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#SobatHiuPari: Digital Campaign for Sharks and Rays Protection

When we hear of ‘sharks’ and ‘rays’, the first thing coming to our mind, much likely, is ‘predators’ or something big and frightening. Despite this, sharks and rays have been hunted for centuries in Indonesia. For example, small-scale fishers in South East Sulawesi have been catching these species using bamboo-made fishing rods. Sharks and rays are close relatives, comprising  the subclass Elasmobranchii, one key characteristic of which is their skeletons are made of cartilage, rather than bone. Of the approximately 1,250...