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The Horrors of Shark Finning

4 The Love Of Animals

Shark fins are also dried and used in alternative medicine and ancient medical practices. While there are laws in place protecting endangered species of shark from shark finning, international waters are rarely regulated when it comes to the practice. The fins are then utilized in a wide variety of ways, especially in areas of Asia.

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KwaZulu-Natal

10,000 Birds

Even in the tropics there are few birds that excel some of our own in elegance and beauty of plumage and we have an unusually large number of species considering the smallness of the area they inhabit. ” (Woodward brothers, “Natal Birds”, 1899) The mighty Drakensberg Mountains run along the western boundary of KwaZulu-Natal province.