Sea Life Archives - Beauty Without Cruelty

Overfishing

“Every single species of large wild fish from the tropics to the poles has been fished so systematically over the past 50 years that just 10 percent of each type remains.” (Study by marine biologists Ransom Myers of Dalhousie University in Halifax and Boris Worm of the Institute for Marine

Dolphins and Tuna Fishing

DOLPHINS AND TUNA FISHING Dolphins and Yellowfin Tuna often swim together, and when Tuna is being hunted, Dolphins often suffer through what is known as Purse-Seine fishing. With this method, dolphins are surrounded by huge nets (easily 1km long and about 100 metres deep) as it is assumed the Tuna

Sharks

SHARKS Research indicates that about 100 million sharks are killed each year by humans — roughly 11,000 sharks every hour, around the clock. The number of humans who die from shark attacks average 5 to 6 a year! These numbers of shark deaths may even be on the low side,

The Intelligence of Cepholopods

CEPHALOPODS Without exception, all cephalopods are active predators. The ability to locate and capture prey often demands some sort of reasoning power, especially in the case of octopi and squid. These creatures exhibit a remarkable spatial learning capacity, navigational abilities, communication skills and predatory techniques. Octopi have been known to

Do Fish Feel Pain?

According to Dr. Calum Brown of Edinburgh University, “Fish are cunning, manipulative, cultured, socially intelligent creatures who do not deserve their reputation as being dim-witted.” The most commercially abused animals on the planet, other than chickens, are fish. Most don’t consider that fish are sensitive, sentient beings and recent

Dolphins in captivity

DOLPHINS IN CAPTIVITY There is also the issue of dolphins in captivity; dolphins are social and intelligent beings with advanced echolocation, which means they can ‘see’ for great distances. Locking dolphins in water tanks equivalent to dark dungeons has resulted in many dolphin suicides, where they just sink and stop

Shark Cage Diving

Whaling

Every year Japan hunts hundreds of whales in Antarctica under the guise of what it describes as a “scientific research programme”. As usual, the 2007/2008 whale slaughter season started with the declaration by Japan that they would hunt 50 humpback whales (an endangered species), as well as more than 900

Seal Killing

THE SEALS OF NAM BWC supports The Seals of Nam and Fur Free in their initiative to boycott Namibia as long as they continue to slaughter seals, including nursing pups for their fur, and in the case of the bulls, also for their penises for use in useless remedies, along