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Animals News tagged with sharks

Great Whites Hang Out in Pacific's 'Shark Cafe'
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, sharks, wildlife )

Maria
- 19 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.
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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
- 29 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
- 32 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
- 32 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
- 32 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
- 34 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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'Barbaric' Removal of Shark Fins for Asian Supermarkets Banned in Scottish Waters
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, sharks, humans, environment, wildlife )

Cal
- 43 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.
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Ban on Slicing Fins From Live Sharks
Animals  (tags: animals, animalcruelty, abuse, cruelty, sharks, wildlife )

Maria
- 44 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
- 49 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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World's First Shark Sanctuary Created By Pacific Island of Palau
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, sharks, habitat, humans, protection )

Maria
- 58 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
One of the smallest nations in the world is to create the first ever shark sanctuary to protect endangered species. The tiny Pacific nation of Palau is banning commercial fishing of sharks and stingrays in its territorial waters - an area the
3 comments
Shark Washed Up on Beach
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, death, sharks, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 59 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Holidaymakers were left terrified after a shark washed up on a British beach
2 comments
Palau Pioneers 'Shark Sanctuary'
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, sharks, sanctuary, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 60 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Palau is to create the world's first "shark sanctuary", banning all commercial shark fishing in its waters.
6 comments
In a Shark's Tooth, a New Family Tree
Animals  (tags: Sharks, wildlife, Great white Sharks, research, science )

Dee
- 70 days ago - nytimes.com
"Like a locomotive with a mouth full of butcher knives." That is how a shark expert, Matt Hooper, described Carcharodon megalodon to the police chief in Peter Benchley's novel "Jaws."
1 comment
Mutilated Sharks - Fin Soup's Main Ingredient ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, sharks, finning, environment, protection, suffering, wildlife )

Cher
- 72 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.
3 comments
Two Great White Sharks Tagged Off Massachusetts Coast
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, sharks, protection, wildlife, humans )

Cal
- 75 days ago - cnn.com
The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries has tagged two great white sharks off Cape Cod in an area where shark sightings have been reported, state officials said
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