Every creature on the Earth is part of the web of life. I pray for the awakening of all humankind to the wonder and gifts of all species, around the Earth. The oceans once teemed with life, but our taking from the oceans with powerful fishing technologies must be changed - so that we become stewards of the oceans, not plunderers.
The miraculous Earth, her oceans, her forests, her dry and wet lands, and all her creatures that have evolved over thousands and millions of years: we must preserve her, care for her, be no longer separate from her. We cannot deplete the Earth but that we also deplete ourselves and future generations.
Our course can change, if we choose to change it. "When the people lead, the leaders will follow" said Mahatma Gandhi.
Below is article about the many endangered species of sharks, alarming not only for the species' but also for the myriad ocean ecosystems that depend on them in the web of life upon which all species in those ocean webs depend.
NY Times Article:
Shark Populations Are Crashing, With a ‘Very Small Window’ to Avert Disaster
Oceanic sharks and rays have declined more than 70 percent since 1970, mainly because of overfishing, according to a new study.
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