Are We That Dumb?

Are we that dumb? to drive ourselves to the brink of extinction of our species ? Imagine this . When God made all the animals in the world . Imagine the animals we have now is only 5% of the previous numbers of species of animals . What made us different? A little skinny ape with no super hearing , lack of muscles and less athletic than any other animal on Earth . What made us superiors of this world? Its that thing that is in our skull that invented something called the future . We could think logically and realise that what we do no will affect the future . Somewhere along the line or evolution we seem to have forgotten that. We have a tendency to see the future for our work ,how to make the most profit , how to get that girl . But when it comes to the environment we grab whatever we can . We dont think what happens . When people tell us the world will end if we keep doing this all we do is block out the fact that we are driving ourselves to the brink of extinction .

Whales are very low in population
Sharks numbers have declined ATLEAST 90% the past decade with over 100million sharks killed each year
Whalesharks number are declining

We mess up the predators, WE mess up the system .
70% of the oxygen in our air comes from planktons in water did you know that?
Deforestation is not our biggest problem , its the polutions of the sea

Chinese people think drinking sharksfins gives strength and is good for the health because they think sharks cannot get sick.
DO you know sharks canget cancer?
Do you know that eating sharksfin has bad effects on your health rather thatn good? Sharks have mercury due to our polution .

Sharks finning . Stop .

Sea Sheperd

I am a total supporter of Sea Sheperd to save the whales . Although their tactics and ways of stopping whale hunting has been questioned to be ethical or not i believe everything they do is for a good reason . Japanese have been killing whales for food consumption although it is banned to eat whales as it is an endangered species such as the Humpback whale and the blue whales especially in the Southern Hemisphere . To undercut the ban on whale hunting Japanese vessels have painted the word RESEARCH on the whaling ships and claim to take up whales for research which actually allowed but they dont research the whale . They harpoon it and say its for research , Transfer it to the processing vessel to be cut into pieces and is sold in markets trhoughout Japan LEGALLY as the ban states that any part of a whales cannot go to waste after being caught for RESEARCH . Humpback whale population have been estimated to be under 40000 from a number of 125000 before whaling began . The Japanese whaling team consists of 5 ships , 2 of which ar harpooning ships , 2 processing ships and 1 storage . The sea sheperds have been intefeering with their whaling acts and have estimated to save about 304 whales .
It stared back in 2007 and by April 2008 they have slaughtered more than 1000 whales .

Many people may say 'Oh well its part of life and humans have to eat ' . 'We kill cows and chickens why isnt that wrong then' / Well
1st thing = can you breed whales smart ass? NO i dont think so ..
2nd thing = Whales are endangered especially humpback and blue whales .
3rd thing= You can breed cows and chicken


People nowadays all people think is 'Oh its part of life we have to live' But yet alot of you dotn realise how your actions affect the ecosystem . some people go ' Oh we need to fish some up ' I agree totally over population is something we have to avoid but we are OVER fishing everything out . people reply 'Oh its part of life' . what logic is that? The world land space was made only to feed 4 billion people but now we have 9 billion people living this earth and the population size is still increasing . if i say ' lets kill 5 billion of you ' would you be happy? NO! you'd go ' THATS INSANE AND HEARTLESS' well thats what you guys are saying for turtle eggs , sharks fin and whales . Screw you .

私達がべきであるものを知っているするか。 私達は捕鯨容器にすべての鮫のfinners、カメの卵のcolectorsおよびwhalersを集めるべきで、船にそれらのいまいましい自爆犯を置き、そしてそれらからたわごとを吹く。 それはそれらにレッスンを教える。 停止捕鯨に私を結合しなさい。 私達は絶滅からクジラ、鮫およびカメを救ってもいい。


Stop whaling , sharks finning and turtle egg collecting . We can save the world one step at a time .

Sharks Matter

I came across this blogger and he stands to amaze me . This is something i feel e all MUST know to change our perspective on sharks . Here is the FOUR things EVERYONE needs to know by Sharkmatter.

http://southernfriedscience.com/2009/05/10/four-things-everyone-needs-to-know-about-sharks/

SO alot maybe lazy to click the link and all so here is part of his post .

1) Sharks do not represent a serious threat to human beings.

Yes, some people have died as a result of shark encounters, and any human death is a tragedy, but it is important to keep in mind the relative risk of a shark attack. Of the over 500 species of sharks worldwide, fewer than a dozen have ever been known to kill a human. In an average year, over 650,000 Americans die as a result of heart disease, giving me a 1 in 5 chance of dying of heart disease in my lifetime. In an average year, over 550,000 Americans die from cancer, giving me a 1 in 7 chance of dying from cancer in my lifetime. In an average year, over 40,000 Americans die in car accidents, giving me a 1 in 84 chance of dying in a car accident in my lifetime. In an average year, 1 American dies from a shark attack, giving me a 1 in 3,748,067 chance of dying from a shark attack in my lifetime.

Again, any human death is a tragedy, but when you have a 1 in 5 chance of dying from heart disease and a 1 in 4 million chance of dying from a shark attack, should we really be so concerned about the threat to us that sharks represent?

Millions of Americans spend time in the oceans each year. Sharks have been evolving incredible sensory systems, part of what makes them such incredible hunters, for over 400 million years. They can also swim a great deal faster than we can. If they wanted to attack humans, a lot more than one American a year would be killed by a shark. Sharks are simply not a serious threat to us.

2) Sharks are important to the health of the oceans.

Without them, many ocean ecosystems, including several that are vital to the economy, are in danger of collapsing. This collapse would have devastating ecological and economic consequences… and some of these consequences have already started to happen. In addition to providing natural selection pressure and allowing only the fittest to survive by preying upon the weakest, sickest, and smallest fish, sharks are also important to marine ecosystems in other ways.

In the Outer Banks of North Carolina, tiger shark populations have declined over 97% since 1972. One of their prey items, the cownose ray, has skyrocketed in population without tiger sharks to eat them. These cownose rays eat scallops… and with so many more rays, the scallop population of the Outer Banks has all but collapsed. This is bad news not only for the numerous other organisms that eat scallops, but also for the thousands of people who used to work as scallop fisherman.

A similar event took place in Tasmania. Massive declines in shark populations led to an increase in octopus populations, since there are so many fewer sharks preying on them. These octopus eat, among other things, Tasmanian rock lobsters. The Tasmanian rock lobster fishery is now almost completely gone.

A more complex shark decline related ecosystem destabilization, this one taking place in coral reefs, has led to a decrease in algae-grazing parrotfish populations… and a huge increase in algae. Algae in the Caribbean is starting to take over reefs, killing coral. Coral reefs are home to thousands of unique species of fish and invertebrates, and they generate billions in ecotourism dollars worldwide. This algae takeover is one of the biggest threats facing coral reefs, and food chain destabilization as a result of shark population declines is one of the biggest causes of algae takeover. Losses of sharks are directly related to the destruction of coral reefs.

3) Sharks are in serious trouble.

Many shark species have declined in population over 90% in the last 25 years.

Bycatch is one of the biggest threats facing sharks. While fishing for other species, sharks are caught by accident and are killed.

Another major threat facing sharks is finning. Sharks of many species are caught, their fins are cut off, and the still-living rest of the shark (far less valuable than the fin) is dumped overboard to bleed to death or drown. This brutal and unsustainable practice provides material for shark fin soup, a Chinese delicacy associated with celebration. The fins, which are made of cartilage, add absolutely no flavor or nutritional value whatsoever to the soup. By some estimates, over 100 million sharks a year are killed for their fins.

4)Human beings are better off with sharks than we are without sharks, and we are in danger of losing them forever… but you can help!

The absolute most important thing that you can do to help, you are already doing just by reading this. Learn all you can about sharks, their ecological and economic importance, and the threats they face. Pass on what you have learned to others. Public education will help far more sharks than these guys ever will. The more people that know about this, the better off sharks will be!

I hope this helps to change your prespective on sharks . They are magnificent creatures and need to be conserved =) Stop the finning . Say no to sharks fin .

Indonesia

Watch the vids alot of you guys may like it and maybe interested to learn to dive =)
Although know for its abundance of seafood its reefs and sea life still lives to amaze me . It brings a smile to my face that there is still reefs out there that seem untouched and are worthy to compete with Sipadan .
Indonesia is my next destination i wish to go to =)
From small creatures or macro diving to large creatures such as whale sharks Indonesia has it all =)











I hope i get to go there soon =) before the reefs are bombed and sea life fished out for dinner plates =)