- Signatures: 8,536
- Goal: 10,000
- Deadline: 1-1-2008
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8,555 | 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 | ||
| 8,550 | 9:14 am PST, Dec 22 | Mr. | Chris Mckellar | United Kingdom | Sharks are to important to let perish | |
| 8,549 | 6:03 am PST, Dec 20 | Mr. | Michael Beasley | Australia | ||
| 8,548 | 5:44 am PST, Dec 19 | Ms. | Kristin Otto | United States Minor Outlying Islands | ||
| 8,547 | 4:37 am PST, Dec 19 | Ms. | heidi wollum | Sweden | ||
| 8,546 | 8:53 pm PST, Dec 17 | Katie Szczepanski | New Jersey | United States | ||
| 8,545 | 10:18 am PST, Dec 15 | Ms. | Rio Samos | Texas | United States | |
| 8,544 | 6:16 pm PST, Dec 14 | Mr. | Kristian Christiansen | Utah | United States | Sharks are one of the most important animals in the ocean's ecosystem. When they dwindle the largest ecosystem on the planet suffers. Shark finning is not only cruel, it is one of the most irresponsible and ecologically damaging fishing practice today. |
| 8,543 | 10:33 am PST, Dec 14 | Mrs. | Natalia Drobko | Ukraine | ||
| 8,542 | 8:26 pm PST, Dec 11 | Mrs. | ginamarie Colorio | Minnesota | United States | |
| 8,541 | 6:05 pm PST, Dec 11 | Stacy Geraghty | Canada | |||
| 8,540 | 2:08 pm PST, Dec 11 | Mrs. | Molly Greger | Norway | ||
| 8,539 | 10:34 am PST, Dec 11 | Örjan Åkerborg | Sweden | |||
| 8,538 | 1:47 pm PST, Dec 10 | Ms. | Katarina Björkqvist | Finland | BAN IT!!! BAN IT!! BAN IT!! BAN IT!!! | |
| 8,537 | 1:43 am PST, Dec 10 | Mrs. | Sara Collis | Australia | ||
| 8,536 | 6:06 pm PST, Dec 9 | Alison Cormack | Canada | This is terrible! not only is the shark being finned for no reason other then people greed, they are dying a long and painful death because of it. | ||
| 8,535 | 5:18 pm PST, Dec 9 | Ms. | Adriana Readinger | Venezuela | ||
| 8,534 | 1:17 pm PST, Dec 9 | Ms. | Maxine Holloway | United Kingdom | ||
| 8,533 | 10:11 am PST, Dec 9 | Ms. | Aimee Osmulski | Florida | United States | Oh, if the tables were turned!! |
| 8,532 | 3:20 pm PST, Dec 8 | Ms. | SHANNON BURNSIDE | Canada | ||
| 8,531 | 3:02 pm PST, Dec 8 | Ms. | Tina Amiri | Canada | ||
| 8,530 | 3:36 am PST, Dec 8 | Ms. | Ingeborg Kooiman | Netherlands | ||
| 8,529 | 6:25 pm PST, Dec 7 | Mr. | Mason Rauch | Arizona | United States | |
| 8,528 | 6:34 am PST, Dec 7 | Anonymous | Sweden | |||
| 8,527 | 12:05 pm PST, Dec 6 | Ms. | Justine Schultes | Canada | ||
| 8,526 | 1:08 am PST, Dec 6 | Anonymous | Sweden | |||
| 8,525 | 2:08 pm PST, Dec 5 | Ms. | Jessica Magnusson | Sweden | Such majestic animals are being exterminated because of our greed, fear and ignorance; this must stop! | |
| 8,524 | 10:42 am PST, Dec 5 | Mr. | Mitchell Roush | West Virginia | United States | |
| 8,523 | 9:50 pm PST, Dec 4 | Ms. | Kayla Tait | Canada | ||
| 8,522 | 10:15 am PST, Dec 4 | Carina Lindal | Norway | |||
| 8,521 | 8:50 am PST, Dec 4 | Ms. | Anna Gunn | Tennessee | United States | |
| 8,520 | 4:30 pm PST, Dec 3 | Ms. | Anonymous | Canada | ||
| 8,519 | 1:48 pm PST, Dec 3 | Ms. | ragni torvanger | Norway | ||
| 8,518 | 1:30 pm PST, Dec 3 | Anonymous | Canada | A creature that has been around for millions of years shouldn't be wiped out by our greed. | ||
| 8,517 | 11:39 am PST, Dec 3 | Theresa MacKenzie | Canada | Please ban the importing of shark fins in Canada. Sharks are beautiflu creatures who are of utmost importance to our ecosystem. They are killed inhumanely and unnecessarily. | ||
| 8,516 | 2:08 pm PST, Dec 1 | Carmen CV | Canada | Stop | ||
| 8,515 | 2:04 pm PST, Dec 1 | Ms. | Tianna Tanaka | Canada | ||
| 8,514 | 2:03 pm PST, Dec 1 | Jacob Movold | Canada | |||
| 8,513 | 2:03 pm PST, Dec 1 | Anonymous | Canada | STOP THE FISHING MEANEES FORM FINNTNG THE CUTE SHARKS!!!!!!! | ||
| 8,512 | 2:02 pm PST, Dec 1 | Mr. | Robin Smrz | Canada | Shark finning is cruel and should be banned in every single country in the world as soon as insanely possible. And shark finning people should drop dead. | |
| 8,511 | 1:56 pm PST, Dec 1 | Melissa Tranter | Canada | Our class watched sharkwater the other day and half the class was almost crying. shark finning is terrible | ||
| 8,510 | 12:18 pm PST, Dec 1 | Ms. | Vanditta Diwakar | Fiji | ||
| 8,509 | 2:44 pm PST, Nov 30 | Mr. | Immo A. Inkinen | Finland | ||
| 8,508 | 7:26 am PST, Nov 30 | Steve Onisto | Canada | I want my children to dive with sharks and know that these magnificant creatures still exist in our waters. They play an important role in the maintenance of a healthy ecosystem. Without them, the oceans will die... We need to change attitudes in the minds of people that sharks are needed and critical to our survival as well... We need to educate people so that cultural norms can be altered and give the species a fighting chance. | ||
| 8,507 | 11:18 pm PST, Nov 29 | Ms. | Brittany Dolan | New York | United States | |
| 8,506 | 11:05 pm PST, Nov 29 | Mr. | Mark Thomson | Canada | This is crucial, not just for the sake of sharks, but for our oceanic ecosystems, upon which we all depend. Act now and stop being influenced by monetary concerns. The human economy will survive and recover. The sharks, however, will likely not survive much longer if we continue slaughtering them at this rate. A global ban is needed urgently. | |
| 8,505 | 10:23 pm PST, Nov 29 | Mr. | Brian Yannutz | Hawaii | United States | |
| 8,504 | 2:27 am PST, Nov 28 | ingrid jouette-nagati | United Arab Emirates | |||
| 8,503 | 6:11 pm PST, Nov 27 | Daryl Reimer | Canada | |||
| 8,502 | 2:00 pm PST, Nov 27 | Mr. | D Scott | Arkansas | United States | Please take whatever political and moral actions necessary to stop these atrocities to the creatures of Yahweh. |
| 8,501 | 5:26 pm PST, Nov 26 | Ms. | Anonymous | Arizona | United States |
Establish a Global Ban on Shark Finning.
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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