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32 Fishermen on Isla Mujeres Stopped Killing Sharks — and Saved 30,000
Eleven thousand sharks are killed globally every single hour. But on a tiny island off Cancun, 32 former shark fishermen put down their nets and picked up snorkels — building a sanctuary that has protected over 30,000 sharks and become a model the entire Caribbean is scrambling to replicate.