We have good news to share: the National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS) has looked at our petition to have West Coast
great white sharks listed as an endangered species – a petition
44,000 of you backed – and has agreed to take it to the next
level! Having agreed that these sharks may qualify for
endangered status, NMFS will now spend the next nine months
researching the sharks and will announce their final decision in
June 2013. This is an important milestone, and we want to thank
you for helping make it happen. Those 44,000 signatures showed
that great whites have supporters across the country and that
people are paying attention to what happens off our shores.
We're so grateful for your help – and the sharks are too. Recent
scientific studies show that great white sharks off the coast of
California and Baja California, Mexico are genetically distinct
and isolated from all other great white shark populations and
that there are only a few hundred adult sharks remaining in this
population. The biggest threat