The images after the jump are from here and first came to our attention in the Guardian story (click the headline image to the left), which follows a recent interest we have taken in these mercilessly misunderstood and under appreciated wild creatures. Seth’s recent post begins a new vein in our conversation about marine conservation (for
that wait for 2/2 in that series).
It is not always bad news out there. More than plenty, to be sure; but enough respite to give hope, thanks to well-rounded journalistic enterprises, which we think of as cousins of social enterprise: The mayor of a town on Réunion Island has been forced to back down from a decision to pay fishermen to hunt and kill sharks because it contravenes French conservation law. On Monday 30 July, Thierry Robert MP, mayor of St Leu commune near Trois-Bassins, where a bull shark was believed to have been responsible for the death of a surfer last week, made the decision to “act to safeguard the security of goods and people of his town” by authorising fishing of the bull shark “by any means, including spearfishing, day and night”.
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