What does SSG stand for?

Shark Specialist Group

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Species hunted on the high seas are particularly at risk, with more than half in danger of dying out, reported the Shark Specialist Group at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Third of open ocean sharks face extinction

But) despite mounting threats, sharks remain virtually unprotected on the high seas," said Sonja Fordham, deputy chair of the IUCN Shark Specialist Group and one of the editors of the report.

30 percent of world's sharks threatened with extinction

Third of open ocean sharks face extinction: study

The traditional view of oceanic sharks and rays as fast and powerful too often leads to a misperception that they are resilient to fishing pressure," Sonja Fordham, report co-author and deputy head of the IUCN's shark specialist group, said.

Swimming closer to extinction..

He is active in the field of elasmobranch (sharks and their kin) conservation and is a founding member and Vice Chairman of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources' (IUCN) Shark Specialist Group, the world's leading shark conservation organization.

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From angel sharks to devil rays, northeast Atlantic populations of these vulnerable species are in serious trouble, more so than in may other parts of the world," said Claudine Gibson, the report's lead-author and a former Programme Officer for the IUCN's Shark Specialist Group (SSG).

Atlantic sharks at risk due to over-fishing: study

Sharks are definitely at the top of the list for marine fishes that could go extinct in our lifetimes," said Julia Baum of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California and a member of IUCN shark specialist group.

Shark species face extinction amid overfishing and appetite for fins

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) development of the Shark Specialist Group is indicative of the increasing environmental awareness of sharks' crucial ecological role as apex predators and that they are being threatened by human activities.

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