Great Whites are listed as VULNERABLE in Australia and are also protected by the International Convention of Migratory Species but Western Australia did an end run around those protections. Sound familiar wolf warriors?
We’re not the only brutes in the world killing predators. Western Australia has adopted a “Catch and Kill” policy to slay Great Whites, Tiger and Bull sharks, over 3 cm in length, in some crazy scheme to “safeguard beachgoers”. I’m sure the 3cm or under sharks will automatically know not to get hooked by a drumline. What the hell? All this because shark attacks increased from 1 per year to 2-3 in all of Western Australia, from 2010-2013. That’s how the WA government is justifying this outrageous scheme? Hey, here’s an idea, if there are sharks in the water, stay out! Does the ocean belong to humans? Are sharks not allowed to live in their home because humans like to splash around in the surf? Besides, baking in the sun at the beach causes premature aging of the skin, staying away will keep the wrinkles at bay.
“ENVIRONMENTAL activists warned public anger is building over Western Australia’s catch-and-kill shark policy which snared a large shark in the state’s southwest at the weekend just hours after baited drumlines were set.
A contracted fisherman pulled a shark more than 3m long from a drumline off Meelup Beach shortly after 7am yesterday.t
The shark was then shot in its head up to four times and towed out to sea where it was dumped.
Early reports indicated it was a tiger shark but late yesterday The Australian was told it was believed to have been a bull shark.”….The Australian
Sharks are apex predators, vital to healthy oceans but we’re losing them. 100 million sharks are killed each year and most of the slaughter is directly linked to finning. The sharks are caught, their fins cut off and then they’re thrown back in the ocean to suffer and die. And all this to feed the “shark fin soup“> demand.
“100 million sharks are killed each year-by longlines, by “sport” fishermen, or by a barbaric practice known as shark finning. Hooked sharks are hauled onto boats; their fins are sliced off while they are still alive. These helpless animals are then tossed back into the ocean where, unable to swim without their fins, they sink towards the bottom and die an agonizing death.”…Sea Shepherd
Sharks are under tremendous pressure just to exist. Now the WA government is making it even harder for them? You can add Western Australia to your “do not visit” list!
If they’re trying to increase tourism there by slaughtering sharks, then they’ve made a huge miscalculation. Boycott Western Australia until they stop their “Catch and Kill” shark policy.
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Contact Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt in Western Australia. He authorized this slaughter. Tell him killing sharks isn’t going to entice tourists to Western Australia but quite the opposite.
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Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt
Phone: (02) 6277 2276 or (03) 5979 3188
Email: Greg.Hunt.MP@aph.gov.au
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Environment Minister allows Western Australia to kill sharks to protect swimmers
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Sharks caught hours after WA drumlines set
Shark supporters were given more ammunition against Western Australia’s controversial catch-and-kill policy, after undersized sharks were hooked and released within hours of baited drumlines being set off Perth beaches.
Using large hooks that the state government said would not catch smaller sharks, Fisheries officers placed bait off five of Perth’s busiest beaches at Friday’s first light.
Read more: http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/21190639/richard-branson-lashes-wa-shark-killing/
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I hope the whole f&%$*(#g human race is flushed down the toilet. The sooner the better.
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Yet there are still people who blindly believe that Australia is an animal paradise. I am ashamed of my country…
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Yes, I know the feeling John but we can take heart there are good people, like you, in Australia, that are totally against this. It looks like another case of the government not listening to or caring what the people think!
For the wolves, For the wild ones,
Nabeki
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i will join you there, I am ashamed to say i am australian, we need abbot out of govt asap, there will be nothing left by the time he is out
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Excuse me!!!!! It’s the sharks home not ours. Stay out of the bloody water.
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Has the entire world gone nuts? And they are dumping dredge sediment in the Great Barrier reef too. It’s official now; nothing is sacred. Check out this reasoning:
“This is natural sand and seabed materials … it’s what’s already there,” Fish said in an interview last month. “We’re just relocating it from one spot to another spot, in a like-per-like situation.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/plan-dump-sediment-great-barrier-reef-okd-22308204
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So embarrassing to be human sometimes. Most times, actually.
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Is it any wonder why I am climate change’s biggest cheerleader! Go C-L-I-M-A-T-E!!!!
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I see that stupidity in politicians in not just a U.S. idea. They give people here the whole sale rights to slaughter wolves here . And now the insanity has been found in other countries.
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Reblogged this on Wolf Is My Soul.
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I have always wanted to see Perth. Guess not now. Why don’t they just stay out of the water and take a nice walk on the beach? That’s so cruel!
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THIS WORLD IS SO EVIL , I DONT KNOW ONE SPECIES OF ANIMAL THAT IS SAFE FROM THE VILE PLAGUE OF HUMANS.SHAME ON THEM !!
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Every animal on the earth is in danger of abuse or being killed by the animal that walks upright on two legs called human.
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Steve Erwin, would have never let this happen!!!!
At his memorial his father said “Don’t mourn for Steve,he is out of pain. Mourn for the animals,for they have lost their champion”
And lost him they have!
My head hurts, my heart aches.
Christy
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Death figures released: 66 sharks were caught and none of them were great whites, 17 sharks killed all of them were relatively small, 9 died on hooks. 40 trapped and then released. Western Australian Government calls the progam a success and plans to resume culling next summer.
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