sad times we live in....
i just saw sharkwater for the third time. i saw it twice on the ship whilst in the galapagos islands last year and just then i was the only person in the whole cinema watching it....
up to 100 million sharks are killed each year for their fins, where they are often still alive while the fins are cut off. they are then thrown overboard and drown because they cannot swim.
YOU COULD COMPARE IT TO HAVING YOUR HANDS AND FEET CHOPPED OFF AND LEFT TO FEND FOR YOURSELF
they have been here for more than 400 million years, since before the dinosaurs and have survived FIVE MASS EXTINCTIONS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
90% of the shark population have been killed.
it takes about 25 years before they can even have babies!!!
sharks don't EAT people. more people are killed by elephants than sharks
australia plans on opening a shark finning industry in queensland on the great barrier reef.
http://www.sharksavers.org/content/view/260/9/
i urge each and every one of you to go and see the film sharkwater to learn more about sharks and what's happening to them and the oceans and all the other marine/bird life that caught in the fishing lines.
it's showing in melbourne right now
it's available on DVD already
what would the world be like without sharks?
There is increasing alarm around how the loss of sharks may affect the oceans as the great lungs of the earth. Phytoplankton are the micro-plants of the ocean that collectively represent the biggest quantity of vegetation on the planet. Phytoplankton consume more carbon dioxide than all the trees in our forests and produce most of the oxygen we breathe. And, they are food for lots of different species of fish. And many of those fish are, in turn, shark food.
http://www.sharksavers.org/content/view/68/77/
further reading:
http://www.sharktrust.org
http://savingsharks.com/
http://www.sharks.org/
http://www.seashepherd.org/longline/
http://www.sharkwater.com
up to 100 million sharks are killed each year for their fins, where they are often still alive while the fins are cut off. they are then thrown overboard and drown because they cannot swim.
YOU COULD COMPARE IT TO HAVING YOUR HANDS AND FEET CHOPPED OFF AND LEFT TO FEND FOR YOURSELF
they have been here for more than 400 million years, since before the dinosaurs and have survived FIVE MASS EXTINCTIONS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
90% of the shark population have been killed.
it takes about 25 years before they can even have babies!!!
sharks don't EAT people. more people are killed by elephants than sharks
australia plans on opening a shark finning industry in queensland on the great barrier reef.
http://www.sharksavers.org/content/view/260/9/
i urge each and every one of you to go and see the film sharkwater to learn more about sharks and what's happening to them and the oceans and all the other marine/bird life that caught in the fishing lines.
it's showing in melbourne right now
it's available on DVD already
what would the world be like without sharks?
There is increasing alarm around how the loss of sharks may affect the oceans as the great lungs of the earth. Phytoplankton are the micro-plants of the ocean that collectively represent the biggest quantity of vegetation on the planet. Phytoplankton consume more carbon dioxide than all the trees in our forests and produce most of the oxygen we breathe. And, they are food for lots of different species of fish. And many of those fish are, in turn, shark food.
http://www.sharksavers.org/content/view/68/77/
further reading:
http://www.sharktrust.org
http://savingsharks.com/
http://www.sharks.org/
http://www.seashepherd.org/longline/
http://www.sharkwater.com