Eleonora de Sabata won an award for the Mermaid’s Purse Project from the Dutch Shark Society at the 2014 European Elasmobranch Association meeting. In this interview she explains what her project is all about and why it is so important to her.
Eleonora has discovered underwater treasure in the Gulf of Naples: a special reef where secretive nursehound sharks lay hundreds of eggs! She and her colleagues keep an eye on the precious embryos with monthly dives to monitor them.