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Randall Arauz, president of PRETOMA<\/a>,\u00a0a marine conservation and research organization working to protect ocean resources and promote sustainable fisheries policies in Costa Rica and Central America, spoke via Skype from Costa Rica\u00a0on Jan. 26 at Stetson\u00a0University College of Law in Gulfport, Florida. Arauz’s talk was the first of\u00a0three public lectures scheduled for the spring semester as part of the Edward and Bonnie Foreman Biodiversity Lecture series.<\/p>\n

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Randall Arauz delivered the biodiversity lecture at Stetson Law on Jan. 26.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Arauz outlined\u00a0a series of marine conservation efforts that he started in the 1990s and continues today. In 1999, Arauz shut down green turtle slaughter and successfully protected sea turtle nesting beaches in Costa Rica. After witnessing the horrors of shark finning,\u00a0Arauz launched a campaign in 2001\u00a0to end the practice. His work has had an impact on policies\u00a0on a\u00a0domestic, regional and global scale. Costa Rica, once the hub of the Eastern Pacific shark fin industry, became a shark conservation leader, although challenges to conservation\u00a0remain.<\/p>\n

In 2015, Arauz and his colleagues\u00a0uncovered the illegal export of hammerhead shark fins in a Costa Rican airport that resulted in bans by American Airlines and UPS on transporting shark fins.<\/p>\n

Arauz has been praised by world leaders for his shark conservation efforts. He was honored with the Whitley Fund for Nature Gold Medal in 2004, spoke at the United Nations, and received the Goldman\u00a0Environmental Prize in 2010.<\/p>\n

In February, he is\u00a0participating in\u00a0an international shark meeting in Costa Rica being held under the auspices of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals<\/a>\u00a0(CMS).<\/p>\n

According to a CMS fact sheet, “Sharks are highly vulnerable to overexploitation as they grow slowly, mature late and produce very few offspring. The rapid and largely unregulated increase in target fisheries and by-catch have depleted many populations of sharks and rays worldwide. It is estimated that 63 to 273 million sharks are killed per year.”<\/p>\n

“We’re here to change the situation for the sharks,” Arauz told the audience.<\/p>\n

Stetson’s next biodiversity lecture is scheduled for March 1 at 12 p.m. in the Great Hall on the Gulfport campus. Dr. Anne Meylan, senior research scientist in the Marine Turtle Research Program of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, will speak on seat turtle conservation efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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