Friday, March 28, 2014

sharks

Extinction of sharks
These animals may be scary, ferocious beasts but they still need love and help so the can keep their population alive and everyone can help us save the great beautiful amazing sharks. Lets all get together and save one of the most oldest, beloved and beautiful creatures in the sea.


Sharks are being slaughtered and eaten only for their fins . They cut the fins off of the sharks and sometimes the leave the wounded shark in the ocean. Without its fin sharks sink to the bottom of the ocean they sit there until they die of starvation.


The creature that is killing these magnificent creatures they don’t have sharp teeth or strangling tentacles. This creature doesn’t even live in the sea. The creature killing the sharks is the human race. Humans have been killing sharks for thousands of years. Now all of the shark killings are beginning to add up the shark population is having a major decrease. in the 1800’s Americans relied on oil from the sharks liver to waterproof their boats. Native Americans prized the the teeth of sharks (bull,tiger sharks) When the Chinese wealth increased the demand of shark fin soup has increased.


Sharks are some of the earths oldest creatures they were know to be around when dinosaurs like the T-rex (tyrannosaurus rex) were roaring over the great plains. Killing this sharks will cause an economic crisis. This will happen because if the shark population is decreased then the sharks prey will grow larger,and if the sharks prey increases then the preys food will decrease in population. An example is the bull shark dies then the cownose ray population will increase cownose rays eat scallops along the North Carolina Coast, and then the scallops are all gone so most of the people and the fisherman that need/live their lives and jobs depend on them they will be out of luck.


There is still hope to save the sharks because the demand of shark fin soup is decreasing in china. This due to all of the protest and rallies they are having in the world. Even celebrities are beginning to help out NBA retired superstar Yao Ming who is a great athlete he’s 7ft 2 inches tall and a great player. Also famous movie star Jackie chan a chinese male are helping by giving speeches at the rallies and giving the group money to help save these beautiful creatures of the sea. Maybe with all the help from around the world we can make a change and save the beautiful creatures of the deep blue see.