-due-to-fin-soup-study/
Nick Dulvy on Global News 

http://www.slate.com/articles/video/video/2014/01/sharks_and_rays_extinct_1_in_4_could_threatened_by_shark_fin_soup_and_other_1.html

Lost at Sea
Nick Dulvy interview with the Naked Scientist
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/interviews/interview/1000590/




Global

A quarter of shark and ray species are in trouble
Daniel Cressey, Nature News

Nature | Seven days: 17–23 January 2014

One-Quarter of Sharks and Rays at Risk of Extinction
Denise Chow, Live Science

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140122202304.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fmarine_biology+%28Marine+Biology+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

USA & Canada
30 Percent of Sharks, Rays and Related Species at Risk of Extinction
John R. Platt Scientific American

New Study: 1 in 4 Sharks and Rays Threatened With Extinction
Angie McPherson, National Geographic

http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2014/01/22/sharks-and-rays-extinction-of-some-species-is-possible/

http://www.thecanadiandaily.ca/2014/01/21/study-says-sharksrays-globally-overfished/

http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/r14/Science/2014/0123/A-quarter-of-the-world-s-sharks-and-rays-now-threatened-with-extinction-say-scientists

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20140123/quarter-worlds-sharks-and-rays-now-threatened-extinction-say-scientists#.UuHDYJC_rPw.twitter

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-21/extinction-threatens-1-4-of-sharks-and-rays-on-red-list.html
http://www.npr.org/2014/01/22/264579513/ancient-and-vulnerable-25-percent-of-sharks-and-rays-risk-extinction

http://www.weather.com/news/science/nature/sharks-rays-extinction-risk-20140122

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/deadliest-catch-overfishing-pushes-quarter-sharks-rays-extinction-2D11968034

http://natmonitor.com/2014/01/21/new-report-says-a-quarter-of-shark-and-ray-species-face-extinction/

http://www.hngn.com/articles/22556/20140121/one-quarter-of-sharks-and-rays-could-be-gone-within-decades.htm

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/01/21/one-quarter-sharks-and-rays-at-risk-extinction/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fscitech+%28Internal+-+SciTech+-+Mixed%29

http://phys.org/news/2014-01-sharksrays-globally-overfished.html

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-01-21/extinction-threatens-quarter-of-sharks-and-rays-on-red-list

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/one-four-shark-ray-species-brink-extinction-1433294

http://esciencenews.com/sources/live.science/2014/01/21/one.quarter.sharks.and.rays.risk.extinction

http://www.burnabynow.com/news/food-choices-linked-to-declining-shark-populations-1.799379

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2014/01/23/study.says.sharksrays.globally.overfished

http://www.fish2fork.com/en/news-index/2014/Overfishing-blamed-for-steep-decline-of-sharks-and-rays.aspx

http://www.universityherald.com/articles/7021/20140123/shark-and-ray-conservation-efforts-on-the-rise-as-one-quarter-global-population-close-to-extinction.htm

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/national_world/2014/01/26/study-about-24-of-sharks-rays-face-extinction-threat.html

http://www.boulderweekly.com/article-12299-study-finds-one-in-f.html

http://www.defendersblog.org/2014/01/25-shark-ray-species-threatened-extinction/

http://inagist.com/all/425751654152273920/

http://blogs.dickinson.edu/writingsciencenewssp14/2014/01/30/rays-and-sharks-futures-look-dark/

http://www.xray-mag.com/content/one-quarter-sharks-and-rays-face-extinction

http://www.sportdiver.com/article/padi-news/rays-danger?src=SOC&dom=tw

http://natmonitor.com/2014/01/23/conservationists-scramble-to-halt-extinction-of-sharks-rays/

http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0228-devitt-shark-bake.html

http://www.treehugger.com/ocean-conservation/sharks-and-rays-big-trouble-1-4-cartilaginous-fish-facing-extinction-near-future.html

http://rjd.miami.edu/conservation/comprehensive-review-of-iucn-shark-and-ray-extinction-risk-factors-increasing-risk-under-management-of-fisheries-and-shortcomings-in-current-conservation-activities

UK
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/nov/10/conservation-fishing

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1084572/Quarter-Atlantic-sharks-rays-face-extinction-overfishing-say-scientists.html

http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/5727/20140121/iucn-group-25-sharks-rays-threatened-extinction.htm

France
http://frenchtribune.com/teneur/1421640-action-needed-conserve-sharks-and-rays

Italy
http://www.ansa.it/mare/notizie/rubriche/ambienteepesca/2014/01/23/Oltre-70-specie-squali-rischio-colpa-pesca-_9950350.html

http://www.greenreport.it/news/aree-protette-e-biodiversita/squali-estinzione/

Croatia
http://dalje.com/en-world/study--overfishing-threatens-a-quarter-of-the-worlds-sharks-and-rays/496970

Portugal / Spain
http://www.publico.pt/ecosfera/noticia/um-quarto-dos-tubaroes-raias-e-quimeras-esta-ameacado-de-extincao-1620677

http://www.europapress.es/asturianu/noticia-cuartu-tiburones-les-rayes-mundu-tan-amenazaes-destincion-uicn-20140121162212.html

Australia & New Zealand

Seafood guide says five of top 11 species 'unsustainably managed' The Guardian UK

Comment: Scientists focusing on the wrong sharks in the wrong places
http://theconversation.com/sharks-and-rays-threatened-worldwide-overfishing-to-blame-22186

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1401/S00269/a-quarter-of-sharks-and-rays-threatened-with-extinction.htm

http://www.nerpmarine.edu.au/news/sharks-global-vision-local-action

Indonesia
One quarter of sharks and rays threatened with extinction
Read more at http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0122-lbell-endangered-sharks-and-rays.html#xX6EXTTUqyrfcVGU.99

India
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/environment/pollution/25-of-sharks-and-rays-at-high-risk-of-extinction/articleshow/29199063.cms

Iran
http://tehrantimes.com/science/113630-deadliest-catch-overfishing-pushes-quarter-of-sharks-rays-to-extinction

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