Sunday, December 7, 2008

Your Call 120808 Global Commons -- Whales & Sharks

How is the environment for whales and shark changing? On the next Your Call, we continue our series on the global commons, with a discussion about the state of whales and sharks. According to the United Nations about ten million sharks are killed each year for their valuable fins. Whales are also facing ever-increasing dangers despite the 20-year ban on commercial whaling. So what's been done to save these sacred and precious creatures? And can we save them? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests: David McGuire, conservation filmmaker, a field associate of the California Academy of Sciences and a shark advocate.

Douglas Long, Chief Curator, Natural Sciences at Oakland Museum of California. formerly chair of the Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy at the California Academy of Sciences, he is currently teaches in the Department of Biology at Saint Mary's College in Moraga.

Stan Minasian, a naturalist with the Oceanic Society.

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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 8, 2008 at 4:22 PM

    Interesting Program:

    Thanks, for additional information regarding local marine conservation research and advocacy check out our websites.

    http://www.pelagic.org/research/index.html

    http://www.pelagic.org/

    http://www.pelagic.org/topp/topp.html

    Think globally, take action locally.

    Cheers,
    Sean


    S.R. Van Sommeran
    Executive Director/CEO
    The Pelagic Shark Research Foundation
    831-459-9346
    psrf@pelagic.org
    WWW.PELAGIC.ORG
    Santa Cruz California
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  2. UnknownDecember 9, 2008 at 11:06 AM

    Great show and I was very happy to be involved.

    The paragraph says ten million sharks killed each year. If only. Rose had it right- the United Nations FAO estimate was 100million sharks killed each year.
    More recently a scientist estimated 19-73 million sharks are being killed for fins alone.
    Whatever the number- it is unsustainable.

    See the film Sharks Stewards of the Reef about threats to sharks and what we can do to protect them: www.sharkstewards.com

    The film screens regularly at the San Francisco Aqaurium of the Bay.

    Support a healthy ocean ethic and our local marine sanctuaries.

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