Kenya: Are We Seeing the Last of the Whale Sharks?

Volker Bassen saw his first whale shark in 1991, while diving off Kinondo reef along Kenya's famed Diani beach; a sight that would stay with him for years and come 2005, would inspire him to introduce whale shark diving in Kenya.

That's when many Kenyans became aware of the gigantic fish reaching lengths of 18 metres so close to home.But now, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has changed the listing of the whale shark from "threatened" to "endangered."

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