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The Horrors of Shark Finning

4 The Love Of Animals

The following is a guest post about the horrors of shark finning. Sharks are a regular feature on television channels like the Discovery Channel, with even entire weeks devoted to this majestic sea creature. Shark finning is the practice of removing fins from live sharks with sharp tools, and then tossing the shark back into the ocean.

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Sometimes you get the bird…

10,000 Birds

Sharks cruise off the city’s beaches, and just yesterday a deadly species of snake was found in a suburban railway station. This is a roundabout way of introducing Australia’s most dangerous bird, because of course a country where an agonizing death lurk in every lake, river or law has a bird that can you kill you too.

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