Healthy oceans need sharks.
Without them, ecosystems face possible collapse. Despite having lived on Earth for approximately 450 million years, today they are the most threatened group of marine animals in the world.
Did you know that 37% of shark and ray species currently face extinction? AMCS and HSI won’t let that happen and we need your help.
Together, we’re creating a powerful collective of Shark Champions to turn the tide for sharks in Australia. If you love marine life and want to take direct action to help save it, you’re in the right place.
Issues facing sharks and rays.
More than one third of the world’s sharks and rays have been put at serious risk of extinction over the last 100 years due to lethal threats from humans.
Fishing, culling programs, habitat loss and warming oceans are all contributing to harming this keystone species.
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Culling
Altered habitats
Threatened Species
Who we are.
The Australian Marine Conservation Society and Humane Society International are two of the leading and most effective organisations working on shark and ray protection in Australia.
By joining forces, we’re achieving more for our oceans and these precious animals.
In just the past five years we’ve achieved so much, here’s some our biggest outcomes.
We’re over 60,000 Shark Champions strong, speaking out for sharks, and we want you to join us!
Securing protection for endangered hammerheads as ‘no-take’ species in Queensland waters, saving up to 37,500 being fished per year.
Giving critically endangered sawfish a fighting chance at recovery, by securing the removal of gillnets from the Great Barrier Reef by 2027.
Securing a nationwide approach to stop illegal live shark finning in Australia.
Removing 12 of 19 species from Queensland Government’s shark culling ‘Target List’.
Securing trials of non-lethal solutions for shark bite mitigation across Queensland beaches.
Making it illegal to cull sharks in the Great Barrier Reef.
Become a Shark Champion today.
Join us and over 60,000 Shark Champions in tackling the issues sharks and rays are currently facing in Australian waters. Be a voice for precious marine life by calling on our elected leaders to give our endangered sharks and rays the protections they desperately need.
When it comes to sharks, we are their biggest threat but also their only hope. Become a Shark Champion today.
