Western Australia - Great News!

Lets assume that this GW is smiling! Pic by Amos Nachoum.

From one of the articles.

He said Cabinet had also ruled out a major cull of white sharks to reduce numbers, any seal culling or relocation program, the creation of beach pools, and drum line programs to control white shark numbers.

Great!
Don't like the talk about evaluating Shark nets but I guess this is now and that is then, and we'll maybe have to address it if and when it eventuates.
So, let's rejoice!

More here and here - victory lap here.

Tip o' hat: the Saffron Pimpernel.

Juliet - excellent, once again!

Killed for nothing - Shark cull in Sharm - pic via BushWarriors

Thank you Juliet!
If Shark conservation has indeed gone mainstream, it is in large part owing to the relentless efforts of Mrs Eilperin who continues to crank out excellent pro-Shark media (this is just a small sample) in the most prestigious and widely read publications.

Case in point, this article in the Washington Post.
Starting from re-branding Shark attacks as Shark strikes, this is smart, well documented and compelling reading that once again helps put things into the right perspective. The pictures are by Christine Shepard, like Madi Pip a young passionate and extremely promising Shark media lady with a bright future ahead of her.

As always, required reading!

Excellent Interview by Barry Bruce!

Check this out.
As we continue to be bombarded by a deluge of self professed Shark experts with pavlovian on-camera reflexes, Barry Bruce of CSIRO stands out as extremely knowledgeable, reasoned and highly compelling. This is one of Australia's foremost researchers of Great Whites who has collected numerous tracks that show how Australia's GWs migrate north along the Eastern seaboard and to WA at specific times of the year, possibly following their prey.
Barry is also the man behind the call for less Shark diving operators and Shark diving days in Neptune Island, South Australia, this based on objective data gathered during years of research into Australia's Great Whites, video here.
Andrew Fox agrees so it's probably OK.

But I'm digressing as always.
Enjoy the interview - this is as good as it gets.



Further compelling statements against the Shark cull in WA

• By Dr. Rachel Robbins of the Fox Shark Research Foundation
• By John Silberberg
• By Jennifer Welsh on Live Science
• By John West on CNN
  
• By the victim's family
• If you care: petition here.
  

Tip o' hat: the Dorsal Fin.

Australia - kill those Great Whites!

Australia - back to the 50ies

Well, what can I say.
There has been another fatal Shark attack off Perth and it very much looks like the authorities have resolved to order a Shark cull.
It will achieve nothing - but it will likely placate the public and be the lesser evil when compared to other measures like anti-Shark legislation. No don't get me wrong, I hate it - but with people like this idiot stirring the pot, some kind of a political knee-jerk reaction was all but inevitable.
Talk about a timely post by Patric!

Anyway, not good and very much q.e.d.- alas!

PS much the same, much less polite here.