"Pop culture has not helped the plight of sharks. While movies like Jaws and Open Water cast them as bloodthirsty monsters, Jabado, 38, tries to educate people about sharks’ vital role in ocean ecology. Oceana’s landmark 2008 study, Predators as Prey: Why Healthy Oceans Need Sharks, revealed how apex predators like sharks maintain a crucial balance in marine ecosystems by limiting their prey populations, which do the same for species below them in the food chain, and how emptying oceans of their populations “can have unpredictable and devastating consequences.”" Full article here.
"Pop culture has not helped the plight of sharks. While movies like Jaws and Open Water cast them as bloodthirsty monsters, Jabado, 38, tries to educate people about sharks’ vital role in ocean ecology. Oceana’s landmark 2008 study, Predators as Prey: Why Healthy Oceans Need Sharks, revealed how apex predators like sharks maintain a crucial balance in marine ecosystems by limiting their prey populations, which do the same for species below them in the food chain, and how emptying oceans of their populations “can have unpredictable and devastating consequences.”" Full article here.
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