Since 2001, the Wildlife Trust of India has educated fishing communities about whale sharks, once hunted for oil and meat. Fishers are trained in safe disentanglement and provided compensation for damaged nets. More than a thousand whale sharks have been freed from entanglements off India’s west coast.
(c) Jeremiah del Mar

Pescadores en la India se forman para salvar tiburones ballena

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Desde 2001, el Wildlife Trust of India colabora con comunidades pesqueras para proteger al tiburón ballena. Antaño cazados, estos gigantes son rescatados hoy por pescadores formados en liberación segura. Más de mil ejemplares han sido liberados en la costa oeste de India, recibiendo los pescadores compensación por sus redes.

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