Our Mission:
Saving Endangered Sharks from Overfishing and the Shark Fin Trade, and Protecting Critical Marine Habitat.
1/3 of all sharks and rays are threatened with extinction, and with their loss the important ocean ecosystems humans rely on for our own health are at risk.
Why Save Sharks?
Sharks keep the oceans healthy. We rely on the oceans for over half our oxygen, and the oceans are a major carbon sink. Saving sharks can keep us breathing, balance ecosystems and mitigate the impacts caused by climate change.
Save a Shark, Protect the Ocean
Shark Stewards is an international non-profit dedicated to saving sharks and ocean habitat. For over 18 years, our work has saved millions of sharks by introducing shark fin trade bans, regulating fisheries and supporting marine protected areas.
Join Our Team and Save Sharks!
We are shark activists and rely on your passion and talent to advocate, educate and take action.
Help Protect Critically Endangered Sharks
Support sharks and their habitat directly by connecting to sharks we observe, and supports marine protected areas. Get a Shark Buddy Certificate! Your $100 donation goes to data collection & monitoring supporting increased protection for mobula rays, sharks and their habitat.
Shark Buddies
Keep Sharks Swimming
Sharks are being overfished globally, killed as bycatch or for their fins to make shark fin soup. The shark fin trade contributes to plummeting shark populations across the world. But the problem is deeper than this.
TAKE ACTION TO SAVE SHARKS FROM EXTINCTION
Hope for the Soupfin Shark: CITES Protection and the Fight Ahead
For far too long, the soupfin shark has faced a relentless onslaught of threats, pushing its global populations to the brink. At the latest Conference of the Parties to CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora), soupfin sharks achieved international protection from trade.
Protecting Our Living Laboratory: Why Duxbury Reef Needs SMR Status
Currently, Duxbury Reef is designated as a State Marine Conservation Area (SMCA). While this offers some protection, it allows for the “limited take” of finfish and abalone. Unfortunately, this “limited” status has created a loophole of confusion and ecological degradation. Working alongside the Environmental Action Committee of West Marin (EAC), we are calling for…
Federal Court Supports ESA Protection
A federal court struck down Trump’s attacks against the Endangered Species Act (ESA), restoring key values of this essential environmental law to the status it held for decades before the first Trump administration attacked the ESA.
