They were overhunted in the 18th and 19th centuries and their population dropped from 300,000 worldwide to only a few thousand in Alaska. (Cohn, 1998) The 1911 International Fur Seal Treaty saved the otters and other marine mammals from extinction. (Bodkin 2002) The sea otter population is very important to many parts of the ocean’s ecosystem because they help keep sea urchin populations at a safe level. Too many sea urchins mean decreased kelp beds. Beyond the overhunting, there are many other threats to the sea otter population.
As Burke states, “for many countries this practice is happening on the other side of the world, but for Australia, this is immediately to our south” . Due to this factor that Australia is in close proximity of the area being affected, Australia has an obligation to protect what is nearest to it. There are 5 species of whale that are located around the Southern Pacific in which Australia is responsible for, “including the humpback and blue whales.” In June 2011, Japanese whalers launched a research whaling deeming the expedition necessary to prove that commercial whaling did not affect the ecosystem. The three vessels that underwent the expedition were faced by the Sea Shepherd, an anti-whaling environmental activist group who ‘hurled paint and stink bombs’ . The fleet, led by Nisshin Maru, were only able to catch a fifth of their planned quota due to the harassment of the anti-whaler activists.
After so many years and incidents, the captivity of killer whales or orcas (Orcinus orca) merely for entertainment purposes should be prohibited. The limitation of space and most important the deprivation of freedom modify the behavior of orcas making them aggressive, even depressive and prone to hurt themselves and the humans who interact with them. With a brain four times larger than the human brain, the killer whales are among the most intelligent species in the world (Kirby 2). Studies have shown that their brains are more complex than human’s. The orcas’ brains have an “extra” part that makes them considerable more emotional.
Contaminating these waters will not only harm the wildlife, but it will kill a source of food that is so dominant in Newfoundland, and also will harm hundreds of people’s jobs. Oil spills cause a lot of problems in our ocean and to our marine life. Everywhere you look people are trying to create a more sustainable ocean, and this is hard to do when there is so much pollution and threats to our environment all around us. We, as youth need to step up and try to make a change and help to make our province a better place. We can help thousands of animals survive by taking action against oil drilling in our
It is also a problem that does not have many possible solutions, causing it to be the most detrimental to harp seals. Economically the elimination of harp seal hunting will affect the lives of commercial hunters and those who purchase the pelts. This issue is not solely negative as the Canadian Government plans to compensate the hunters with new professional training. Lastly this issue could eventually lead to the extinction of a
That was just mind blowing to me and it showed why this business of shark finning is such a huge business. Also the movie talks about line fishing which I have never heard of before this video. Line fishing is when a fishing boat takes miles and miles of fishing line full of baited hooks and tosses it out in the water for fish, sharks, turtles, or just any type of sea creature to bit or get tangled in and die. Line fishing is illegal in most countries but there is such a huge business in it a lot of countries will not do anything to stop the fishermen from doing it. For example when Rob and the crew of the Sea Shepard were trying to stop the Varadera from line fishing the Varadera crew was let off the hook by the Costa Rica government even though they were illegally fishing, but the Sea Shepard was charged with 7 counts of attempted murder.
The other issue that was highlighted in this movie was the rights that gay people had, or you could say lack of rights that they had. In the movie Milk, countless times you heard the word faggot being used and homosexuals being belittled by certain comments in the way of being threatened to be killed just because of their sexuality. Even throughout this movie police officers were no better in the way of condoning this behavior by putting down homosexuals also. The issue of discrimination against gays was most certainly portrayed negatively in this movie, only for the fact of it was trying to get the point across that discrimination against homosexuals is not ok. I think I both agree and disagree with how they portrayed certain issues in this movie.
In fact, there are more places where they can be seen in the wild than places where they can be seen in captivity. In addition, places where there are wild marine mammals do not charge high entry fees. For example, many people now view dolphins from the cliffs and beaches of southern Cyprus, and along the coast of western Australia, swimming with friendly dolphins is becoming increasingly popular. The second important reason why marine parks should be closed is that scientific research conducted in parks is useful only for understanding captive animals and is not suitable for learning about animals in the wild. The biology of dolphins and whales changes in marine park conditions.
SeaWorld rebutted against Blackfish’s stories on the heartbreaking capturing of Orcas in the wild by SeaWorld with the statement in their new commercial “SeaWorld does not capture killer whales in the wild. Due to the groundbreaking success of our research in marine mammal reproduction, we haven’t collected a killer whale from the wild in 35 years.” In some underhanded way this is true. the company that runs SeaWorld, Blackstone group, has not captured orca whales for the purpose of display at SeaWorld since 1985, but continued to buy Orcas from third party capturers. In addition SeaWorld insists that their whales life spans of 35 years or so is equivalent to that of wild orcas. First of all, the median life span of a SeaWorld orca is only 9 years.
The death penalty has been viewed by many people as wrong, while still other people see the death penalty to be acceptable in today s society. People who oppose the death penalty complain that it is morally wrong, and the majority of the people who receive the death penalty are wrongfully treated, either due to race, poverty, or even gender. Even though many people oppose the death penalty, there are still people, such as myself, who feel that the death penalty should be accepted in the United States today. Whether it is to reduce overcrowding in prisons, or to cut down on serious crimes, I