After traveling thousands of miles from the beautiful island paradise of Malapascua in the Philippines, I am now in Johannesburg, South Africa, to tell the stories about how thresher sharks are valuable not just to our oceans, but to our community as well.

Photo above from SMU Reef Alert page.

In December 2015, the Thresher Shark Research & Conservation Project (TSRCP) worked with Divelink for thresher shark research and aiding the locals with disaster risk reduction management planning.