Selasa, 29 November 2011
Evidence that the funds for the Japanese Security costs against Sea Shepherd came from the Tsunami Earthquake Relief Fund:
More evidence concerning this behavior of the Government of Japan in this matter has been revealed to me. To read about this information, please visit:CONFIRMED - Donation money to Japan used for Antarctic Whaling: http://www.planetoceanalliance.org/forum/showthread.php/16957-CONFIRMED-Donation-money-to-Japan-used-for-Antarctic-Whaling
Stop Killing Dolphins
Here is a link which discusses the disgusting practice of "Drive dolphin" Hunting on our Planet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_drive_hunting
Help stop Drive Dolphin hunting. How, by geting involved by signing petitions like these:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/9/help-stop-dolphin-drive-hunting/
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/end-dolphin-slaughter-in-japan/
Please join these facebook groups:
Mermaidseas Dolphin Defense League International :
https://www.facebook.com/Mermaidseas.Dolphin.Defense.League.International
Stop Dolphin Drive Hunting:
https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=128633203833434
You can leave a comment on the PM of Japan's Facebook page to express your disgust concerning the Dolphin and Porpoise slaughters there. : http://www.facebook.com/
Dolphins need your voice to stop the killing against them! Please take a few minutes to involve yourself in helping them by signing these petitions and by leaving a message on the PM of Japan's facebook page.
Thank you on behalf of our dolphin friends! Please do not use profanity that will only hurt the chances of helping our dolphin friends. Thank you. Here is a video I hope you take a few minutes to watch. This discusses the truth about what is going on in our World to our dolphin friends!
Senin, 28 November 2011
The Biggest Killer....
"The Biggest Killer-Nature’s greatest threat in today’s society is human indifference."
These important twelve words are the first words in Nicole McLachlan's latest blog post concerning the disgusting slaughter of innocent dolphin families in Taiji, Japan. Sadly these words not only apply to the horrors which our dolphin friends are having to experience on a daily basis in Japanese waters, but they also refer to what is happening in the World to many of our plant and animals species on the Planet due to the Human species. To read Nicole's very important message about human indifference and the awful murders of dolphin families in the waters off of Taiji Japan please click on the following link:
http://nicolemclachlan.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/the-biggest-killer/
Please share this very important message of Nicole's with your friends and family members. The more people who hear Nicole's very astute and accurate message the better!!!
What are the causes or reasons for human indifference? Firstlly, I believe it would be a good idea to define the word "indifference" so we all have the same point of reference.The online edition of the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word "indifferent" in this manner::
:"marked by a lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern for something." (source:http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indifferent )
Why wouldn't people on this planet be interested, enthusiastic about being involved in stopping these dolphin murders, or concerned over the fact that thousands of dolphins are losing their lives each year in Taiji Japan??
I would like to assert that there are several reasons for this situation. Firstly, people may not be interested in these awful murders because they may not even know that these murders are occurring!! It is because of this fact that I, and others like Nicole , The Sea Shepherd Society and other organizations like the SSS, are telling the World about the awful behavior of some Japanese in Taiji, Japan Waters. The big question that activists such as Nicole,and The Sea Shepherd Society, and myself are asking is "Why aren't the World media (television, print, and radio) interested in reporting on the deaths of another life form on this planet? Do the media think that most people are not interested in the plight of other life on this planet? According to an article entitled, "Animals in media: Righting the wrongs: The misrepresentation of animals continues when animals go to press"
Published on January 25, 2010 by Marc Bekoff in Animal Emotions, " at the website:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/201001/animals-in-media-righting-the-wrongs
" Carrie Packwood Freeman at Georgia State University has shown that when animals go to press there are "serious" concerns about how they are represented. She notes in addition to objectifying animals when we use the inanimate pronoun it, we also do so when we call them livestock, meat, seafood, or game rather than cow, pig, chicken, fish, or elk. She also notes a strong tendency to refer to animals by their utilitarian end such as beef cattle, dairy cows, laboratory rats, or circus elephants". As Marc Bekoff goes on to state, the language which the media uses when it is talking about our animal friends can actually demean animals!! He asserts that "Such misrepresentations lead to the perception that chimpanzees are "Subhuman."
Clearly the media of this planet need to learn how to use language in a completely different way than they are at present in regards to our animal friends!!! It certainly is ironic to me that many people think that humans are superior to other life forms on this planet because of the advanced level of communication we possess (in the form of words, and written and oral language) , yet in the case of the media of this Planet, some of these people are not using our language correctly or are even using language incorrectly in regards to other animals which share this planet with us!! Why are humans listening to, or reading the news which is being written and spoken to us when it is misrepresenting the other life forms on this planet??
Marc Bekoff in his article continues in this manner:
"Animals are also misrepresented in still photography and in wildlife films." What can we do about media misrepresentations? Some simple rules of thumb will go a long way to representing animals more accurately. We can refrain from using words such as "higher" or "lower" to refer to animals because individuals do what they need to do to be card-carrying members of their species. We should get word-processors to stop replacing “who” with “that” when referring to animals. We should stop portraying animals as mock humans. We must pay attention to what we know about the fascinating cognitive, emotional, and moral capacities of animals because misrepresentations underestimate and demean them."
These certainly are wonderful suggestions of his!!! I wish that this article of Marc Bekoff's was sent to all of the major television and radio networks and stations on this Planet as well as to all the newspaper and magazines which are printed on the Earth!!
As Marc Bekoff concludes:
"Given the enormous amount of press animals are receiving in what might be called the "century of the animal" we should expect that these who write about animals represent them as the beings who they are, not as who we want them to be or as objects to be used for our own ends."
...."Nonhuman animals deserve better....." "...more accurate and less deflationary and "cute" representations will make their lives better."
Marc our animal friends sure do deserve better and they sure do deserve to be represented more accurately by the media so their lives are better than we have made them!!! What can you do to improve the quality of life for other animals on this planet? You can phone, write or email the media when you find that they are not using the most accurate or are not representing our animal friends in a deflationary manner! You can also contact the media and ask them to be much less indifferent to the other animals (and for that matter) all the other life on this Planet!!
Please do so, in order that our animal friends get the kind of live they deserve to live on this home we share with them!! Thank you for reading this post! Are you willing to help dolphins and other animals the kind of lives that Mother Nature intended them to have? I hope so!!
Dolphins deserve to live like this in their family units (pods):
Sabtu, 26 November 2011
Hou Yifan retains Women's World Chess Championship
Seventeen year old Hou Yifan of China (photo on the right above) has retained her World Champion Crown of Women's Chess!
Hou Yifan, 17, retained the title when she drew the eighth game of a match against Indian GM Humpy Koneru (pictured above on the left),. The final score of the best-of-10 match was 5.5 points to 2.5 points. Both players hold the Male Grandmaster Crown in Professional Chess. Yes chess is a sexist activity! Congratulations to Humpy Koneru for reaching the Championship match!
Here are some links to some analysis of all the games:
Game 1:http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7673
Game 2:http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7675
Game 3:http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7679
Game 4:http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7683
Game 5:http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7687
Game 6:http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7691
Game 7:http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7697
Game 8:http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7700
Congratulations to Hou Yifan! Here is a link to an interesting interview with her which was done after her match against Humpy Koneru: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7705
To learn more about Hou Yifan please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hou_Yifan
You can learn some interesting things about her opponent, Humpy Koneru at this website:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koneru_Humpy
To learn more about Humpy Koneru please read the interview Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk gave her and posted to Alexandra's website:
http://www.chessblog.com/2009/11/star-interview-humpy-koneru.html
I hope Hou Yifan enjoys her reign as Women's World Chess Champion!!
Golden orb web spider spins ant-repellent silk
Two Golden Orb spiders:the one on the left is a female and the one on the right is a
male
(source of image:http://geoffpark.wordpress.com/category/invertebrates/page/2/ )
To read an article entitled, Golden orb web spider spins ant-repellent silk please click on the highlighted words in this sentence. So once again we see that it was another animal species which beat humans to the punch, this time it is the Golden orb web spider that seems to have created the first known insect repellent!
According to the website http://www.naturia.per.sg/buloh/inverts/nephila.htm , the Golden Orb spider species
"makes the largest and strongest web. It gets its name from the golden colour of its silk." Female spiders can measure up to 45 mm while the smaller males measure only 6 mm.
The web created by the female orb spider " is extremely strong. So strong that even small birds stick in the net!!"
"E.J. Banfield, a naturalist who lived on Dunk Island in Queensland, wrote in 1918 about indigenous people using these webs for fishing.
Being a male of this insect species is a risky proposition at best, because "The web is occupied by a single female and several hopeful males. Although it might not be true of Nephila pilipes, in the related species, Nephila plumipes, 60% of males are eaten during or after" mating!!The end of a stick was twisted in the web to attach the web to it, then the stick was waved about to spin the web into a single line about a metre long. The spider was squashed onto the end of the line and trailed in the water. Fish that attacked the bait became attached by their mouths and were taken. The breaking strain of the line was estimated at about 0.3kg but this was of no real consequence because the fish that were being caught were only about 4cm long. However, the method was successful enough to yield 17 fish in 10 minutes of observation."
"This species was first described by the Danish entomologist, Johan Fabricius, in 1793. A pupil of Linnaeus, the Swedish scientist who devised the basis of modern biological classification, Fabricius went on to become a professor at the University of Kiel (which was in Denmark at that time), publishing several important works on insects."
"The Golden-Orb Spider is found in the northern parts of Australia as well as in South-East Asia and in the Papua-New Guinea region."
source:http://www.learningspark.com.au/shop/nt/gospider/index.html
"The golden silk orb-weavers (genus Nephila) are a genus of araneomorph spiders noted for the impressive webs they weave. (The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha) are a suborder of spiders. They are distinguished by having fangs that oppose each other and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (tarantulas and their close kin), which have fangs that are nearly parallel in alignment. source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araneomorph )
Nephila consists of numerous individual species found around the world. They are also commonly called golden orb-weavers, giant wood spiders, or banana spiders. In North America, the golden silk orb-weavers (see also Nephila clavipes) are sometimes referred to as writing spiders due to occasional zigzag patterns (stabilimenta) built into their webs, though these occur much more frequently in the webs of Argiope, such as the St Andrew's Cross spider."
"The species N. jurassica, which lived about 165 million years ago, had a leg span of some 15 cm, and is the largest known fossilized spider/
"The genus name roughly translated from Ancient Greek, means "fond of spinning", a testament to the enormous webs the golden orbs weave. The golden orb's web has been seen to start at the top of a 6 metre tree and stretch as much as 2 metres across. Whereas most other spider webs are short-lived, these impressive structures can last for years."
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_silk_orb-weaver
I know many people have a fear or dislike of spiders however they are amazing animals which have very important roles and lives on our planet! Spiders are predators that eat various other arthropods, usually smaller than themselves. Because they are acting as predators they kill and eat many harmful species of insects to humans.
Spiders "are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms. Spiders are found worldwide on every continent except for Antarctica, and have become established in nearly every habitat with the exception of air and sea colonization. As of 2008, approximately 40,000 spider species, and 109 families have been recorded by taxonomists!!"
(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider
Here is a short video about The Golden Orb species which I found on Youtube:
How many of you knew that some spiders species consist of members who live together (ie.they are social animals)?? I didn't know this until now! Fascinating!!
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider
I hope you have enjoyed learning about The Golden Orb spiders and spiders in general. I sure have!!! :)
Jumat, 18 November 2011
Women's World Chess Championship Hou Yifan wins game 3 !!
The third game of the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship was played yesterday. Chinese GM Hou Yifan (pictured above) won the game when her opponent, Humpy Koneru resigned after move 37. Yifan has the black pieces in the game. The opening played in the game was the Queen's Gambit Declined:Ragozin variation. This means that the score in the match is now 2-1 for Hou Yifan with game 4 being played today. Analysis of the third game which was done by Grandmaster Alejandro Ramirez can be played through by going to the Chessbase.com website: http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7679 Game 4 of the match is being played today.
You can read a short report (which includes photos and some analysis) about Game 3 by going to the FIDE website:
http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/5714-womens-world-chess-championship-match-round-3.html
Other reports about Game 3 are at :
(a) http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/wwch-g3-hou-yifan-scores-first-win and
(b) http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2011/11/game-3-hou-yifan-takes-lead.html
(c)Computer analysis of all the moves played in game 3 can be played through at this website:
http://livechess.chessdom.com/site/
You can watch the fourth game live at the FIDE Website by clicking on the following link:
http://www.wwcc2011tirana.com/template.php?pag=1&tongue=ENG The game begins at 15:00 CET Time. You can find out what time the game begins where you live by clicking on this link:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Women\%27s%2BWorld%2BChess%2BChampionship&iso=20111118T15&p1=284
Best wishes to both players!
Kamis, 17 November 2011
The state of Canada's water supply!
These grades are shameful! What are we Canadians doing to our water supply?? And our Federal Government gets an F for its Grade??? Apparently, Canadians have been blessed with clean water for too long! Having been to countries myself where they have problems with their water, Canadians should realize the blessing we have had in terms of clean and disease free water!
"Much of Canada's tap water remains at risk from contamination.For the first time, the report has expanded beyond treatment and monitoring to look at protection of drinking water sources."
"However, it finds that only seven of 13 provinces and territories have taken steps to implement full-fledged source-water protection plans." (source:http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/story/2011/11/15/environment-ecojustice-drinking-water.html )
Why hasn't the Federal Government of Canada required all provinces and territories in this country to have full-fledged source-water protection plans??
Rabu, 16 November 2011
Tal Memorial 2011 Chess Tournament
The 2011 Tal Memorial Chess Tournament has begun in Moscow. The event runs from November 16th to November 25th in Moscow, Russia. Ten of the strongest chess players in the World are participating in this year's event:
Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen with an elo of 2826 is the highest-rated player in the event. Other players participating (presented in order based upon their elo rating) are:Viswanathan Anand (the current World chess champion whose elo rating is 2811 second-highest-rated player in the World), Levon Aronian ( with an elo rating of 2802 currently the third-highest-rated player in the World), GM Vladimir Kramnik whose elo of 2800 make him the fourth-highest-rated player in the November 2011 FIDE ratings list, GM Vassily Ivanchuk, who is the sixth-highest-rated player in the World with an elo of 2775, GM Sergey Karjakin,who has an elo of 2763, Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura who is the tenth-highest-rated player in the World with an elo of 2758, GM Peter Svidler (elo 2755), GM Boris Gelfand (elo 2744), and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi (elo 2730) round out the field for the tournament. The time control for this event is: 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, 50 minutes for the next 20 moves, and 15 minutes for the rest of the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move one.
Here are the results from round one of the tournament:
Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen with an elo of 2826 is the highest-rated player in the event. Other players participating (presented in order based upon their elo rating) are:Viswanathan Anand (the current World chess champion whose elo rating is 2811 second-highest-rated player in the World), Levon Aronian ( with an elo rating of 2802 currently the third-highest-rated player in the World), GM Vladimir Kramnik whose elo of 2800 make him the fourth-highest-rated player in the November 2011 FIDE ratings list, GM Vassily Ivanchuk, who is the sixth-highest-rated player in the World with an elo of 2775, GM Sergey Karjakin,who has an elo of 2763, Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura who is the tenth-highest-rated player in the World with an elo of 2758, GM Peter Svidler (elo 2755), GM Boris Gelfand (elo 2744), and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi (elo 2730) round out the field for the tournament. The time control for this event is: 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, 50 minutes for the next 20 moves, and 15 minutes for the rest of the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move one.
Here are the results from round one of the tournament:
Magnus Carlsen Ian Nepomniachtchi Peter Svidler Sergey Karjakin Boris Gelfand
You can play through the moves of all the games for round one by going to the Chessviewer Deluxe Program at the bottom of this blog page.If you do not know how to use Chessviewer Deluxe then please visit the following page first: http://www.chessgames.com/cvdhelp.html
Alternatively you can go to the Chessdom.com website and play through the moves of all of these games using the ChessTempo program. The owner of Chessdom has also incorporated the use of a strong chess engine Stockfish, so you can see where these first round games were won by Nepomniachchi and Ivanchuk. To access the games at Chessdom please click on the following link:
http://www.chessdom.com/tal-memorial-2011-live
These are the pairings for round two of the event:
(the player on the left has the white pieces in the game):
Round 2: Thursday, November 17, 2011 | ||||||
Magnus Carlsen | Boris Gelfand | |||||
Sergey Karjakin | Hikaru Nakamura | |||||
Peter Svidler | Vishy Anand | |||||
Ian Nepomniachtchi | Vassily Ivanchuk | |||||
Levon Aronian | Vladimir Kramnik | |||||
Best wishes to all players for round 2!!
2011 FIDE Women's World Chess Championship
The 2010 FIDE Women's World chess championship has begun in Tirana, Albania. The match pits Indian player Humpy Koneru (seen on the left in the photo above) against Women's World Chess champion, Chinese phenom Hou Yifan, who is on the right in the photo above). Koneru, (who is 24 years of age) as an FIDE Elo rating of 2600 which makes her the second-highest rated female player in the World (behind Judit Polgar). Hou Yifan (who is 17 years old) has an Elo rating of 2578 (which makes her the 3rd-highest-rated female player in the World, behind Koneru and Polgar.
The first two games of this match have been already played in Tirana, with both games ending in draws.The match began this past Monday with Koneru having the advantage of the white pieces. She began the game by playing the move 1.d4 and after Yifan responsed with 1...Nf6 the game continued 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 Be7 5.Nf3 O-O 6.O-O (This opening is known as the Catalan opening. Tartakower first played it in a 1929 Barcelona tournament and then named it after the region.). When the game continued with Yifan playing the capture 6....dxc4 the "Open" variation of the Catalan was being played. To learn more about this opening please visit the following website by clicking on the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_Opening .The two players continued the game after 6...dxc4 for another 73 moves before agreeing on a draw. You can play through the game move by move and see analysis by GM Alejandro Ramirez, by clicking on the following link:
http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7673
The second game of the match was played in Tirana yesterday with Hou Yifan playing the white pieces. She began the game by playing 1.e4 and Koneru decided to play classically as black by responding with the move 1...e5. The game continued with Yifan playining 2.Nf3 and after Koneru played her next move of 2...Nf6 we could say that the opening was the Petrov (Petroff's) defense. You can read some information concerning game two and play through the game with analysis by GM Alejandro Ramiez by clicking on the following link:
http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7675
The third game of the match will be played tomorrow in Tirana.
It should be noted that this match is only ten games in length, with the first player to reach 5.5 points being declared the Women's World Chess Championshiip. The time control for these games is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the remainder of the game plus an increment of 30 seconds per move starting at move one.
If the two players are tied after 10 games, then they will play a sudden-death playoff consisting of 4 games at a time control of Game/25 plus a 10 second increment after each move.
I think that the match is only being held for 10 games is an outrage and ridiculous! Why has the FIDE decided that this important match is only going to have this short a duration? If the FIDE wanted to get more girls and women interested in playing chess, they should have held a longer match! Each game in the match is now extremely important and neither Koneru nor Hou Yifan can fall behind early in the match, because she will simply not have enough games to recover!
Best wishes to both players for tommorrow's third game!!
Source of image:http://www.chess.com/news/yifan-leads-rostov-grand-prix-8971
Kamis, 10 November 2011
Is it time to give up on tigers and pandas?
Photo:This photo was recently taken by a photographer positioned above
a beach in China.
To read an article at the www.independent.co.uk website entitled, "Is it time to give up on tigers and pandas?" please click on the highlighted words in this sentence.
What does this say about humans as a species if we are not able to conserve all of the life on this planet? How did we get to this point in our history? I truly believe that there are many too many humans on this planet. We have overpopulated areas of this planet which were not meant for us to inhabit. Of course some of you must have recently read in a newspaper or heard in a tv news broadcast that in the first week of this month of November, the human population on this planet exceeded 7 billion people! Will it come to a point that there are so many humans on this planet that we are going to engage in wars and other cruel confrontations in order to see which of us will be allowed to continue to live on the planet? Experts have been saying this type of situation may be inevitable! Why do people continue to have children on this planet, when there are so many children who have no families or parents? What is it about our species which causes us to lose focus of our behavior so badly that we are threatening the existence of all life on the planet? If scientists are telling us that certain species of animals and plants are too difficult or costly to preserve in the wild, then this suggests that we humans have gone way too far in our overpopulation of this planet and the use of its finite resources!
One ofthe fastest-growing areas (population wise) is Africa, where the population couldmore than triple from today's one-billion level! People in this area of the World I was able to learn of this fact by reading the
article, Alarm about population growth is not a new fear ,which you can read by clicking on the highlighted words in this sentence.Dr. M. Ray Perryman, who wrote this article, indicates that he believes the only way we are going to be able to deal with this kind of population of our species on the planet is through . the " hope that technology and productivity can help us solvethe other problems inherent in the next billions."
The big question Dr. Perryman is what if technology and productivity do not help us solve these problems? Then what?
As stated by the National Geographic Society:
"The challenge remains to find ever more efficient and less environmentally harmful ways to feed the world. Better management of soil—for example, by rotating crops—can reduce the need to clear more woodland for agriculture. Contour plowing diminishes water-polluting runoff. Some governments have limited or banned the use of DDT as an insecticide because of its cumulative effects in the food chain.
As the Earth’s population continues to mushroom, can ways be found to manage natural resources without causing ecological collapse? The most successful efforts are almost always the result of cooperation between government and industry. But as is true with all government regulation, laws tend to be effective only when they are understood and supported by the people who are affected: both producers and consumers.
In places where these vital conditions do not exist the environment suffers, and ultimately, so do people around the world." (source: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/eye/overpopulation/science.html )
"Environmentalists have long been concerned about the resources threatened by rapidly growing human populations, focusing on phenomenon such as deforestation, desertification, air pollution and global warming. But the worst-case scenario for people experiencing overpopulation, according to Lawrence Smith, president of the Population Institute, is a lack of fresh, clean water.
"If the water goes, the species goes," he said." (source:http://articles.cnn.com/2007-09-25/tech/overpopulation.overview_1_world-population-population-institute-population-estimates/2?_s=PM:TECH )
Humans have some serious issues to deal with concerning our population level and its impact on the ecosystems and other life on this planet! Will it come to a point that laws are necessary to prevent couples from having children in our World? This is one possible "solution" which some experts have suggested may be necessary in the future in order to save all live on the Planet! Let us hope that these solutions are still available to the World if and when definite concrete concerted efforts on the part of all countries on this planet are launched by our species!!
Selasa, 01 November 2011
Save shark from fin trade
Source of image:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Extant_Shark_Orders.svg/350px-Extant_Shark_Orders.svg.png
To read an article entitled, "Save shark from fin trade " which was written by a writer at the SunSentinel.com website please click on the highlighted words in this sentence. The reason I am telling you about this article is because of these statements from the article:
"No other animal on the planet has been wiped out by another species like sharks are being wiped out," Abernethy said, explaining that by extension, "our oceans are being wiped out."
"As an apex creature on the top of the food chain, sharks play a vital role in the balance of the ocean's ecosystem. As they die out, other marine life will follow, and the health of the world's oceans — covering the vast majority of the planet's surface — will crumble".
What does the first statement say about our species? Humans have known for some time that our over-killing of sharks would lead to severe consequences on this planet, yet some people go out every day and kill more sharks. I just watched a National Geographic video entitled, "Journey to Shark Eden" and in the video marine research scientists show that were sharks are in abundance the surrounding marine ecosystems are healthy and strong! Conversely, in areas of the World's oceans where sharks are no longer found, because they have been over-fished, and consequently few sharks exist, the surrounding ecosystem, including coral structures, and variety and number of species of marine animals, are literally dead! This scientific research proves that Humans have had a severe adverse effect on the Oceans and all the life within them, (especially the shark populations).
To those of you who think you can go out and kill as many sharks as you want to, guess again. If you selfishly continue this activity you are going to cause the animals known as producers to overpopulate this planet and these animals will use so much oxygen that there will be none left for the rest of life on the Planet! Then where are you going to live??
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