My very favorite pic by Marty, and one of my very favorite portraits of a Bull Shark, ever - click for detail!
Nice one!
Shark Savers have posted the following.
The links are mine.
A few FACTS to know about bull sharks:
- "...the idea that bull sharks are super juiced-up [with testosterone] compared to other animals just isn’t true." Read more here.
- Diving with large sharks is very popular with divers and as responsible eco-tourism is good for local economies and conservation, making sharks worth more alive than dead. Read more here.
- In Fiji, where bull sharks are LARGER, many individual sharks are known, named and studied; and YOU can adopt or name one to support shark conservation, globally. Read more here.
Could not agree more!
BUT - and yes there had to be a but... :)
Shark Savers' ecotourism page needs some re-vamping as it is suspiciously similar to that horrible tourism paper - or better, the tourism paper is suspiciously reminiscent of the Shark Savers page which pre-dates it!
As per my linked post, there needs to be mention of Fiji with its peer-reviewed USD 42.2 million, whereas somebody needs to read the Canary Islands paper and make a decision about whether it is even worth mentioning - incidentally, much like the estimate from the Bahamas that is not based on a scientific paper but on a report by a marketing group!
And then, there's the very thorny issue of assigning specific values to individual tourism Sharks - latest since Catlin et al, these numbers are highly suspect and should really not be used when advocating conservation.
Just saying.
The scientific cavalry is coming - and you don't wanna get caught in the crossfire!
1 comment:
Thanks for agreeing about bull sharks! :-)
Adopt, adopt, adopt...!
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