Sanctuary

di Maren Solberg (Autore)

Maren Solberg, 2026

In 2009, one small island nation did something no country had ever done: it made its entire ocean a complete sanctuary for sharks. Sixteen more countries and territories followed. Sharks are slow-growing, late-maturing, and disappearing — taken for their fins, caught as bycatch, and losing the mangrove nurseries their young depend on. A shark sanctuary answers with a single, sweeping law: no commercial shark fishing, no trade in shark products, across a whole nation's waters. But is a sanctuary a real shield — or just a line on a map? Sanctuary takes you inside the world's shark sanctuaries and great marine reserves, from Palau to the Bahamas: how each one was won, how it is enforced, what lives there, what it proves — and where it honestly falls short. Inside you'll discover: Palau, 2009 — the world's first complete shark sanctuary, and the one-patrol-boat problem of guarding an ocean the size of France. The Marshall Islands — the largest sanctuary of its day, and the satellite-tag study that found suspected poachers breaking it. The Bahamas — the sanctuary that proved the money, where sharks and rays contributed more than a hundred million dollars to the economy in a single studied year (2014). French Polynesia and the Cook Islands — two neighbours who together closed some 2.6 million square miles to shark fishing. The Galapagos, Cocos, and Malpelo — oceanic refuges, hammerhead highways, and the swimway that connects them. Enforcement, honestly — patrol boats, port controls, satellite eyes, and why some sanctuaries are still paper parks. The playbook — how a sanctuary is won, funded, watched, and proved, and where the next forty places should be. Who this book is for: The diver who fell for sharks and wants to know where they are truly safe; the ocean reader who is tired of doom and suspicious of greenwash; the student, practitioner, or coastal citizen who wants the receipts — sizes, dates, laws, and enforcement — not the press release. Maren Solberg writes narrative marine conservation for general readers: place by place, law by law, shark by shark. Seventeen sanctuaries. More than nineteen million square kilometres of protected ocean. This is what saving sharks actually looks like — begin the tour in Palau.

• Autore: Maren Solberg
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Maren Solberg
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237086591