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  Books:  

 
 Weblinks:  

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

Basking Shark Information Pages:

• 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 

Basking Sharks in the Media:

• 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