🦈 Open Call for Proposals! 📅 Submission deadline: March 15, 2025 📩 Reviewed by our scientific panel—responses by April 2025 🔗 Click this link to access the submission form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 📸 (2-4) Daniel Fernando #SI2026

OPEN CALL for Sharks International 2026 proposals for keynote speakers, themed sessions and panels, workshops, and side events 📢 🦈 Please submit proposals via: forms.gle/9EiKJVncMoa7... Deadline: 15th March 2025

Training day 3 afternoon: fins, skins and gill plates! Dried product ID theory & practice by @elasmoproject.bsky.social and Blue Resources Trust in action here in 🇱🇰. 30 attendees trained in ID of #CITES listed #sharks🦈 and rays ✔️ 👏 #sharkconservation #illegalwildlifetrade #OCPP #Cefas

Training day 3 morning: theory into practice with @elasmoproject.bsky.social and Blue Resources Trust at 4:30am in Negombo 🇱🇰- lots of mobulids and some #sharks 🦈 being ID’d by trainees #sharkconservation #illegalwildlifetrade #OCPP #Cefas

Training day 2 and it’s off to customs HQ here in Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 with @elasmoproject.bsky.social leading ID training in #CITES listed #sharks and rays. 30 attendees from customs, coastguard & govt. agencies all put through their paces with the theory before the practical tomorrow.. #sharkconservation

The 1st day of training in 🇱🇰 saw 20 attendees from 5 universities, govt. agencies & Blue Resources Trust learn about Productivity Susceptibility Analysis (PSA) as a data-limited assessment tool. I look forward to supervising and seeing this put into action in Neranjan’s MPhil 🦈under the #OCPP fund

The latest Cefas newsletter 👇features a blog of a visit to 🇬🇧 by our Sri Lankan partners working together to conserve #sharks 🦈 and rays through the #OCPP I’ve just arrived in 🇱🇰 to continue this collaboration…stay tuned to hear more about this week’s training content.govdelivery.com/accounts/UKC...