Rob Stewart is the award-winning director of the multi-award winning feature documentary Sharkwater. The film, which challenges the age-old image of sharks as human-eaters, is helping to carve a new truth for sharks and elevate the reality of their plight to us all. Rob has brought attention to the urgent issue of declining shark populations worldwide. Since 1970 we have lost 90% of the planet's sharks, owing to over-fishing sharks for shark fin soup and catching them as by-catch. Take Action now to help spread shark realities.
"If the public knew that we depend on the oceans for survival, yet we're destroying them every day in unprecedented ways, they would take a stand, just as they spoke out for whales and for holes in the ozone layer." – Rob Stewart, Sharkwater director, guest blogger
• Host the ultimate Shark Awareness Party by screening Sharkwater with a group of your closest friends.
• Follow Team Sharkwateron Twitter
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• Twitter Contest Alert! Enter the GreenHeroes.tv Twitter contest to win a DVD copy of Sharkwater!
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• Pledge to tell your friends about the shark slaughter, and ask 5 of your friends to do the same.
• Petition to ban shark finning and reduce the number of sharks slaughtered each year merely for their fins.
• Sign the petition to ban shark finning: www.finfreetoronto.com
• Tell 10 friends that with an unregulated shark fin trade, nearly 100 million sharks were killed last year alone, mostly for their fins. UNEP estimates that multiple shark populations have collapsed by 75-90% over only 15 years.
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I honestly used to be terrified of sharks - thank you Jaws. I watched Rob's film about a month ago, and now I'm in love with sharks! The shark fin soup issue is a huge issue, and governments must take a stand on it.