Posts Tagged ‘ overfishing ’

Extinguishing Extinction: Ending the Demand for Shark Fins

Aug 8th, 2014 | By
[photo credit: ocean.si.edu]

By Suzanne York, www.howmany.org All across the planet, species are at risk, due to humankind’s voracious appetite for practically every natural “resource.” The bounty of the oceans, for example, is being decimated at an unprecedented rate, and fish stocks are near collapse. Unfortunately, some of what people (or industrial trawlers) catch is completely wasted for
[continue reading…]