Because Quote by Barbara Block Download Open image “Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.” — Barbara Block ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Because Being Driven Eat Extinction Fins Flesh People Sharks Want
Globally sharks have been killed for their fins, for their cartilage, for their livers, for their meat. But mostly what has driven some species… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
I think sharks are beautiful creatures, and I don't think we should stop going in the ocean because of them. You drive down the… — Bethany Hamilton Copy Share Image
Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain. — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts,… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
The real terror of beholding sharks feeding is that that may be all there is to life. A razor-toothed paragon of the will to… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
We are already perilously close to killing off the top of the oceanic food chain - with catastrophic consequences that we can't begin to… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
“outside the boundaries of its own skin—these things had driven the species to the edge of destruction. Worse, this one organism threatened the survival… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but youre more likely to be killed… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
“Scientists believe that sharks are one of the oldest species of animals still in existence. Nature built them as perfect predators. Perfect killing machines. Nature hasn't had to revise or update them much. They were built right the first time. Dolphins are very different. Scientists say that millions of years ago, dolphins were land animals. Sea mammals not very different… — K.A. Applegate Copy Share
We still have the illusion that the ocean will recover. That even if we do have to lose sharks, people don't understand why this… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Sharks are just evil bastards. I'm quite happy if all the sharks just went, because they eat fish and us. And we need the… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Great white sharks are iconic top predators that are basically keeping the entire food web of our ocean in check. They regulate populations of… — Narin Raksmei PhD Copy Share Image
I want to build a wired ocean that helps us take back the seas from poachers and illegal fishers. To do this, we need… — Barbara Block Copy Share Image
I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature. — Barbara Block Copy Share Image
Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of… — Barbara Block Copy Share Image
White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to… — Barbara Block Copy Share Image
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