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Essay / Sharks and Conservation - 892
Everyone knows the famous opening song from Spielberg's famous 1975 film Jaws, which depicts the chaos that sharks can cause. Since then, films featuring the sharks' ever-violent personalities have been popular in the media. They are considered the face of ocean brutality, from biting people's arms to causing turbulence at beach parties. Little is the world aware of the dangers that we humans pose to these natural predators of the oceans. Sharks have been on this earth for almost 450 billion years. To put this into perspective, the first modern humans date back about 60,000 years (“Our Mission: Save the Sharks and Mantas”). Since then, humans and sharks have evolved into the predatory mammals they are today. Due to the rapid development of humans, civilization and technology, humans have not been able to fully understand the behaviors of sharks, although the motivations of other human celebrities have been easy to understand and decipher , because shark attacks are increasingly televised and sharks have been. being known to be more of a "threat" to humans, shark research foundations, such as the Shark Research Institute and the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation, were created to help understand the fact that more than 100 million sharks are each killed. year, and there is a counter at the Bite-Back Shark and Marine Conservation site. As more time is spent on the home page, the number on the counter steadily increases, indicating how many sharks are being culled in the coming year (“ ). Bite-Back – Sharks and Marine Conservation). Even with research showing that sharks are valuable to the ocean and vulnerable, there are people who think otherwise ("The pelagic shark...... middle of paper ...... conservation." Bite -Back - Shark and Marine Conservation. nd Web January 4, 2014. .Dunlop, Fuchsia. Home - Shark Research Institute. "Shark Research Institute. Np, nd Web. January 4, 2014. "Our mission: saving sharks and mantas." Shark Savers. Np, nd Web. January 4, 2014. "The Pelagic Shark Research. Foundation. "The Pelagic Shark Research Foundation. Np, nd Web. January 4, 2014. “Shark Fin Soup”. Shark Fin Soup, nd Web. “The Shark Trust – Home”. Home Np, nd Web January 4.. 2014. .