The exhibition, which is part of a nationwide awareness campaign, seeks to contextualize the threats suffered by the marine environment and explain the conservation projects that are being developed to protect it.

The exhibition, which is part of a nationwide awareness campaign, seeks to contextualize the threats suffered by the marine environment and explain the conservation projects that are being developed to protect it.

The director of the Biodiversity Foundation, Ana Leiva, participated on Wednesday, July 27, in the opening ceremony of the exhibition “In favor of sharks, a sea of hope”, produced by the Foundation for the Conservation and Recovery of marine animals (CRAM), with the support of the Biodiversity Foundation, at the Royal Botanical Garden-CSIC in Madrid.

Promoting citizen commitment to the preservation of the marine environment and motivating environmentally responsible attitudes is the objective of the traveling exhibition “In favor of sharks, a sea of hope”, mounted on an easily understandable graphic and textual support. It is a global approach to the current situation of elasmobranchs, allowing the visitor to obtain sufficient information on the problem and the positive actions to be taken.

The exhibition, which will be open to the public until August 31 at the Royal Botanical Garden-CSIC in Madrid, includes models and photographs of different species of sharks (elasmobranchs), which are life-size and with them the challenge of changing the public’s perception of these animals is posed: sharks are not only predators, they also suffer from the fragility of marine biodiversity.

It addresses issues such as the vulnerability of the species, the ‘predator or victim’ paradox, the threats faced by its individuals (such as habitat loss, marine pollution and overfishing, among others), the fight against its extinction and the specific conservation actions that are already being carried out.

The exhibition is aimed at all types of audiences, from people who already have a certain knowledge of the thematic content to citizens who are looking at it for the first time. After this stopover, the exhibition can be visited at the Marine Animal Recovery Centre of the CRAM Foundation in Prat del Llobregat, Barcelona.

More information at www.unmardeesperanza.org.