🦈White sharks in South Africa 🇿🇦have all but disappeared from their hotspots. Why?

18 of 21 white sharks tagged since 2019 have disappeared. Nearly 90% in under 4 years. Where have they gone?

🧵 from this research:

& article: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
theconversation.com/great-white-sh… White sharks are being killed:

🦈 28 (average) white sharks were killed yearly by drumlines & shark nets (between 1978 & 2018).

🪝 40 (conservative estimate) white sharks killed per year (2008 - 2019) by the Demersal shark longline fishery.

theconversation.com/great-white-sh…

This is horrific.

A huge pod of white-sided dolphins have been brutally slaughtered in the Faroe Islands this evening.

Read more here facebook.com/BluePlanetSoc/… Hideously cruel, possibly unsustainable, irresponsible.

Read more here facebook.com/BluePlanetSoc/… 📷 Palli Ásbjørnsson Justesen

5 wildlife-killing balloons in every free @ComicRelief fundraising pack + option to buy more. Plastic pollution on a monumental scale and an embarrassing lack of environmental awareness from an organisation that should know better shop.comicrelief.com/categories/fun… #RedFaceDay #RedNoseDay There must be dozens of celebrities that campaign for the environment and fund-raise for @comicrelief. Somebody please have a word about the balloons. @LennyHenry @ferrifrump @JuliaBradbury @ChrisGPackham @BillOddie @Dawn_French #balloonsblow

Let's hit Japan hard and make them rethink their decision to leave the IWC and resume whaling. Join us in protesting the @RugbyWC_2019 and @Tokyo2020. 💥🐋 @iwc_int @rugbyworldcup @Olympics @rugbyworldcupjp @japan @JapanGov @JPN_PMO @AbeShinzo