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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
- 18 days 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
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Shark Free Vancouver,BC-Stop Shark Fin Consumption ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, sharks, finning, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, killing, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 55 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
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Virginia and North Carolina Going the Wrong Way for Sharks
Animals  (tags: animals, sharks, finning, killing, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 58 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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The Brutal Business of Shark Finning
Animals  (tags: animals, sharks, finning, killing, cruelty, death, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife, wildanimals, suffering )

Cher
- 58 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.
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Mutilated Sharks - Fin Soup's Main Ingredient ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, sharks, finning, environment, protection, suffering, wildlife )

Cher
- 97 days ago - all-creatures.org
Help end finning...the process of catching sharks at sea, cutting off their fins and discarding their bodies back into the water so they slowly bleed to death.
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Ask Your Senators To Pass The Shark Conservation Act of 2009 ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, sharks, finning, habitat, wildanimals, wildlife, killing, suffering )

Cher
- 113 days ago - animalrights.change.org
The U.S. Senate's recess ends in a week and we need your help to ensure quick passage of a bill that would end shark finning in U.S. waters. The Shark Conservation Act of 2009, introduced by Senator John Kerry (D-MA) on Earth Day, would end shark finning
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Stop Shark Finning In The Galapagos / Ecuador ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, sharks, finning, killing, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 158 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
In one and a half hours, over 15,000 sharks get murdered because of shark finning. The Government allows people to fin sharks, merely because it makes them a lot of money and they use it in soup. When people fin sharks, the sharks sre still alive and
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Tell Congress: Ban Shark Finning ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, sharks, finning, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 194 days ago - change.org
The new Congress has hit the ground running, with the introduction of the Shark Conservation Act (HR 81). This bill would require that sharks caught in all U.S. waters be landed whole with their fins still attached. Please tell your Representative to
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BAN THE SALE OF SHARK FINS AND PRODUCTS ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, sharks, finning, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, death, suffering, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 199 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The practice of finning has been illegal in the U.S. since 2002, but the importation and sale of the fins is still legal. "Finning", defined as removing the fins from a shark and discarding the remainder of the shark at sea, has developed to keep up
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Stop Shark Finning ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, sharks, finning, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, environment, protection, killing, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 212 days ago - change.org
Please send the message below to your senators urging them to vote "YES" on The Shark Conservation Act of 2009 that will close current loopholes to stop the practice while revitalizing shark conservation efforts on a global scale.
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Sign Petition: End Finning - Save the Sharks!
Animals  (tags: animals, sharks, japan, finning, wildlife, suffering, cruelty, death, endangered, habitat, humans, slaughter, sadness, society, culture, abuse, food, business, money, government, politics )

Tom
- 224 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Target: U.S. Senate. The wasteful practice of finning - slicing off a shark's valuable fins for soup and tossing the body back to sea - must be stopped. The situation is grim for a growing number of shark populations who are in peril from overfishing.
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End Finning -- Save the Sharks ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, sharks, AnimalWelfare, finning, environment, protection, wildlife, killing )

Cher
- 226 days ago - animalrights.change.org
The bill, which already passed in the House of Representatives last March, is needed to end the practice of shark finning in US waters and to step up shark conservation efforts in other countries. The US passed a national finning ban in 2000, but the
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Together Against Shark Finning ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: sharks, finning, cruelty, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 258 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
This cruel method kill millions and millions sharks every year! Sharks are throw alive in the water without fins. Please help us to give European commission a good reason to stop and fight against this method !
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Stop Shark Finning & The Sale of Shark Fin Products! Sign Petition!!
Animals  (tags: sharks, finning, animals, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 310 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Sharks have survived through four periods of mass extinction and now are facing possible extinction due to the actions of humans.
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Petition: Oppose New Shark Fishing in the Great Barrier Reef
Animals  (tags: animals, sharks, fish, finning, fishing, Great Coral Reef, petition )

Catherine
- 536 days ago - sharksavers.org
<p>We call upon the Australian government to take the lead and protect sharks so that one of the world's most treasured ecosystems and the species key to ocean health can continue to thrive.</p>
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