http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/06/12/embrace-the-sharks-before-its-too-late/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day\'s most compelling topics. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:30:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/06/12/embrace-the-sharks-before-its-too-late/#comment-142 Jupp Kerckerinck Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:07:12 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/06/12/embrace-the-sharks-before-its-too-late/#comment-142 It is very sad indeed that the people have no knowledge of the declining shark populations, nor of the importance of sharks in the very complex ecosystem of the oceans; or the daily slaughter of thousands of sharks all over the world. Sharks are being killed for the profit of a few big companies and no government does much, if anything, about it. The ocean is our life support system and if the sharks disappear, the oceans will die. When that happens the human race will die as well. Why isn't anybody doing something about it? 70 million sharks die alone for shark fin soup in China, the Japanese kill hundreds of whales and tens of thousands of dolphins indiscriminately and we are all watching this terrible thing to happen without much interest or compassion. The media regales us with horror stories about sharks and Mr.Spielberg has yet to put some of the millions he made with "Jaws", back into shark conservation, because his movie has started a world-wide shark slaughter frenzy that has no equal. I can only hope that articles like this one will finally get our politicians off their behinds and take some action. We are a small group in the Shark Research Institute and at Sharkprotect.com but we need much more publicity and action. I have recently been in 4 talk shows in Germany, which gave me the chance to educate over 4 million viewers about sharks. I have not been successful in getting on a single TV show to do something similar. Baron Jupp Kerckerinck zur Borg www.sharkprotect.com It is very sad indeed that the people have no knowledge of the declining shark populations, nor of the importance of sharks in the very complex ecosystem of the oceans; or the daily slaughter of thousands of sharks all over the world. Sharks are being killed for the profit of a few big companies and no government does much, if anything, about it.
The ocean is our life support system and if the sharks disappear, the oceans will die. When that happens the human race will die as well. Why isn’t anybody doing something about it? 70 million sharks die alone for shark fin soup in China, the Japanese kill hundreds of whales and tens of thousands of dolphins indiscriminately and we are all watching this terrible thing to happen without much interest or compassion.
The media regales us with horror stories about sharks and Mr.Spielberg has yet to put some of the millions he made with “Jaws”, back into shark conservation, because his movie has started a world-wide shark slaughter frenzy that has no equal.
I can only hope that articles like this one will finally get our politicians off their behinds and take some action. We are a small group in the Shark Research Institute and at Sharkprotect.com but we need much more publicity and action. I have recently been in 4 talk shows in Germany, which gave me the chance to educate over 4 million viewers about sharks. I have not been successful in getting on a single TV show to do something similar.
Baron Jupp Kerckerinck zur Borg
www.sharkprotect.com

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