"If we keep catching as many sharks, they will become extinct within 20 years. And if sharks were to go extinct it would devastate the entire marine ecosystem."
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00:00At the Aquarium of La Rochelle, they have a male Zebra shark, so they were looking for a female.
00:25And since we have a female, we were very happy to let her go
00:29to mate with the male.
00:45Zebra sharks live in the Indo-Pacific Ocean.
00:48They are tropical sharks.
00:50The three we currently have, which are adults, come from Malaysia.
00:53When it is born, it is zebra, black and white.
00:55That's why it's called the Zebra shark.
00:57It is very distinct, with well-defined stripes.
01:00And then, when it grows up, it starts to have spots, spots.
01:03And its coat changes completely around 2-3 years,
01:06where it becomes yellow with black spots.
01:08So now it looks like a leopard.
01:10It is a threatened species.
01:11It is vulnerable.
01:12It is its IUCN status, so for the protection of nature.
01:16It is a species that needs to be preserved.
01:20That's why we are lucky enough to be able to reproduce it at the Aquarium,
01:24which avoids taking samples in nature.
01:26Sharks are currently really threatened.
01:28There are people who think that if we continue to catch as many sharks,
01:32that is, 100 million sharks each year that are caught,
01:35well, we could see the sharks disappear in 20 years.
01:39So it's really urgent to react.
01:41Sharks are caught, they are slaughtered, you could say,
01:45for their fins, because it is a very profitable trade.
01:48The shark is a super predator.
01:50It is the one who regulates, let's say, the ecosystems.
01:53So it has a fundamental role.
01:55And if sharks were to disappear,
01:56it would be the entire marine ecosystem that would be disrupted.