Peter Gausmann

Grey-headed Flying-foxes:

Pollinates native trees ✅
Seed dispersers ✅
Keystone species ✅
Helps regenerate forests ✅
Takes exceptional band photos ✅✅

#bats #🦇 #australianwildlife #flyingfox

Last call! Our next Important Shark and Ray Areas workshop will focus on the North American and Caribbean Atlantic and North American Pacific. Preliminary areas of interest must be submitted to submissions@sharkrayareas.org by February 6th.

Spread the word to interested colleagues!

Not the news that some people want to be spreaded I think....😔😢😢😢

Trapped in Silence: The Last Two Captive Orcas in France Are Running Out of Time  - Earth Day France banned orca captivity, but two orcas remain trapped. With no sanctuary, they face neglect, abuse — and time is running out to save them.

I'm sorry, the information available in the media is quite old...

www.earthday.org/trapped-in-s...

I did not know this before! Thanks for improving my knowledge about marine life! 🙏🏻🌊🦀🦭

Shark Advocates International - The Ocean Foundation Shark Advocates International (SAI) is dedicated to conserving some of the ocean’s most vulnerable, valuable, and neglected animals – the sharks. With the benefit of nearly two decades of achievement ...

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Bending back the biodiversity loss curve of sharks and rays. The loss of sharks and rays to date has involved serial depletion of the largest, most evolutionary and functionally distinct species, and the increasing prevalence of smaller-bodied species that have benefited from release from predation.

New paper out today in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com by the #GlobalSharkTrends team: Bending back the curve of shark & ray biodiversity loss;
Read the paper here: rdcu.be/eZ9n9
@sfu.ca
@sfubiosciences.bsky.social
@earth2ocean.bsky.social

The Indian River Lagoon system was assessed to be a nursery of national significance for the bull shark which means that it is of special importance for the bull shark population in the western North Atlantic 🐂🦈💙

Flapper skates make a recovery in Scottish waters Research by Heriot-Watt University suggests that flapper skate numbers are on the increase.

Numbers of critically-endangered flapper skate are beginning to recover in Scotland, new research has suggested.
The study, conducted by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, involved interviews with commercial fishers from all over Scotland . www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.

They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

If Greenland is so important for the security of North America as proposed by everyone, the US can build a defense shield on Greenland with the permission of DK and GR. They also can build military bases and store weapons there (if both agree). The US don't need to possess Greenland.

NEW PAPER ALERT | Only One Percent of Important Shark and Ray Areas in the Western Indian Ocean Are Fully Protected From Fishing Pressure.

Read the full paper in Ecology and Evolution here: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

#shark #ray #chimaera #ISRA #publication #biodiversity #conservation

This is erroneous information! Ginglymostoma cirratum is restricted in distribution to waters of the western and eastern Atlantic Ocean 🌍🌊🦈 In the Indo-Pacific region, it is replaced by Nebrius ferrugineus (tawny nurse shark) 🦈😉

Shark scientists want their research to help save threatened species, but don’t know how. Our new paper can help. Sharks are some of the most threatened animals on Earth, and accordingly many scientists who study sharks want their research to be useful for conservation. However, most scientific training does n…

ICYMI:

Our new (in December) paper offers advice for early career scientists who want their research to help influence conservation and management policy. Lots of people say that they want to do this, but lack the policy training to do it meaningfully and usefully. Our paper can help!

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Even a shark species was named after this early explorer (Carcharias commersoni) but this name was not accepted (therefore, it remains a synonym of Carcharhinus melanopterus) 🦈🌊

When the year comes to an end it's usually the time to reflect the own achievements. Although I got only one manuscript published by myself, I've helped many other scientists to get their work published 📄🌿🦈 With 25 peer reviews, this year marks a new record of reviewing activities....🔎

#JFB: Drone observations reveal white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) dorsal fins are highly flexible and possible investigatory structures doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70210 #FishSci

Planning your trip to Sharks International 2026 in Sri Lanka? We’ve got you covered with estimated costs for your stay, from accommodation to local transport, meals, and visa fees (excluding flights).

🔗 si2026.org

I've smelt shark flesh from a Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) (which was incidentially caught as bycatch in cod fisheries) in Iceland 🇮🇸🦈 It was horrible...then they told me I should taste it because it's a popular snack there 😅😂😂😂🤢

Hey that sounds interesting! 🦈🇳🇮👍🏻 Please let me know If I can assist you with this (because I know a lot about this topic 😅)

Research goals of special concern for <i>Carcharhinus leucas</i> (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae) in Latin America – biological, distributional, and conservation priorities Abstract The bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) is a coastal predator that relies on low salinity...

Read more here: www.scielo.br/j/ni/a/bnsJz...

The plans of an interoceanic canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans were never really gone as the government of Nicaragua was negotiating with Chinese investors to realize these plans which would destroy a historical bull shark nursery of outstanding importance 🦈🇳🇮 @jlepler.bsky.social

In Germany, this invasive species is widely distributed in the largest river of Germany, the Rhine River, and most of its tributaries 🌊🦀 An amount of crabs get caught and sold to Chinese restaurants... 🇨🇳🥢😅

Leonard Joseph Victor Compagno (1943–2024): the greatest shark expert of the 20th century Published in African Journal of Marine Science (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2025)

Obituary for Leonard Joseph Victor Compagno 🦈🇿🇦 doi.org/10.2989/1814...

The restoration of the Indian River Lagoon system also secures a nursery of national significance for the bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) because it's one of the most important nursery areas for the western North Atlantic population of this species 🐂🦈💙🇺🇲

Our #FishOfTheWeek this week is… the Broadnose Sevengill Shark (Notorynchus cepedianus) 🐟

👇More #fishfacts and the latest #research featuring ASFB members:
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🌐 Info via Fishes of Australia: fishesofaustralia.net.au

#Australia #fish #biology

Me smiling and holding up a copy of my book.

Turns out it's pretty cool to see your own book in print! Marine Ecosystem-Based Management by Haugen & Link is out now 📘🐟🧪🌊🦑