- Signatures: 8,594
- Goal: 10,000
- Deadline: 1-1-2008
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Petition Target: Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General
It's too barbaric to imagine, but it still happens. Fishermen catch a shark, slice off its fins, and then, cast it back into the water to die. This horrific practice is already prohibited in federal waters of the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Carribbean, but sharks need more protection from finning and other threats.
Your signature can encourage all countries to prepare and implement plans for shark conservation and management as recommended by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
This petition also implores these nations to ban the cruel, wasteful and destructive practice of shark finning in local and international waters. This practice wastes 95-99% of the animal and makes proper management extremely difficult.
Sharks play a critical role in ocean ecosystems. Their numbers are beginning to dwindle. Please help them today!!
Sign Now to encourage Ban Ki-Moon and the UN General Assembly to take action immediately to protect the shark populations across the globe and stop shark finning
| Number | Date | Prefix | Name | State | Country | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8,613 | 10:47 am PST, Feb 9 | Ms. | Kara Layton | Canada | With recent surfacing documentaries as Shark Water, Earthlings and The Cove, I am ashamed to say I am even part of the human race. Please inform everyone you know about this outrageous act of animal cruelty. | |
| 8,612 | 10:40 pm PST, Feb 7 | Joyce Chong | New York | United States | S | |
| 8,611 | 10:39 pm PST, Feb 7 | Mr. | Heriberto Estrada | Mexico | Extintion for a delicacy???? Only humans are able to do that.............. | |
| 8,610 | 11:35 am PST, Feb 5 | Ms. | Binell Martino | New Jersey | United States | |
| 8,609 | 2:08 pm PST, Feb 4 | Jillian Corbett | New York | United States | ||
| 8,608 | 3:55 pm PST, Feb 3 | Ms. | joanne frechette | Canada | I am ashamed that we as humans consider ourselves to be superior to other species. Sadly,we are proving to be barbaric and inhumane. Shark finning is incredibly cruel and harmful to our planet. | |
| 8,607 | 12:04 pm PST, Feb 2 | Mrs. | Kimm Howe | Denmark | Nothing justifies cruelty to animals, please help save our sharks. | |
| 8,606 | 5:56 pm PST, Feb 1 | Ms. | Jacque S | Virginia | United States | sharks a gental if you get to know them. just like people. |
| 8,605 | 10:36 am PST, Feb 1 | Mr. | Carl Holmes | United Kingdom | ||
| 8,604 | 7:07 am PST, Feb 1 | Anonymous | Canada | |||
| 8,603 | 8:13 am PST, Jan 31 | gabriella rusticali | Italy | |||
| 8,602 | 5:48 pm PST, Jan 30 | Mr. | John Wang | Australia | Shark finning is as cruel a practice as there is. Imagine someone cutting off your limbs just because they taste nice, and then just leave you in a bush to die. We as intelligent human beings should be above practices like that. What gives us the right to determine which species to use or die anyway. There is no excuse. If we cannot live harmoniously with the natural world then soon we will be facing our own demise, with no one else to blame. | |
| 8,601 | 11:15 am PST, Jan 30 | Ms. | Terria Bonella | Missouri | United States | Acts of cruelty and waste of these magnificent creatures must stop now! |
| 8,600 | 5:39 pm PST, Jan 28 | Lee Senden | Canada | How stupid do people have to be to go out and possibly wipe out a species like this. Let's use our brains and stop killing sharks for some stupid soup and start using farmed animals. There should at least be some kind of licensing system that allows you to "hunt" only so many sharks at a time just like hunting season in Canada and the United States. We need some laws and regulations on how many are allowed to be killed before we cause these beautiful creatures to be extinct. | ||
| 8,599 | 4:51 pm PST, Jan 28 | Ms. | Sarah Orbach | Colorado | United States | |
| 8,598 | 3:01 pm PST, Jan 28 | Ms. | Elmira Lockett | Louisiana | United States | |
| 8,597 | 7:52 am PST, Jan 28 | Mr. | Simon B | United Kingdom | We need to seriously stop this act of cruelty. It is devastating the marine ecosytem and will effect us soon enough. These fascinating species have been inhabitants of this planet for more than 400 million years and they are declining because some sick, selfish people want to make soup?! We need to take action NOW | |
| 8,596 | 3:49 am PST, Jan 28 | Ms. | Christina Kiar | Florida | United States | This is just an awful practice. The sharks are thrown back in the water to drown after they have been so violated. Please help |
| 8,595 | 10:23 am PST, Jan 26 | Mr. | john timoney | Ireland | ||
| 8,594 | 9:17 am PST, Jan 26 | Anonymous | California | United States | I saw bins full of shark fins in a store in china town in San Francisco and was horrified. Please make this act stop!! | |
| 8,593 | 11:08 am PST, Jan 25 | Espen Enger | Norway | |||
| 8,592 | 12:28 pm PST, Jan 22 | Bridget Brummel | Canada | |||
| 8,591 | 9:42 am PST, Jan 22 | Mr. | drlone lo | Malaysia | stop killing, you are killing the world and the human, because of the unbalance ecosystem. | |
| 8,590 | 2:25 am PST, Jan 22 | Mr. | Ed Trickett | United Kingdom | Disgusting and barbaric practice should be stopped! | |
| 8,589 | 12:16 am PST, Jan 22 | Mr. | Paul Flaxman | United Kingdom | ||
| 8,588 | 8:22 pm PST, Jan 20 | Ms. | Pink Pimlada | California | United States | |
| 8,587 | 7:50 pm PST, Jan 20 | Mr. | Saul Roux | Australia | Shark's are so vital for ocean ecosystem - to kill a shark is the collapse of ocean life - it is insanity and must be stopped. | |
| 8,586 | 6:09 pm PST, Jan 20 | Ms. | Lucette d'Angelique | Australia | wherever u can, wherever u go, remember its your home too...your oceans, your sharks, your life...shark extinction = human extinction | |
| 8,585 | 9:40 am PST, Jan 20 | Jennifer Parks | Oregon | United States | This cruelty must stop !!! | |
| 8,584 | 6:45 am PST, Jan 20 | Grace MacGuire | New York | United States | It always perplexes me how anyone could mame and kill. I think we have an epidemic of violence in the world and it is simply destroying the prospect of life on earth lasting much longer. If our government doesn't get it together and place bans and enforce them we are in for eminent spontaneous combustion. | |
| 8,583 | 4:27 am PST, Jan 17 | Mrs. | Filomena Lomba Viana | United Kingdom | ||
| 8,582 | 9:35 pm PST, Jan 16 | Ms. | Hazel Seymour | Canada | ||
| 8,581 | 10:18 am PST, Jan 16 | Ms. | Anonymous | Germany | Please stop the finning from shark. Save sharks for the ocean life | |
| 8,580 | 9:03 pm PST, Jan 14 | Caroline G | Texas | United States | ||
| 8,579 | 2:11 pm PST, Jan 14 | Mr. | Anonymous | United Kingdom | ||
| 8,578 | 9:30 pm PST, Jan 12 | elise svanberg | Australia | |||
| 8,577 | 2:50 pm PST, Jan 12 | Mr. | Colin Svanberg | Australia | Shark finning is an abhorrent practise and Sharkwater the documentary should be a mandatory inclusion on the curriculum for school students around the world. | |
| 8,576 | 9:38 am PST, Jan 12 | Mr. | Marius Igland | Norway | ||
| 8,575 | 6:04 pm PST, Jan 11 | Ms. | Kaitlyn MacInnis | Canada | ||
| 8,574 | 12:58 am PST, Jan 11 | Mr. | robert obst | Canada | Most cultural traditions were developed long before humankind had the knowledge that we do now of how much negative impact that we have had on our beautiful planet. Well, we know better now, so there are no more excuses. I implore all the young people of all the cultures which regularly consume sharks-fin soup to become conscientious world citizens and take action. It's up to you to break these out-dated traditions. Refuse to eat sharks-fin soup and ban the restaurants which serve it. Shame your parents, aunts, uncles and grand parents into giving up the practice of serving or ordering this wasteful dish, which provides very little value beyond that of a status symbol. | |
| 8,573 | 3:52 pm PST, Jan 10 | Anonymous | Canada | |||
| 8,572 | 11:08 pm PST, Jan 9 | Ms. | GITTE POULSEN | Denmark | ||
| 8,571 | 10:26 pm PST, Jan 9 | Isis Fitch | Australia | Stop this cruel practice, how could anyone do that to an animal, making it completely defencless, shame on you! | ||
| 8,570 | 2:39 pm PST, Jan 9 | Ms. | Victoria Ann | Canada | I am so glad that I found trying to help sharks as one of my hobbies. I have done a trumdeous amount of research on sharks and their natural habitat and foods. For my birthday, I am not asking for gifts, I am asking for a donation to the Humane Soceity to help save sharks. | |
| 8,569 | 1:55 pm PST, Jan 9 | Ms. | Elena Nyback | Norway | ||
| 8,568 | 10:02 am PST, Jan 9 | Mr. | Anonymous | Canada | Honestly people we needf to wake up and actually do something if we dont we will destroy sharks and ourselves. | |
| 8,567 | 9:55 am PST, Jan 9 | Ms. | Meagan Cisco | Canada | ||
| 8,566 | 3:50 am PST, Jan 9 | Ms. | nicolette ludolphi | Germany | ||
| 8,565 | 2:56 am PST, Jan 9 | Ms. | Lisa Tyrrell | United Kingdom | ||
| 8,564 | 2:49 am PST, Jan 9 | Ms. | Lesley Dombrow | Connecticut | United States | |
| 8,563 | 6:29 pm PST, Jan 8 | Mr. | Mark Tyner | New York | United States | This is a barbaric practice - like harvesting rhino horn and bear gall bladder. This practice has to stop - just like whaling. |
| 8,562 | 9:06 pm PST, Jan 7 | Ms. | Daniela D | Canada | I just saw sharkwater on youtube and was horrified! The glorious animal usually portrayed as a monster is being wiped off the face of the earth. THIS HAS TO BE STOPPED!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do something! | |
| 8,561 | 3:03 pm PST, Jan 7 | Anonymous | Florida | United States | That would be the worst death imaginable! Stop shark finning NOW!! | |
| 8,560 | 1:07 pm PST, Jan 6 | Noah Doughty | California | United States | Shark finning is a practice that needs to stop. It results in severe disruption of marine ecosystems, in addition to being cruel and wasteful | |
| 8,559 | 9:50 pm PST, Jan 5 | Mrs. | Alike Schroeder | Maldives | Save the sharks before it is too late!!! | |
| 8,558 | 3:56 pm PST, Jan 5 | Mr. | Thomas Trist | Canada | ||
| 8,557 | 9:04 pm PST, Jan 4 | Mrs. | Yliana Rojas | Canada | ||
| 8,556 | 3:13 pm PST, Jan 1 | Mr. | Tryggve Klingenberg | Sweden | ||
| 8,555 | 6:29 am PST, Dec 30 | Ms. | Anonymous | Sweden | ||
| 8,554 | 10:06 am PST, Dec 28 | Dr. | Mark Feldman | California | United States | PUT AN IMMEDIATE STOP TO THE CRUEL INHUMANE SHARK FINNING. THIS IS JUST ANOTHER HUMAN EXPLOITATION OF THE ANIMAL SPECIES! |
| 8,553 | 10:41 pm PST, Dec 26 | Mr. | michael gagliano | Canada | We need to stop slaughtering all the worlds sharks to make MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!! The world needs to stop being so selfish and greedy! WAKE UP!!!!!!!! | |
| 8,552 | 9:42 pm PST, Dec 23 | Mr. | Alfred Chekiee | Canada | Cruelty has no place in our world. | |
| 8,551 | 11:36 am PST, Dec 22 | Mrs. | Anna Caro Carvajal | France |
Establish a Global Ban on Shark Finning.
Petition Target: Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General
We, the undersigned, encourage all countries to prepare and implement plans for the conservation and management of sharks as recommended by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and we call on all countries to ban the wasteful and destructive practice of shark finning in local and international waters. This practice wastes 95-99% of the animal and makes proper management extremely difficult.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
We, the undersigned, encourage all countries to prepare and implement plans for the conservation and management of sharks as recommended by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and we call on all countries to ban the wasteful and destructive practice of shark finning in local and international waters. This practice wastes 95-99% of the animal and makes proper management extremely difficult.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
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