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Research:

• The Cefas Basking Shark research project
• Basking Shark Population Assessment. Final Project Report
• Dr. Sims’ articles published in Nature (PDF's) 
• Scirus is a science-specific search engine. View search results for Basking Sharks
   

Conservation:

• IUCN, 2003. 2003 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. [On-line] International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN).
• The WiSe Scheme: Training and accreditation for operators of registered passenger and charter vessels who wish to view marine wildlife.
• Sealife Signpost provides guidance on schemes that you can join and on where to send your sightings of marine species.
• Manx Basking Shark Watch
• The Marine Conservation Society Basking Shark Watch
• The Wildlife Trusts

• Elemental Tours - WiSe accredited, sustainainable marine wildlife watching tours.
• Marine Discovery Penzance - WiSe accredited wildlife watching.

• The ReefQuest Centre for Shark Research Basking Shark pages, this site contains a great deal of information on not only Basking Sharks but also a great deal of other elasmobranches too.
• Florida Museum of Natural History Basking Shark pages.
• MarineBio.Org’s Basking Shark Pages
• BBC The Bizarre Basking Shark

• Photograph of a Basking Shark breaching 
• Basking Shark article on the Earth & Sky Radio Show  
• Shark-Soup Boom Spurs Conservationist DNA Study; Bijal P Trivedi, Sept 17th 2002
• Basking Sharks in the News

 

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