Sunday, 24 February 2013

Manta Rays need our HELP!!

Manta Rays started being targeting heavily for their gills maybe a year ago and are still being seriously threatened.
 The gills are being used as an antitoxin in the Chinese medicine industry.
It is devastating the Manta population and the most backwards thing about it is that Manta Rays bring in thousands of dollars in the scuba diving tourism industry and their gills barely anything for the fishermen who catch them.

How could anyone want to hurt these beautiful creatures?

Manta rays feeding - (BBC- news)




Manta rays laid out, dead.  (Sharksavers)

Younger generation getting wider view on sharks

My aunt who lives in Toronto is always letting me know if something about sharks pops up.
She recently said that there had been a few children's programmes about sharks and they had been given a positive reputation in the shows.

In Myth-Busters a popular show on discovery channel did a show on shark myths and towards the end one of the main people on the show had a message regarding how humans kill and treat sharks.

The other show was for younger kids but as people say you need to share your ideas with the younger generation because they haven't formed concrete opinions like adults have. It is called Wild Kratts and they had an episode about sharks and shark fin soup.