Take 1 minute of your time to donate just $1 or more and you will be
helping to Support Our Sharks. Donate directly via
the PayPal link (or for tax deductible donations see below).
My name is Dr. Ryan Kempster, shark biologist and founder of Support Our
Sharks (SOS).
It is my goal to uphold the
mission of SOS to support healthy oceans by promoting better
protection for sharks and their close relatives the rays and skates.
Are you interested in making a tax-deductible donation to shark
research?
You can now make a
tax-deductible donation thanks to our partnership
with the University of Western Australia (UWA) Hackett Foundation. Simply go to the UWA
online giving page
– Fill out your details –
and select the option for your donation to go to 'A Specific Fund or
Appeal' and type
‘Shark
Outreach and Education’.
Your donations at work
$5 can help us to
produce online resources to raise awareness and inspire others to
help protect sharks.
$10 can help us to
produce important resources to share with schools and community
groups.
$25 can help us to
maintain our online citizen science website
SharkBase.
$50 can help our
scientists to provide free educational talks and events to schools
and community groups locally, and around the world via video link.
$100 can help us to
manage our research datasets and ensure they are made freely
available to scientists and the public worldwide.
$500 can help us to
recruit more citizen scientists worldwide and inspire them through
engaging activities and involvement in innovative online research
techniques.
$1000 can ensure that
our research in made widely available through open access journals
to allow scientists and the public direct access to our findings.
$5000 can buy and update
essential remote monitoring equipment and software to help our
scientists study shark behavior.
$10,000 can pay for an
entire research expedition to investigate shark abundance and
ecosystem health using non-extractive remote monitoring equipment.
Terms & Conditions
Support Our Sharks (SOS) is a project of
the non-profit Hackett Foundation at The University of Western
Australia (UWA). Therefore, at this stage any contributions
made to SOS, via PayPal, are NOT tax deductible. However, tax
deductible donations can be made separately through our partnership
with UWA.