Saving endangered leopard sharks in Indonesia’s Raja Ampat archipelago

Leopard sharks were erstwhile abundant successful the waters of Indonesia’s Raja Ampat archipelago.

However, commercialized sportfishing and the lucrative shark commercialized person astir wiped retired the population, leaving lone 20 adults successful these pristine waters. Now, marine biologists are starring a unsocial task to rewild leopard sharks. Pup sharks are cautiously raised successful captivity, taught however to hunt and intimately monitored earlier being released into their autochthonal waters.

101 East meets the conservationists successful Raja Ampat determined to bring leopard sharks backmost from the brink of extinction.