Shark Girl. Nautical Videographer. Shark Conservationist + Activist. Filmmaker.
Madison Stewart, a.k.a. Shark Girl, also known to her close friends as “Pip or Pippy” (dad’s a pirate, mum’s a hippy), is no accidental ocean activist. In a way she was born to represent the ocean. From the early age of two, she and her family were living on a yacht sailing the waters of Australia’s Gold Coast and the Great Barrier Reef. At the 12 Madison became a certified Open Water diver in the sharky waters of Byron Bay at Julian Rocks, and at age 14 she had picked up an underwater camera for the first time. Then at 16 she decided to dedicate her life to the preservation and protection of sharks after learning a shark fishery inside the Great Barrier Reef could legally harvest 100,000 sharks a year, and has been working tirelessly as an activist ever since. She is probably one of a very few people who refer to sharks as “adorable, and credits Peter Benchley, his book and the Spielberg film “Jaws” for being an inspiration and reminder how important it is to make sure sharks are not seen as scary creatures or a threat to humans, but should be preserved and honored as one of the oldest and most important apex predators in the ocean eco-system. Stewart is also an Ocean Guardian in the Australian documentary “Blue.”, was featured in Rob Stewart’s “Sharkwater Extinction”, and at the age of 24, she was named Australian Geographic Society Young Conservationist of the Year for her anti-shark finning work. Her non profit, The Hooper Collective, aims to inflict change and shed light on laws exploiting sharks, change the human perception of them, and fight the trades decimating shark populations around the world, while improving the quality of life for humans at threat from these animals.
LEARN MORE ABOUT SHARK GIRL MADISON STEWART here:
Madison Stewart on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharkgirlmadison/
Follow Madison on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sharkgirlmadison/?hl=en
Check out her Website: https://www.thehoopercollective.org/about-us
Support the Hooper Collective: https://www.thehoopercollective.org/donate
Follow Madi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sharkgirlmadi?lang=en
Hitchen’s Razor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj6UAwfcgHQ
My World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ohHAbCqLC0
Shark Finning in Indonesia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg9b8_7-sIk
The Hunters Son Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg9b8_7-sIk
Who is Madison Stewart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_7CvEN2emk
Smithsonian Channel on shark finning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiUBRSbHuJo
Australian Geographic: https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2017/11/meet-madison-stewart-aka-shark-girl/
Whalebone Magazine: https://whalebonemag.com/interview-shark-girl-madi-stewart/
“Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me, the choice to lead an ordinary life is no longer an option.. ” – Peter Parker as Spiderman
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