GEERG - The Greenland Shark and Elasmobranch Education and Research Group

The Greenland Shark and Elasmobranch Education and Research Group is a not-for-profit organisation that requires financial assistance from corporations and private citizens to conduct field operations.

Over the next three years, GEERG researchers will conduct the most extensive shark distribution project ever undertaken in the St. Lawrence. In order to accomplish this task over such a large area, the GEERG team must secure funding to cover costs associated with travel, accomodations and transportation. No salaries are paid. All work conducted by GEERG scientists and assistants is done on a volunteer basis.

GEERG projects have no commercial applications and are thus not eligible for most types of official funding. We only conduct research projects that focus on science, discovery, education and conservation. The results of all of our work are shared freely with the science community and the public at large.

$25,000 worth of high-tech telemetry tags and receivers have already been secured for our 2010 research season. We are now in the process of acquiring a vessel that will carry the GEERG team to various dive sites as well as enable us to service the receivers that will be moored at various locations and accessible only by boat. Further funding is required to enable us to refit our work boat as well as acquiring an ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) and a side scan sonar. We believe that this expensive equipment is the key to revealing the secret life of the Greenland shark. Only when we know more about its numbers, its feeding behaviour, its mating habits and its overall distribution will we be in a position to determine how and where the Greenland shark is treatened by human activity. Only then will we be in a position to make sound scientific recommendations to ensure the sustainable coexistence of humans and sharks in the St. Lawrence.

Several corporations and institutions have become GEERG affiliates over the years. Their support and generous contributions have enabled us to conduct ground-breaking research on the Greenland shark. However, the scope of our research projects and the immense territory we cover now require the acquisition and use of more expensive equipment and services, and we need your help.

Please contribute to GEERG and help us study the unknown and elusive Greenland shark.

DONATE BY CHEQUE
If you would like to contribute to our cause, please make a PayPal donation below or mail us a cheque at the following address.

Canadian donations are processed by GEERG, which is presently registered as a not-for-profit corporation in Quebec. Our federal incorporation is currently being processed and we will also obtain charity status sometime in 2010. If you wish to receive a tax credit on your donation, please postdate your cheque to January 1, 2010 or later, and we will issue a tax credit before the end of the year.

U.S. donations are also processed by GEERG. However, U.S. tax receipts are issued by our U.S. affiliate, the Shark Research Institute (SRI) a non-profit 501(c)(3) scientific research organization. Your donation is 100% deductible from your US Federal income taxes. SRI will send you an official charitable tax receipt by email to avoid administrative and mailing costs. This ensures that 100% of your donation will go towards GEERG shark research projects.

For every donation of $25* or more, we will mail you a copy of Jean-Louis Courteau's "Stop the Killing," which is available exclusively from GEERG (See below).

* Canada & U.S. only. Other countries $35.

CANADA DONATIONS (PAYPAL)
Canadian donations are processed by GEERG, which is presently registered as a not-for-profit corporation in Quebec. Our federal incorporation is currently being processed and we will also obtain charity status sometime in 2010. If you wish to receive a tax credit on your donation, please postdate your cheque to January 1, 2010 or later, and we will issue a tax credit before the end of the year.

For every donation of $25* or more, we will mail you a copy of Jean-Louis Courteau's "Stop the Killing," which is available exclusively from GEERG (See below).

* Canada & U.S. only. Other countries $35.

U.S. DONATIONS (PAYPAL)
U.S. tax receipts are issued by our U.S. affiliate, the Shark Research Institute (SRI) a non-profit 501(c)(3) scientific research organization. Your donation is 100% deductible from your US Federal income taxes. SRI will send you an official charitable tax receipt by email to avoid administrative and mailing costs. This ensures that 100% of your donation will go towards GEERG shark research projects.

For every donation of $25* or more, we will mail you a copy of Jean-Louis Courteau's "Stop the Killing," which is available exclusively from GEERG (See below).

* Canada & U.S. only. Other countries $35.


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