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Facts about the Great White Shark

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The most important thing you can do to help sharks is learn about the different sharks of the world, their habitats, and behaviors. Then learn how different human activities put them in jeopardy and which species of sharks are most threatened. By educating yourself on the issues, you can find effective ways to help. You can also help teach others about sharks and inspire them to get involved as well.

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Obviously a great place to start is by not consuming any shark meat. However, there are more products than just shark meat on the market. Shark cartilage and oils are found in a range of products from beauty items to health nutrition. So before consuming any product, make sure it does not use any shark materials. By boycotting shark products, you will reduce market demand, causing companies to stop killing sharks to make these products.

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Commercial fishing negatively impacts sharks in two ways. First, it reduces the populations of their food sources, especially sharks that rely on bony fish as their primary food source. Secondly, sharks are often killed as a byproduct of commercial fishing. Sharks are attracted to the movement of the trapped animals, and may try to feed on them, getting caught and strangling in the net. They may also be accidentally caught by fisherman looking for other seafood. So by simply reducing your consumption of seafood, you can reduce the number of sharks killed each year.

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One of the biggest threats to shark species is trash. With the massive plastic gyres and dumping, sharks often mistake garbage for food. Plastic is also consumed by the marine species that sharks eat. So sharks will eventually consume non-food products, leading to illness and death. So think about your impact on marine species when using products, so that they don’t end up causing irreparable damage to sharks species.

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5. Donate and Volunteer to Shark Conservation Organizations

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5. Donate and Volunteer to Shark Conservation Organizations

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There are hundreds of wonderful organizations that work tirelessly on shark conservation efforts. Shark conservation organizations fight to educate people, stop the slaughter of sharks, and write and support legislation that protects conservation zones. So if you have some spare time or money, you can donate to a shark conservation group.

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Letter writing is a great way to helps protect and preserve sharks. Writing a letter to your representative to tell them that shark conservation is important to you and that you would like them to introduce and support legislation that will list sharks as protected species, ban shark finning and fishing, and set up conservation areas in the oceans around your country can be a big help.

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Schools are a great resource to help encourage people to get active in a cause. From elementary schools to universities, you can help promote campaigns that raise awareness, collect donations, and support conservation efforts. Teachers and students love to get active in causes, so talking to your local educators is a great way to rally people to help save sharks.

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If you live near the oceans or are just on vacation, if you see someone abusing sharks, speak out. Whether they are poking and prodding them or illegally hunting them, tell the authorities what you’ve seen, Most beaches have protections for the local marine species, so if someone is mistreating a shark, you can help defend the shark by reporting the action.

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Shark diving is a great way to protect local shark species. Governments are much more likely to set up conservation zones when sharks bring tourism revenue to an area. There’s a variety of dives you can do for any skill level and interest. Whether you go cage diving with Great White Sharks or simply snorkeling with Nurse Sharks, shark tourism will help support local conservation efforts.

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Social media is a powerful tool to spread awareness about sharks and shark conservation. So the next time you read an interesting article or blog post about sharks, share it with your network. If you are looking for resources, to share with your friends check out some of the great articles on Shark Sider.

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There are a number of ways to help the sharks of the world from going extinct. By educating yourself and others, being a conscientious consumer, and speaking out for sharks, you can easily help promote shark conservation. So even though the problem is massive, there are some simple ways that we can all help.

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If we all make shark fin soup, sharks will become extinct.

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20 feet

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520 – 1,100 kg

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About 3500

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What Colour are Great White Sharks When They are Babies?

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What Colour are Great White Sharks When They are Babies?

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White

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As large and powerful predators, great white sharks play an important role at the top of the marine food chain. Despite its fame and reputation, little is actually known about the great white shark’s biology and behavior.

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Endangered Animal Species - Animals for Kids - Educational Video

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Land Reclamation

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No more fish for the big white shark to eat

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Because of land reclamation, Great White Sharks keep eating plastic and plastic bottles.

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Scientists made the remarkable discovery at Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, finding the remains of 15 to 20 different species of sharks deep in the cave.Among the multiple remains was the head of a great white shark which lived an incredible 330 million years ago.At the time, North America was covered by oceans. When they died, their remains were encased in sediment that eventually became the limestone where the cave formed.Paleontologist John-Paul Hodnett said: "I wasn't exactly sure what I was going to see in the cave during my trip.

"When we got to our target specimen my mind was blown.

"There's hardly ever any record at all of sharks teeth coming from these rocks.

"So that was exciting. So this is a brand new record of sharks from a particular layer of time."

When Mr Hodnett visited the cave, he had already suspected there would be a skeleton of the shark inside thanks to photos from colleagues.

But it turned out the discovery was actually a huge skull.

He added: "It turns out is actually not a skeleton, it is actually just parts of the head. And the head itself is pretty big."

Mr Hodnett said he could see the part of the shark's jaw where it would have attached to the skull and the end that would have been its chin.

Some of the middle of the jaw isn't visible, but he estimated that it would have been about 2.5 feet long.

Mr Hodnett continued: "It's super exciting, but not exactly the most easy thing to study.
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"Caves are a very special environment, so it's not ideal to be removing big chunks of rock out of it and damage the the internal environment by doing this."

Fossils of this kind are usually found in Europe, meaning the find in North America could shed new light on what is known about shark species.

Mr Hodnett said: "We literally just scratched the surface, and the sharks are just coming out from that scratch.

"So, hopefully, with more field work, we'll get another good batch of specimens to kind of help get at least some more rich diversity."
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However, the researcher admitted "it's going to be very hard to bring the appropriate equipment in there to properly excavate the specimen out of the cave".

The discovery was made in January this year at The Mammoth Cave National Park - the longest cave system known in the world.

In 1968, Indian mummies were found in the caves by researchers.

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Shark bombshell: 'Mind-blowing' discovery of 330 million-year-old great white

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Scientists made the remarkable discovery at Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, finding the remains of 15 to 20 different species of sharks deep in the cave.Among the multiple remains was the head of a great white shark which lived an incredible 330 million years ago.At the time, North America was covered by oceans.