That’s the bleak assessment of a team of researchers from Stellenbosch University‚ who presented their findings on Wednesday morning at a press conference in Cape Town.
Their findings are based on six years of fieldwork in the waters around Gansbaai‚ the de facto head of South Africa’s shark diving industry.
It is the largest great white research study undertaken in South Africa.
“The numbers in South Africa are extremely low‚” confirmed Sara Andreotti of the Stellenbosch University Department of Botany and Zoology.
“If the situation stays the same‚ South Africa’s great white sharks are heading for possible extinction‚” Andreotti said in a statement released at the media briefing.
