Earn your wings and protect sharks
How can you save sharks? Here are the best ways to save sharks through building shark awareness and shark protection by working with a reputable shark conservation group like Shark Angels. It’s easy to get involved and make a real difference for the future of sharks. Because sharks need your help! From shark education and research and shark finning bans to protecting shark habitats and diving with sharks it’s easy for you to do something to protect sharks and also save the oceans.
1. Adopt a shark to save sharks
Proceeds from our shark adoptions fuel our shark conservation campaigns and make it possible to do our important work. You can adopt a shark virtually or get an adorable shark in the mail.
2. Go shark diving to protect sharks
Make sharks more valuable alive than dead! Shark tourism and ecotourism is an amazing way to support shark conservation. Join us on some incredible shark adventures.
3. Learn about worldwide shark laws
It’s not just about saving sharks – it’s about the oceans. Educate yourself on the laws that supposedly protect sharks.
4. Going plastic free
Sharks, as apex predators, face even more threat from pollution due to biomagnification. Change your habits and clean up your act. Eliminate single use plastics from your life. Avoid using plastic water bottles.
5. Schedule a presentation to build shark awareness
We love teaching others about sharks and helping them turn their passion into action. Request a virtual presentation for your classroom, dive club or your next event. Our topics range from Shark IQ to Shark Diving to Sharks, Sex & Wine with specific age appropriateness for each.
6. Keep sharks out of your cosmetics
The majority of Squalene and Squalane comes from shark liver oil. Never use any products (including makeup, wrinkle creams, lotions and deodorants) that contain Squalene unless it specifically states “100% plant-derived”, or “vegetable based” or “vegetable origins”.
7. Get smart! Be positive PR for sharks
We’ve launched our virtual Shark Angels U to bring the sharks to you, help you learn more about shark conservation, and teach others. Request a webinar or access to previous webinars.
8. Donate to shark conservation
Help raise funds to fuel the movement. Start your own fundraiser with your family and friends. Donate your birthday to save sharks or send a gift on behalf of a loved one and be featured on our tribute wall. Choose us as your charity while shopping on Amazon. Earn your wings and Become a Shark Angels monthly donor.
9. Volunteer to help with shark education
Want to make a difference and help us with ocean, marine and shark conservation? Volunteer and leave the world a better place than you found it. We are looking for all kinds of people with lots of different skills: writing, social media, graphic designers, videographers, students.
10. Sign up for our Monthly Chomp Newsletter
Learn about what shark scientists are doing out in the field, get the latest shark news and even get discounts on new gear all delivered straight into your inbox!
11. Read labels to save sharks
Know what you are buying. Often shark is relabeled as other types of fish, like rock salmon, included in fish patties like pollock, or hidden from consumers – as shark ingredients are not always labeled like chondroitin which can be made from shark cartilage or shagreen which is made from their skin.
12. Spend a fun afternoon with our shark activity book
Filled with shark games and activities that test your shark knowledge and will keep you and your kids entertained for hours. Topics include: shark anatomy, sharks food, shark reproduction, fun shark facts and more.
13. Stop shark finning
Help us stop the slaughter of over
150,000,000 sharks each year as a result of shark finning. Shark Angels was one of the founding members of #FinFree, an open source toolkit for local efforts to stop shark finning.
14. Sign a petition to save sharks
We need your help to ask Amazon to stop selling sharks in a bottle.
15. Make ocean friendly seafood choices
Many of the fish we enjoy are in trouble due to destructive fishing and farming practices. When you choose to buy sustainable seafood, you push suppliers to source more environmentally responsible products and encourage sustainable fishing, driving significant improvements throughout the industry. Ultimately, your choices have an impact on the health of the ocean. Learn where and how it was caught.