Swimming with the Sharks Weddings are one of the most important events in a person’s life. It is the day one will finally marry the person they truly love and spend the rest of their life with them, yet this thought alone sometimes is not enough to satisfy the excitement of the night, and people wish to make their weddings and honeymoons more interesting than the rest. Judy and Jason Lau, from Canada, decided on swimming with sharks for their honeymoon, but this unusual choice was not just for excitement, but part of a bigger conservation movement that has greatly impacted the shark population. It is very common for shark-fin soup to be served in traditional Chinese weddings, but this shark fin soup is the cause for most of shark finning,
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Established by Claudia Li, an extremely passionate Chinese-Canadian woman, Shark Truth has prevented more than 2,800 sharks from being eaten in less than three years through a very interesting, and smart, contest. This contest is targeted at Canadian couples, and the only thing they have to do to enter it is to not serve shark-fin soups at their weddings, which are also now known as “Free- Fin Weddings.” Those that are selected as the winners are awarded with a free honeymoon to swim with the sharks in Mexico, which is definitely a night they will not …show more content…
Everything is linked in an environment. If sharks stopped existing then there would be chaos in the ocean. They are the top of the food chain and keep fish populations in balance which also keeps the rest of the food webs in the ocean balanced. Not only that, but they eat the weakest of the prey populations which helps prevent disease from spreading to the other fishes. Sharks have existed for more than 450 million years. They existed through the life and extinction of the dinosaurs, but they are labeled as vulnerable today and it is because of us. It would be terrible if the extinction of these amazing animals would have to be simply because of a selfish human delicacy we desire. That is why organizations like Shark Truth are needed, so we can continue to educate people about the importance and beauty of sharks, and understand that the true danger isn’t them, it’s
Established by Claudia Li, an extremely passionate Chinese-Canadian woman, Shark Truth has prevented more than 2,800 sharks from being eaten in less than three years through a very interesting, and smart, contest. This contest is targeted at Canadian couples, and the only thing they have to do to enter it is to not serve shark-fin soups at their weddings, which are also now known as “Free- Fin Weddings.” Those that are selected as the winners are awarded with a free honeymoon to swim with the sharks in Mexico, which is definitely a night they will not …show more content…
Everything is linked in an environment. If sharks stopped existing then there would be chaos in the ocean. They are the top of the food chain and keep fish populations in balance which also keeps the rest of the food webs in the ocean balanced. Not only that, but they eat the weakest of the prey populations which helps prevent disease from spreading to the other fishes. Sharks have existed for more than 450 million years. They existed through the life and extinction of the dinosaurs, but they are labeled as vulnerable today and it is because of us. It would be terrible if the extinction of these amazing animals would have to be simply because of a selfish human delicacy we desire. That is why organizations like Shark Truth are needed, so we can continue to educate people about the importance and beauty of sharks, and understand that the true danger isn’t them, it’s