Saving SHARKS

Celebrate the Sea Marine Imagery Festival the most exciting event of the sea in 2007

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If the earth were only a few feet in diameter floating a few feet above a field somewhere, people would come from everywhere to marvel at it. People would walk around it, marvelling at its big seas of water, its little seas, and the water floating between the seas. People would marvel at the bumps on it, and the holes in it, and they would marvel at the very thin layer of gas surrounding it, and the water suspended in the gas. The people would marvel at all the creatures walking around the surface of the ball, and they would be in awe as they watch all those amazing creatures in the seas. They will also see that everywhere on earth the seas are being polluted with industrial waste and garbage. The seas are exposed to sedimentation cause by erosion from land and drain of its resources by unsustainable harvest. 

 Very quickly they would realise that the seas are connected, the thin layer of gas are connected to the water and all life in the ball are connected and absolutely dependent on those seas of water for sustenance. Life on that ball cannot possibly be healthy if those seas of water are unhealthy. Then people would then declare the Seas sacred and they would protect it with all their might so that it would not be hurt. The ball would be the greatest wonder known, and the people would come to pray for the seas, to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know beauty, and to wonder how it could be. People would love it and defend it with their lives, because they would somehow know that their lives, their own survival, could be nothing without it.

 If the earth were only a few feet in diameter…

 The animal and people on the earth cannot possibly be survived if our seas are contaminated - we depend on the seas for nourishment, the seas are the cradles of life. More than 3/4 of coastal pollution originates on land from coastal development and industry wastes, automobile exhaust and carelessness. Oil spills, sewage dumping and over-fishing also threaten open waters. The alarming degradation of our seas and its animal threatens the core of our very existence. The problem is now advanced through out the entire planet; species are fast becoming extinct, many even before they are discovered. Coral reefs are dying, many rivers are contaminated and the seas under constant threat from industrial contaminants. Coral reefs are the oases of the sea and is now the world's most fragile and endangered ecosystems. In the last few decades, mankind has destroyed over 35 million acres of coral reefs. Reefs of 93 countries have been damaged by human activity.  If the present rate of destruction continues, scientists from WWF and many research organizations concur by 2020, within our lifetime - almost 80 % of our world’s coral reef will be damaged beyond repair.