ges involving the same event. The incidents, captured in the 2007 award-winning documentarySharkwater, involved the Sea Shepherd ship the Ocean Warriorand the Costa Rican vessel theVaradero. The Sea Shepherd’s crew apprehended the Varadero for illegal shark finning under orders from Guatemalan authorities. While escorting the Varadero back to port, the Sea Shepherd vessel was confronted by a Guatemalan gunboat, dispatched to intercept the Ocean Warrior’s crew.The crew of the Varadero had falsely accused the Sea Shepherds of trying to kill them. Watson is currently in temporary
custody and a judge will decide later whether to formally place in detention pending extradition. Watson is being assisted in jail by European Parliament Vice President Daniel Cohn Bendit and the European deputy Jose Bove.

Click here to watch footage from Sharkwater. To purchase or rent Sharkwater in Canada, click here. To purchase or rent Sharkwater in the United States, click here. To purchase or rent Sharkwater in Germany, click here. For more news on this story see:http://www.ecorazzi.com/2012/05/13/sea-shepherds-paul-watson-arrested-in-germany/

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For more information on Sea Shepherd Conservation Society visit:http://www.seashepherd.org/

Sharkwater

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• Country: Canada
• Year: 2006
• Running time: 89 Minutes
• Genre: Documentary

Science on Screen series at SIFF Cinema

April 21 & 22, SIFF Cinema at the Film Center

Tickets: $4, SIFF Cinema passes and vouchers are valid at the box office.

This remarkable documentary captures the beauty of sharks with stunning underwater photography, and chronicles the harrowing above-water adventures of the renegade activists who are attempting to slow their extinction.Sharkwater celebrates these magnificent and misunderstood creatures, and warns that they could soon be wiped out due to human ignorance and greed.

Special introduction and discussion with shark experts! For more information on the film, a school study guide, and information on what can do to shop shark finning, visit the Sharkwater web site.

FilmsByFamilies Thematic Challenge: What would you do if you saw a shark? Make a film with your family about meeting a shark, real or not. We cannot wait to learn about your fantastical shark adventure! Films due by April 19. Find more information about FilmsByFamilies on the Films4Families Homepage
Science on Screen is an initiative of The Coolidge Corner Theatre with major support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Richard Branson thanked the City of Toronto yesterday for the recent ban on shark fin products and urged the federal government to ban any imports of shark fins to Canada. Branson became interested in protecting sharks after watching Rob Stewart‘s movie Sharkwater. In an article in the New York Times Sunday Review on January 15, 2012, Branson said: “The films I really enjoy are films with a meaning or purpose like Sharkwater, which explores the misunderstood world of sharks, and while beautify and thrilling, also exposes corruption and exploitation surrounding the world’s shark populations. It was such a powerful film that now I’m trying to stop shark finning around the globe.”

Rob Stewart was voted the top living person who made Toronto better this year for his work on the Toronto shark fin ban by The Grid, which dubbed him “David Suzuki with a Six Pack.”

Besides Toronto, in the past few months the Canadian cities of Oakville, Pickering, London, Newmarket, Brantford and Mississauga have passed bans on the sale and ownership of shark fin products. Sharkwater inspired Oregon and Hawaii to pass bans on shark fins and Leonardo DiCaprio helped get a ban installed in California. School children in Saipan and Guam successfully petitioned the government for a ban after viewing Sharkwater at their schools.

Richard Branson and actress Bo Derek were in Toronto to call for greater protection of Canada’s polar bears. Branson’s foundation Virgin Unite is leading the development of a Polar Bear Protection Act for Ontario.

More News: Richard Branson, Rob Stewart, Shark Fin, Sharkwater

Gordon Ramsay loves sharks, and this passion leads him on his most personal mission yet - to investigate the controversial dish, shark fin soup.
To understand more about the kings of the ocean, Gordon plunges in to swim with the deadly bull shark, in his scariest challenge to date.
It’s estimated that each year 100 million sharks are killed worldwide, and Gordon wants to find out if the slaughter is really necessary. Sharks are both terrifying and beautiful, but experts believe overfishing is threatening to drive a third of the world’s open ocean shark species to extinction.
Incredibly, some of the most threatened species remain untouched by international fishing regulations. What Gordon discovers on his journey leads him to campaign against the brutal and destructive shark fishing industry.

Help me save the sharks. Shark finning is a real problem throughout the world and it’s becoming worse with more and more people becoming afraid of them for something they are not.

savesharkfins
Australia

Fin Free Short Film from Maja Zonjic on Vimeo.

Fin Free supporter Maja Zonjic had a vision; to create a video about shark finning without any images of finning. The result? An inspiring short film celebrating the people who helped make six Ontario cities Fin Free.
The Fin Free film focuses on the positivity of the movement and the passion of the individuals supporting it, whilst raising awareness about the global issues facing sharks. Instead of focusing on bloody images of dead sharks, the film takes an alternative approach to the issue by focusing on the people who love sharks and have taken steps to protect them through personal projects, legislative action or campaign support.
Voiced by shark lovers of all ages, backgrounds, religions and races, the short film encourages other cities throughout the world to become Fin Free as well, to save our sharks, our oceans, and our planet.

Maja would like to thank producer and editor Roop Gill and score composer and audio editor Dave Ljubanovich for sharing her vision. Special thanks go out the the film’s stars - the Fin Free supporters from Brantford, Oakville, Mississauga, Toronto, Pickering, and London have banned the possession and sale of shark fins in their jurisdictions.
The Fin Free movement is spreading and it starts with all of us. Please share the film with your friends, family and teachers. Talk to people about finning and help CELEBRATE SHARKS everywhere! You can be a hero to a shark, today!

Here is one of the letters … Dear Shark Savers,

Why do we need sharks? I am Kyle and I am 10 years old. I think that you shouldn’t kill sharks because they are really not vicious creatures. They are actually important. Way too many sharks are being killed. Sharks also aren’t as dangerous as you are taught and told by the media and we depend on sharks for our existence. So many sharks are being killed that they are almost extinct.

Primarily, there are too many people killing sharks. The Great White shark is now an endangered species. Sharks were once the top predator, but now humans are. Sharks are the most endangered species in the ocean eco system. The world’s shark population has also declined by 90%. In an hour and a half 15,000 sharks are killed. Sharks aren’t as dangerous as you think.

Secondarily, sharks really aren’t as dangerous as you think. Sharks kill five people a year from blood loss not from being eaten, but elephants kill 100 people, and starvations kills 8,000,000! Crocodiles kill more people in one year than sharks do in 100 years. Soda pop machines kill more people than sharks do. Hammer Head sharks have never killed or bitten a person before. We need sharks in order for the human race to exist.

Overall, in order for the human race to exist we need sharks in our ocean. Sharks eat the fish that eat the Phytoplankton. Phytoplankton is important because it produces 70% of the oxygen that we breathe and it also absorbs 80% of the Carbon Dioxide (fossil fuels) from our environment. We depend on oxygen to breathe, so if we kill all of the sharks, we destroy the oxygen we breathe, so if we destroy the sharks, we destroy ourselves.

I am trying to persuade people to stick up for sharks, and to try to persuade other people not to kill them. So many sharks are being killed that they are going extinct. Sharks aren’t as dangerous as the media tells you. If you kill sharks, you kill yourself, your family and anything that breathes oxygen. So, you should buy the documentary Shark Water and check out sharkwater.com if you want to learn more.

Sincerely,

Kyle

The project has already been approved by the Local government and the Department of Fisheries and in early 2012 the proposal will be submitted to the Sabah State Government for approval. The proposal will be submitted by representatives of the Sabah NGO Borneo Conservancy and also the local Semporna Council.

Together with the submission of the proposal we hope to pass to the Sabah State government a petition with more than 10’000 names of marine enthusiasts around the world who are in favor of such a Shark Sanctuary.

This is where we need your help: We need you to please mention this proposal on either your Facebook site or your website as we need as many marine/shark enthusiasts as possible to put there name on this petition.

We basically need your help to spread the word and hopefully get the support we need to make this Shark Sanctuary succeed

If you can help in any way the Sharks in Sabah would be forever grateful!

Regards

Daniel

Semporna Shark Sanctuary

Target: United Nations
Sponsored by: Tim Jones
400 Million years of Evolution is being decimated for SOUP by the Chinese.

The Sharks are mostly caught illegally and dumped live back into the sea after their fins have been cut off.

This would never be allowed to happen to an animal on land but because it’s at sea and nobody can see it happening, nobody does anything about it!

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