This video is called Before It’s Too Late: Whale Shark – Gypsy of the Deep.
From daily The Morning Star in Britain:
Sharks protected by new trade law
Monday 11 March 2013
by Our Foreign Desk
Conservationists at a global wildlife conference in Bangkok voted to regulate the trade in sharks today.
Delegates at the triennial meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna adopted proposals to put the oceanic whitetip, hammerhead and porbeagle sharks on a list of species whose trade is closely controlled.
More than two dozen species of shark are officially endangered and more than 100 others are considered vulnerable.
Like manta rays, sharks are seen as valuable to nations with dive tourism industries, with island territories such as the Bahamas, Fiji and the Maldives deriving major benefits.
Eleven nations including Brazil, the US and Egypt proposed regulating trade in the species.
Shark Advocates International founder Sonja Fordham was pleased with the votes.
“These highly traded, threatened shark species urgently need protection from the unsustainable trade that jeopardises populations, ecosystems, livelihoods, and ecotourism,” she said.
Wildlife Humane Society International deputy director Rebecca Regnery added that the proposal adoptions were “the only way to truly give some of the most heavily traded species a respite from the commercial onslaught.”
Supporters said the species’ numbers have declined due to overfishing and being accidentally caught by fishermen chasing other types of fish.
See also here.
Related articles
- Shark Fin Soup a Thing of the Past? 5 Sharks Species Granted CITES Protection (scienceworldreport.com)
- Conservation Body Votes to Regulate Shark Trade (abcnews.go.com)
- Five shark species win protection against finning trade (guardian.co.uk)
- Bahamas whitetip sharks new research (dearkitty1.wordpress.com)
- Conservation body bolsters shark fin trade regs (cbsnews.com)
- Sharks, manta rays win global trade protection (thenewstribe.com)
- ‘Pressure’ on shark protection vote (bbc.co.uk)
Tis is such good news – shame it’s taken such a long time to be agreed on.
Indeed; and the protection should be extended to more shark species.
Yes, that did disappoint us too but any gain has to be one small step forward. Now to see how this is monitored…
True.
Thank God. It’s bad enough the shark population is decimated as it is.
Pingback: Wildlife endangered in British colonies | Dear Kitty. Some blog
Pingback: Bahamas whitetip sharks new research | Dear Kitty. Some blog