# Filling the Gaps to Protect Sharks in Angola with Ana Lúcia Furtado Soares Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/world-of-sharks-6884324/filling-the-gaps-to-protect-sharks-in-angola-with-ana-l-cia-furtado-soares Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/world-of-sharks-6884324/filling-the-gaps-to-protect-sharks-in-angola-with-ana-l-cia-furtado-soares.md Podcast: [World of Sharks](https://stenobird.com/podcast/world-of-sharks-6884324) Published: 2025-05-29T04:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://wholetoothpod.podbean.com/e/filling-the-gaps-to-protect-sharks-in-angola-with-ana-lucia-furtado-soares/ Audio file: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/2ggkibjif9e4h5ap/episode_79_full_edit_angola_elasmo_project8als2.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/world-of-sharks-6884324/episodes/filling-the-gaps-to-protect-sharks-in-angola-with-ana-l-cia-furtado-soares Duration seconds: 3194 ## Resource This week on the World of Sharks podcast we are meeting Ana Lúcia Furtado Soares, founder of the Angola Elasmo Project - a grassroots initiative focussed on the research and conservation of sharks and rays along the Angolan coast – to discuss the joys and challenges of building a project from scratch, working with data-poor fisheries and the importance of empowering local voices. Shownotes: www.saveourseas.com/worldofsharks/podcast You can follow the Angola Elasmo Project on Instagram (angola.elasmoproject) and find out more about the project here: https://saveourseas.com/project/documenting-shark-diversity-and-fisheries-in-angola/https://saveourseas.com/project/the-angola-elasmo-project/https://saveourseas.com/project-leader/ana-lucia-furtado-soares/ You can find out more about the Save Our Seas Foundation on instagram (@saveourseasfoundation), Facebook (Save Our Seas Foundation), Bluesky (@saveourseas.bsky.social) or by heading to www.saveourseas.com. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/world-of-sharks-6884324/episodes/filling-the-gaps-to-protect-sharks-in-angola-with-ana-l-cia-furtado-soares/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/world-of-sharks-6884324/filling-the-gaps-to-protect-sharks-in-angola-with-ana-l-cia-furtado-soares.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.