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We Wont Buy While Sharks Still Die ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, sharks, killing, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 3 hours ago - change.org
Rite Aid Pharmacy and stores sell GNC shark cartilage products.They also sell"Dancing Paws"shark cartilage for Dogs.Please join with me and send letters asking the Rite Aid Corporation to stop carrying theses products.The sharks lives and ocean eco
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Sharks Can Be Identified By Their Bite Marks on Victims
Animals  (tags: Sharks, Humans, Ingredient )

Nancy
- 23 hours ago - news.discovery.com
Humans have the upper hand over sharks now, with millions of sharks killed each year, often just to become a pricey soup ingredient. You can read about the latest findings concerning shark finning at Discovery News.
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New Research Allows Identification Catch Zone of Shark Fins
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, sharks, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, killing, wildanimals )

Cher
- 1 day ago - wildlifeextra.com
Groundbreaking new DNA research has, for the first time, traced scalloped hammerhead shark fins from the burgeoning Hong Kong market all the way back to the sharks' geographic origin. Millions of shark fins are sold at market each year to satisfy the
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FISHERMEN MUST STOP FINNING AND KILLING SHARKS FOR SOUP ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, sharks, finning, environment, killing, AnimalCruelty, suffering, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 1 day ago - change.org
An estimated 73 million sharks around the world are killed every year, primarily for their fins, which are used in the Asian delicacy shark fin soup. Too often, fishermen slice off the valuable fins and discard the bodies at sea. This wasteful practice
8 comments
ACTION ALERT: Pass the Shark Conservation Act!!
Animals  (tags: sharks, protection, ocean animals, conservation, populations )

Simone
- 1 day ago - thepetitionsite.com
Every year, millions of sharks are caught for their fins to feed the growing worldwide demand for shark fin soup. And this demand has led to drastic declines in shark populations around the world. Some populations have declined by as much as 99 percent
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Hammerhead Sharks Have "Human" Vision
Animals  (tags: animals, hammerhead sharks, sharks, Shark's vision, eye spots )

Katie
- 6 days ago - news.preview.nationalgeographic.com
Hammerhead sharks' distinctive T-shaped heads give the predators human-like vision, according to a new study.There have always been ideas about why hammerheads have funny-looking heads, but nobody has systematically examined these hypotheses.....
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Great Whites Hang Out in Pacific's 'Shark Cafe'
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, sharks, wildlife )

Maria
- 28 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Great Whites may be loners, but the ocean's most feared predators also hang out together between Mexico and Hawaii at a deep sea watering hole known as the "White Shark Cafe," a study released Wednesday reveals.
2 comments
Shark Free Vancouver,BC-Stop Shark Fin Consumption ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, sharks, finning, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, killing, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 38 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Sharks are being "finned" at the rate of 100 million a year, and those are just the reported numbers. "Finning" is the practice of cutting off only the shark fins and discarding the body. Not only is this very wasteful as that's throwing away 90% of the
14 comments
Virginia and North Carolina Going the Wrong Way for Sharks
Animals  (tags: animals, sharks, finning, killing, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 41 days ago - blog.peta.org
Shark finning is one of the most disgusting practices of the already disgusting fishing industry. Sharks are caught, their fins are cut off, and they are either left to suffocate or are thrown back into the water to slowly bleed to death or be eaten by
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Pass the Shark Conservation Act Today ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, sharks, conservation, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 42 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Fishing interests in Virginia and North Carolina are lobbying to exempt certain sharks from a law designed to ban the cruel practice of shark finning. We need your help to stop them!
10 comments
The Brutal Business of Shark Finning
Animals  (tags: animals, sharks, finning, killing, cruelty, death, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife, wildanimals, suffering )

Cher
- 42 days ago - seashepherd.org
Human beings are skilled at justification. Every year humans slaughter over 100 million sharks yet we depict them as vicious and blood-thirsty killers.
3 comments
Shark Finning By Stealth in Australian Waters - Take Action
Animals  (tags: sharks, finnings, shark finning, wildlife, suffering, protection, endangered, animalcruelty, animalwelfare, abuse, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, humans, extinction, ethics )

Elena
- 44 days ago - amcs.org.au
At present, the Queensland Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation (DEEDI) supports the export of shark fins from this fishery and is therefore complicit in the unsustainable and wasteful global shark fin industry.
15 comments
'Barbaric' Removal of Shark Fins for Asian Supermarkets Banned in Scottish Waters
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, sharks, humans, environment, wildlife )

Cal
- 52 days ago - heraldscotland.com
Slicing the fins off endangered sharks and selling them to China for soup - a practice widely condemned as "barbaric" - is to be banned in Scottish waters.
2 comments
Ban on Slicing Fins From Live Sharks
Animals  (tags: animals, animalcruelty, abuse, cruelty, sharks, wildlife )

Maria
- 53 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
BRITAIN is to ban shark-finning, the fishermen's practice of slicing off a shark's fins and discarding the body at sea. The move is aimed at preserving the UK's remaining sharks from destruction by fishermen exploiting Asia's booming market for shark-fin
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Loss Of Top Predators Causing Surge In Smaller Predators, Ecosystem Collapse
Animals  (tags: animals, wolves, sharks, cougars, lions, predators, hunting, ranchers, livestock, sheep, science, investigation, research, humans, wildlife, wildanimals, extinction, environment, habitat, ecosystems, nature, coyotes, rodents, economy )

Tom
- 58 days ago - sciencedaily.com
The catastrophic decline around the world of "apex" predators such as wolves, cougars, lions or sharks has led to a huge increase in smaller "mesopredators" that are causing major economic and ecological disruptions, a new study concludes.
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FISHERMEN MUST STOP FINNING AND KILLING SHARKS FOR SOUP ! TAKE ACTION !
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