Five species of sharks and two species of manta rays will now be subject to international trade regulation under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES, a move that could save these threatened species from total collapse. Read more

A common argument against regulating threatened shark species in trade is that enforcement is impossible because agents can’t identify whether fins are from endangered or non-endangered species. Pew took on that challenge. Together with the help of several scientists, they demonstrated that it is not only possible, but relatively easy to visually identify shark fins. Read more