>>> WE'LL LOOK AT A NEW PROGRAM HELPING WITH ENDANGERED SPECIES. >> THAT CAMERA RIGHT THERE. >> THAT ONE? >> THANK YOU. >> GEORGE, I'M SURE -- >> LET'S JUST GO TO WILL REEVE. >> OKAY, GEORGE. THAT'S GOOD. I'M OVER HERE. TRY NOT TO HAVE BABY SHARKS STUCK IN YOUR HEAD WHILE -- >> FISHING HAS DECIMATED SHARK POPULATIONS AROUND THE WORLD BUT OUR ECOSYSTEMS NEED THESE SHARKS TO THRIVE AND OUR FRIENDS AT NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HOPPED ON A PLANE WITH SOME BABY SHARKS ON A JOURNEY TO THEIR NEW HOME IN PARADISE. >> THESE BABY SHARKS MOLLY AND AUDREY REPRESENT BABY STEPS IN A GLOBAL PROJECT TO REPOPULATE OUR OCEANS. IT'S CALLED THE RESHARK PROGRAM. BREEDING BABY ZEBRA SHARKS WHO ARE HEADED HERE, THE WATERS OF RAJA AM PRAT. JENNIFER AND HER HUSBAND DOCUMENT THE PROGRAM FIRSTHAND. >> WE HAVE SPECIES DISAPPEARING AT A RAPID RATE AND IN SOME CASES THE ONLY PLACE THAT WE HAVE THE GENETICS LEFT OR SPECIES LEFT ARE OFTEN IN AQUARIUMS. >> Reporter: THESE COCOONS CALL MERMAID PURSES ARE BRED IN SCIENTIFICALLY MANAGED POPULATIONS IN AQUARIUMS AROUND THE WORLD AND THESE EGGS TRANSPORTED BY PLANE TO LOCAL HATCHERIES IN INDONESIA WHERE THEY ARE HATCHED AND CARED FOR BY SHARK NANNIES. >> I THINK OF THE ECOSYSTEM AS A LIBRARY WITH ALL THESE BOOKS AS SPECIES. IMAGINE WALKING INTO AN EMPTY LIBRARY OR AN EMPTY ECOSYSTEM SO BY BRINGING THEM BACK INTO THE ECO OF SYSTEM YOU'RE BEBUILDING AND IMPROVING THE OVERALL ECOSYSTEM AND ITS RESILIENCY. >> Reporter: THEY LIVE IN A SHARK SCHOOL UNTIL BIOLOGISTS SHERT PHI THEY'RE READY FOR RELEASE IN THE MARINE PROTECTED ENVIRONMENT HERE WHERE SCIENTISTS ARE HOPEFUL THEY'LL REPOPULATE. >> IT DOESN'T STOP WITH ZEBRA SHARKS. IT'S A LONG LIST OF POTENTIAL SPECIES THAT CAN BE RESTORED AND RESHARK IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO REINTRODUCE THESE POPULATIONS. >> IT'S A GREAT PROGRAM AND THE GOAL IS TO RELEASE 500 OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS THROUGH THE PROGRAM AND RESEARCHERS SAY TIGER SHARKS CAN GROW UP TO 18 FEET LONG AND LIVE UP TO 30 YEARS. IF YOU WANT TO SEE MORE ABOUT THE PROGRAM HEAD TO NAT