#stopthecull

Finished work an hour ago, and ready now at 10.15pm for #NightShift on my sketchbook, with the help of a little night cap 🌴🍹All in the lead up to watching the doco Envoy: Shark Cull in 2 days 😔 💔 🦈 ℹ️ https://watch.envoyfilm.com.au/

#Repost @juansharks (@get_repost) ・・・ Tag someone you would want to go swimming with 🦈💙🦈. Love these two white sharks holding pectoral fins. See sharks are capable of love and feelings. Lol, all fun aside, this is actually very rare behavior to have two white sharks this close to each other. Normally white sharks are considered more of a nomadic and solitary animal. However my good friend @abc4explore has documented strong social dynamics with juvenile white sharks in remote parts of Australia. Andrew Fox at @rodneyfoxsharkexpeditions has also shared photos with me of what he is calling white shark clans, groups of white sharks that come in at the same time in the Neptune islands. Also Dr Hoyos @amaukua has documented large female white sharks only letting one male come and feast on her kill out of a group white sharks all wanting to have a go at the kill in Guadalupe island. @oceanramsey has documented multiple white sharks using cooperative hunting methods. This photo here was taken in the depths at Guadalupe by the talented @david_valencia_photography There is so much that we don’t know about white sharks and their social system are far more complexed than we currently understand. The sad thing is that these animals are faced with extinct at the rate that humans are killing them and we need to focus our time and money on education verses killing these animals out fear or for sport or for their jaws or fins. #stopthecull #stopsharkfinning #stopsharkfining #ApexPredatorNotMonster @oneoceanconservation @oceanramsey @oneoceanresearch @oneoceandiving @savingjawsmovie https://www.instagram.com/p/BuVnRP6Fquq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=gxwsu3pgry14

Repost from @hunt_saboteurs - A total of 67,154 badgers have been slaughtered since the badger cull began in 2013. However, without the tireless work of saboteurs, this number would be far higher. A huge thank you goes out to everyone who took direct action against this horrific government policy. ___ #stopthecull #badger #huntsaboteurs #huntsaboteursassociation https://www.instagram.com/p/BrsMlX5D2LC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=k8kzx8roqi7x

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We’re always glad to learn we have supporters like @bells_blog out there that love sharks and our oceans as passionate as we do! 🦈💙🌊 Thank you for coming out with us! Everyone: Help spread the word! Even little acts like not using that plastic straw at your favorite coffee place help to keep our oceans clean and save our sharks and other marine life💙🦈 #Repost @bells_blog ・・・ I want to go back to this day so badly. . When I was around 8 years old I came to learn about the illegal fin trade. Alongside my sweet father’s support, I ran around and got a bunch of signatures in communities on Signal Mountain to send off to various companies and officials in China, to protest their consumption of shark fin soup. My motivation hasn’t quit since then to fight for these animals!! They are the garbage cans of the ocean; they predate on sick, injured, & dying prey. Which in turn keeps disease and sickness from spreading among marine life. . Most people have love for the ocean, but that love shouldn’t end as a luxurious vacation spot. Coastal areas and the life beneath the waves are some of the most delicate places on Earth, and your actions & consumer choices inland effect these areas too. . Happy weekend to everyone & keep the ocean in your thoughts when you shop, eat, & dispose of your garbage ❤️. . Mahalo 🌺. . . . . . . . . . . @oneoceandiving . @oneoceanconservation . @oneoceanglobal . @oceanramsey . @juansharks . . . 🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈. . . #hawaiistagram #savesharks #stopthecull #hawaii🌺 #hawaii🌴 #sharkconservation #oneoceandiving #sharks #sharkdiver #sharkdive #northshore #northshoreoahu #marinebiology #marinebiologist https://www.instagram.com/p/BrBK3Jjhly-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=10p69b44nazq6

Do you still think sharks are monsters? ... Or more like the cutest thing you’ve seen today? A baby black tip reef shark coming to say hi to @juansharks 😍 ・・・ Baby black tip reef shark meets toes for his 1st time and I still have all of my toes. #smartbaby Really considering how much a splashing humans looks like a hurt injured animal swimming or surfing that sharks don’t make more mistaken Identity bites. With only an average of 8 to 10 deaths from sharks a year, humans have really no reason to fear sharks and sharks have every reason to fear us,as humans we kill 100 million sharks each year. #stopthecull #stopthefear #cagethefear #ApexPredatorsNotMonster #helpsavesharks #sharethetruth #coexist #oneocean #onechance https://www.instagram.com/p/BpFl0mVhOtS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=oclnnniw0te2

Wise words from @mermaid_kayleigh regarding Australia’s senseless recent decision to reinstate a shark cull #STOPTHECULL #ItsTheirOcean #Repost @mermaid_kayleigh ・・・ Four tiger sharks have been killed recently in response to shark attacks in the Whitsundays. Guess what... they have no idea if these tigers are responsible for any of the attacks. Likely, they are not the same sharks as this species is known to move around quite far quite fast. In the past culling sharks has been proven ineffective as the sharks responsible for bites move on and new sharks come in to these areas. While it is incredibly sad and terrifying for the people involved, killing sharks when they injure humans is not the answer. These animals aren’t purposely targeting humans as a food source. The opposite is actually true. When they realize the human isn’t the food source they sought after, they typically leave. Sharks are just doing their jobs in the food web. We need predators to keep the trophic levels below them healthy and functioning. Australia, you’re destroying your natural resources out of fear. Shark nets and drum lines are killing your sharks and countless more marine life indiscriminately. You could be profiting off your live, healthy sharks by running eco-tours, benefitting the local economy and educating the public. Check out the last two thoughtful posts by @thelifeofrileynz on how that money should be spent, researching and learning more about sharks in this area to prevent adverse human interactions. This is exactly why we need more shark conservationists out there, standing together, on the same team (instead of wasting time bashing one another purely from an ego standpoint). More people loving sharks, swimming with sharks, and speaking up for them. This is why I’ll never stop taking anyone I’m able to diving with sharks @oneoceandiving. The fight will never be over for these incredible and misunderstood creatures. ✊🏼 #savesharks #sharkIDNikki @oneoceansharks photo taken on my @axisgo https://www.instagram.com/p/BoIP8CchZJk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1aifmhp8rb0d8

Repost By lincolnhuntsaboteurs: We can't get enough of Derbyshire so instead of coming back we decided to camp over! Was great to have new people out with us and we covered a lot of ground and found some amazing setts. These setts made us appreciate our friends the Badgers even more and made us more dedicated to smashing this ridiculous cull. #lincolnhuntsabs #lincolnhuntsaboteurs #huntsabs #huntsaboteurs #huntsabssavelives #huntsaboteursassociation #wildlife #protectwildlife #badgers #badgercull #stopthecull #stopthebadgercull #britishwildlife #picoftheday #photography #photooftheday #help #voice