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ACTION ALERT: FISHERMEN MUST STOP FINNING AND KILLING SHARKS FOR SOUP!!!
Animals  (tags: fisherman, shark finning, killing sharks, soups, cruelty, destruction, oceans, protection )

Simone
- 4 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 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
- 46 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.
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Florida Shark Fin Dealer Pleads Guilty To Illegally Dealing Fins Of Protected Species
Animals  (tags: shark finning )

Angela
- 105 days ago - underwatertimes.com
Mark L. Harrison,today pleaded guilty in federal district court to violating the Lacey Act, a federal fish and wildlife trafficking law, by dealing in shark fins and not reporting their landing as required by law.
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ACTION ALERT: Stop Shark Finning!!!- Pls Sign BRAND NEW PETITION
Animals  (tags: sharks, threatened, killed, endangered, massacred, shark finning, legalisation, protection, ocean survivors )

Simone
- 107 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
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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ACTION ALERT: Stop The Brutal Finning Of Sharks!- Pls Sign NEW PETITION
Animals  (tags: shark finning, cruelty, oceans, protection, banning, conservation )

Simone
- 111 days ago - gopetition.com.au
This slaughter needs to be stopped as soon as possible! Every year thousands upon thousands of shark species are caught and get their fins hacked off by normally rusty machetes, knives or anything sharp that is available.
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Two Tons of Shark Fins on Taiwanese Boat Seized
Animals  (tags: sharks, shark finning, poaching, oceans, conservation )

In A Mirr
- 264 days ago - iol.co.za
A Taiwanese fishing vessel with nearly two tons of dried shark fins on board was seized at Cape Town harbour on Saturday. Crew will face criminal charges for providing false information about their catch.
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EU Gives Shark Protection Teeth
Animals  (tags: sharks, loopholes, shark finning, environment, endangered, extinction, habitat, protection, animals, AnimalWelfare, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 302 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The European Commission has unveiled measures aimed at protecting sharks, many of which are in sharp decline.
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(GOOD NEWS) "Bill to Protect Sharks From Finning Introduced in Congress"
Animals  (tags: SHARK FINNING, suffering, cruelty, death, slaughter, killing, humans, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animaladvocates, animalrights, endangered, extinction, protection, law )

Brenda
- 321 days ago - hsus.org
"Each year, tens of millions of sharks worldwide have their fins cruelly cut off at sea and are then thrown back overboard to die a lingering, painful death," "Shark finning threatens the survival of essential marine species, and we commend Congresswoman
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Disgusting Proof of WA Fish Carnage Covered Up
Animals  (tags: sadness, slaughter, sharks, shark finning )

Claudia
- 335 days ago - thewest.com.au
Captured on a lonely stretch of the North-West's 80 Mile Beach by a helicopter pilot, they show the remains of hundreds of sharks dumped illegally after being caught in nets and having their fins sliced off for sale in Asian restaurants.
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Shark Fin Soup Alters An Ecosystem
Animals  (tags: oceans, marine wildlife, sharks, shark finning, effecting ecosystem, slaughter, suffering, sadness, protection, endangered, extinction )

Jacquelin
- 359 days ago - edition.cnn.com
KAOSHIUNG, Taiwan (CNN) -- There is no animal on earth more vilified than the shark. Pop culture references and annual, over-hyped reports of attacks on swimmers or surfers have put sharks on the top of the list of the world's most feared living things.
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A Sad Shark's Tale: Shocking Images Show Scale of Fin Trade
Animals  (tags: bali, marine wildlife, sharks, shark finning, global market, endangered, extinction, humans, sadness, suffering, slaughter, protection )

Jacquelin
- 383 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
These shocking pictures reveal the scale of the world's trade in shark fins for use in traditional herbal medicines and in the much sought after shark-fin soup. Taken last month at Denpasar harbour on the Indonesian island of Bali, the images record the
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Soup Driving Sharks to Extinction
Animals  (tags: asia, marine wildlife, sharks, shark finning, AnimalCruelty, endangered, extinction, protection, suffering, slaughter, killing )

Jacquelin
- 394 days ago - theaustralian.news.com.au
ASIAN demand for shark fin soup is pushing the animal's population in the wild to new lows, the Government and a wildlife trade monitoring group say. Their joint report found that while more than one-fifth of shark species were already threatened with
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New Zealand Government Fails to Stop Shark Finning
Animals  (tags: w zealand, marine wildlife, sharks, shark finning, endangered, extinction, humans, sadness, suffering, protection )

Jacquelin
- 399 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The New Zealand's Government's plan of action on sharks does little to protect them as it continues to allow shark finning, Forest & Bird says. Minister of Fisheries Jim Anderton released the Government's five-year national plan of action for sharks, w
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Take Action to Protect Endangered Sharks and Prevent Finning
Animals  (tags: shark finning, take action )

Karin
- 621 days ago - secure2.convio.net
Please help a great number of overfished and woefully under-protected shark species. Please voice your support for a new Atlantic-state conservation plan by March 28. Many Atlantic shark populations are in deep trouble. Nonetheless, shark-fishing rules
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Take Action: Take the No Shark Fin Pledge!
Animals  (tags: shark finning, needless death, torture, China, Chinese New Year, soup, cruelty, death, endangered, AnimalCruelty, extinction, protection, slaughter, society, suffering, oceans, Sustainabililty )

Rebecca
- 668 days ago - community.hsus.org
Each year, millions of sharks are hunted, have their fins sliced off, and then are thrown back into the ocean, dead or dying. "Finning" is done to satisfy an appetite for dishes such as shark fin soup, which may be served by Chinese restaurants. Act NOW!
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