Friday, 26 March 2010

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Animal & News: Save the Sharks NOW!!! (Updated)

http://images.smh.com.au/2010/03/24/1254669/hammerhead-420x0.jpg

Another very sad day for the endangered animals on this planet. Proposal to protect endangered Hammerhead sharks has failed, and all sharks species are expected to be massacred. I have included two news reports here, one from the Sydney Morning Herald and one from Examiner.com . Here are two videos as well:

CITES refuses to protect sharks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOiseCeKFdo&NR=1

It is very very sad because I love this fish since I was a child as I have mentioned in previous entries "Animals and Environment: Do Sharks Deserve to Die for Their Fins?" I had a very bad day when I heard of the rejection of bluefin tuna protection proposal, but this time, I am FURIOUS!

To let you understand how furious I am, I will later show you some pictures I got yesterday from Dinozzo, a ex-student of mine. They will be disturbing, but that is my point.

What is the matter with these people who voted down the protection proposal at the conference?? What is wrong with us? How can we do such cruel, cold-blooded thing to such beautiful fish? What have they really done wrong? For millions of years, sharks have been maintaining the equilibrium of the oceans, cleaning up dead fishes, shortening the suffering of the ill ones, sucking up poisonous mercury from the waters and so many more, but WHAT DO WE GIVE THEM IN RETURN? We cut off their fins and throw them back into the salty water so that they bleed continuously with their wounds soaked in salty water, suffocate (they breathe only if they swim) helplessly until they watch themselves die in front of each other as they make their final twitch on the ocean floors!!!

Most of them look fierce, but they don't really like to attack humans, they only attack things that struggle in the water, as proven by the Mythbusters (from 8:00 of Part 1 to 2:30 of Part 3):

Mythbusters Season 6 Shark Week Special - Part 1

Mythbusters Season 6 Shark Week Special - Part 2

Mythbusters Season 6 Shark Week Special - Part 3

And the fact that we haven't even mentioned the cute and calm ones!!! One of my favourite sharks -- Whale Shark

Face to face with a whale shark- Shark Therapy- Big Sharks- BBC Wildlife

They are so calm and beautiful!!! Shark Therapy!!!! Have you heard of that? Did you imagine some kind of mind therapy like this? For those of you who practise Yoga, swimming with whale sharks can be another way for peace of mind! What if they all disappear one day? For those of you who enjoy eating a few thin, transparent, tasteless and poisonous jelly from the back of their fins, ask yourself, how could you put them into your mouth?

Now, here are the pictures from Dicky Ho, the owner of these photos and his encounter with a dying baby whale shark. For original story, you may visit his photo album on Facebook.