Category: IUCN Red List Updates

Curious about what shark species occur in South Africa?

17/4/2021

First SA Shark checklist – Published

A first ever dedicated checklist of South Africa’s chondrichthyan fauna provides a current list of all sharks, rays, skates and ghost sharks that occur in South African waters, their distribution and current IUCN Red List status.

Nearly one-third of sharks and rays are updated on IUCN Red List

10/12/2020

IUCN Shark Specialist Group nears the end of Global Shark Trends project..

A list of 422 shark, ray, and skate assessments that were published as part of the 2020-03 update is provided here: Excel | PDF. This includes many species from deep-sea, the Falklands, the Northeast Atlantic, the Southwest Atlantic, the North Pacific, the Southeast Pacific, and Southeast Asia. These assessments are an output of the SSG’s Global Shark Trends Project.

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Curious about what shark species occur in South Africa?

First SA Shark checklist – Published

Nearly one-third of sharks and rays are updated on IUCN Red List

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