Two new books about sharks reveal how and why we should conserve them

Paul de Gelder's Shark and David Shiffman's Why Sharks Matter purpose to crook the all-too-common nationalist panic astir the predator into involvement successful their conservation

Humans 7 September 2022

By Elle Hunt

A bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) swimming successful the Pacific Ocean

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Shark, Paul de Gelder (HarperCollins) and Why Sharks Matter, David Shiffman (Johns Hopkins University Press)

BY FEBRUARY 2009, Paul de Gelder had spent thousands of hours successful the h2o arsenic portion of his occupation arsenic a diver successful the Australian Navy.

Early 1 morning, helium was conducting a counterterrorism trial, swimming solo astir Sydney Harbour, erstwhile helium was attacked by a 3-metre-long shark. The food slammed into him with its jaws, pinning de Gelder’s close manus to his leg. He recalls …