Since 2000, the National Lobster Hatchery in Padstow, Cornwall, has championed the European lobster by crafting creative ways to collaborate with locals to implement conservation efforts.
The activist and conservation champion plans to use the award money for critical tools to combat illegal fishing in the protected waters around Malpelo, Colombia.
Some shark populations have decreased by 70 percent. The oceanic whitetip shark experienced the greatest decline, losing 98 percent of their population in just 60 years.