Sharks
Eat'm up!!!
More than 450 types of sharks exist in the world today and thousands of shark species have come and gone over the course of millions of years!
Threats to Sharks - Humans
One
of the largest threats that
sharks face in the 21st century is finning. Finning
is the inhumane practice of hacking off the shark's fins and
throwing its still living body back into the sea. The sharks will
either bleed to death or drown. Shark fins are in high demand due to
the popularity of the Asian delicacy, shark fin soup. Estimates of
sharks killed (mostly for their fins) range from
63 to 273 million
per year.
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