Founded in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2003, the Save Our Seas Foundation (SOSF) is a philanthropic organisation that aims to protect and care for the world’s oceans. Its support for research, conservation and education projects worldwide focuses primarily on endangered species of sharks, rays and skates,as well as their habitats. Three permanent SOSF research and education centres reinforce its action in the Seychelles, South Africa and the USA. Over the past 17 years, the SOSF has supported some 300 projects worldwide, passionately upholding the founder’s pledge to protect the populations of sharks, rays and skates whose presence is essential to the health and biological diversity of our seas.