The title is no understatement. For conservationists it is sickening. How much cocaine is being snorted by humans across the planet daily? We don’t know but we do know that the number of people dying from cocaine poisoning in the United States has been steadily …
I was struck today in reading The Times that “No one has ever been able to pinpoint where they are born, nor has anyone seen a newborn white shark alive”. The words are those of Carlos Gauna, a shark photographer. He regards his photograph of …
This picture on Twitter of a hammerhead shark with their dorsal fin missing as it has been amputated by cruel fishermen selling shark fins to the shark fin soup businesses makes me thoroughly sick of humankind. Frankly, when I see this sort of picture, I …
Location: Cape Cod, Massachusetts. How did they know it was chasing a seagull and got too excited! And are sharks sometimes this careless? Was the shark ill? Or did they lose their bearings because of sonar used by submarines? A lot of questions and no …
Perhaps we have the impression that sharks are nasty predators that attack people at any opportunity. Sharks are certainly persecuted by humans. They are endangered actually mainly because of the insatiable appetite in Asia for shark find soup. It is wiping the species out. But …
There is an extraordinary story in The Times today of a notorious pair of killer whales (orcas) which killed 17 sharks in one day. You might know that orcas have a taste for liver. They only ate the livers of the 17 sharks. Just gaping …
Australian Paul de Gelder is a former Navy bomb disposal diver. He said: “[I] had my life changed in a very violent, painful and dramatic way.” He lives in California and was training in Sydney Harbour in February 2009 when he was attacked by a …
NEWS AND OPINION: Most species of shark and rays living on coral reefs are facing extinction according to a study conducted by Dr Samantha Sherman and colleagues of Simon Fraser University in Canada. She said: “Many species that we thought of as common are declining …
