{"id":1905,"date":"2024-10-07T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2024-09-27T13:32:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T17:32:54","slug":"latest-research-demonstrates-importance-of-sharks-to-our-oceans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/latest-research-demonstrates-importance-of-sharks-to-our-oceans\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Research Demonstrates Importance of Sharks to Our Oceans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wherever there are oceans, there are sharks. They occupy waters from the poles\u00a0 to the equator, from miles deep to the oceans\u2019 surface, from mid-oceans to knee-deep waters along the shorelines. Wherever they exist, though, they serve many invaluable ecological functions.\u00a0 However, since 1970 the global populations of sharks and rays have declined by 70 percent.\u00a0 A newly published study shows why that is such an urgent problem and why nations must rethink where and how to conserve sharks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oceans without sharks would be far less healthy \u2013 new research<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/oceans-without-sharks-would-be-far-less-healthy-new-research-231783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/oceans-without-sharks-would-be-far-less-healthy-new-research-231783<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781421443645\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wherever there are oceans, there are sharks. They occupy waters from the poles\u00a0 to the equator, from miles deep to the oceans\u2019 surface, from mid-oceans to knee-deep waters along the shorelines. Wherever they exist, though, they serve many invaluable ecological functions.\u00a0 However, since 1970 the global populations of sharks and rays have declined by 70&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/latest-research-demonstrates-importance-of-sharks-to-our-oceans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Latest Research Demonstrates Importance of Sharks to Our Oceans&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,53,60,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global","category-science-technology","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}