Since the 1980s, Caribbean reef shark populations have dropped 52 percent. In some places, their numbers have plummeted by as much as 99 percent, and since 2021 the sharks have been classified as ...

The return of apex predators such as sharks can restore critical ecological balance to coral reefs, creating healthier ecosystems. New research found a rise in the shark population on Ashmore Reef ...

“They are seeing more and more; they are seeing them in the back reef and in areas where they never saw sharks before.” This constitutes a striking recovery across various shark species after ...