The Weekly Anthropocene, March 22 2023
Shark reintroduction in Indonesia, shark surveyors in the Bahamas, new national parks, 81% clean electricity by 2030, and more!
Indonesia
A new global partnership called “ReShark,” comprised of over 60 aquariums, conservation groups, and government agencies, is beginning an unprecedented mass reintroduction of captive-bred zebra sharks into the wild. (The zebra shark is an endangered species, and sharks worldwide are one of the most threatened groups of vertebrates: one paper found that the global abundance of oceanic sharks and rays has declined by 71% since 1970).
Indonesia’s Raja Ampat Archipelago lost much of its zebra shark population by the 1990s due to decades of overfishing, but is now home to a network of nine marine protected areas, providing ample safe habitat. ReShark is planning to reintroduce 500 captive-bred zebra sharks from their aquarium members into different Raja Ampat locations, and is already planning to expand the model to other species, po…
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