For The Love Of Sushi

[bust]

The super trawler sure knows how to catch a fish or two.

Pretty disturbing actually.......

 

[Flashermac]

Got to catch all the fish before there aren't any more left.

[khunsanuk]

Hi,

 

These ships should be banned.

 

Sanuk!

[Flashermac]

Those ships should be outlawed and sunk on sight!

[StoneSoup]

This is the one that finally got my attention:

 

https://pbs.twimg.co...AciZn.jpg:large

 

The caption read: "Armed rangers in Sudan guard earth's last male northern white rhino".

 

Think about that. Assholes have killed all but THE LAST FUCKING MALE SPECIMEN of a majestic animal, to satisfy some ridiculous superstition.

 

Then I also saw: http://imgur.com/gallery/ZSYbG5i

[khunsanuk]

Hi,

 

There are a lot of animals in this world, but only man is truly a beast

 

Sanuk!

[Guest]

" Then I also saw: http://imgur.com/gallery/ZSYbG5i "

 

This is a terrible trade, always attracting the lowest of human, to hunt and kill, only because the financial rewards are worth more than gold. With each rhino's death and and the deminishing numbers only increase's the value...

 

http://www.earthtouc...hino-horn-trade

 

Over the past several years, South Africa's rhino poaching problem has turned into a full-blown crisis. Last year, the country lost more than a thousand rhinos to poachers, their hacked-off horns destined mostly for consumption in Asia as an ingredient in various traditional medicines and to supply demand from wealthy consumers in Vietnam, where possession of horn is increasingly seen as a symbol of status. With World Rhino Day approaching on 22 September, our Top 10 this week is dedicated to highlighting some of the horn trade's most shocking figures.

 

The price of rhinoceros horn has increased to around $60,000 per kilogram, according to a recent report.

 

$60,000 is the estimated per-kilogram worth of rhino horn on the black market, according to a report by US-based strategy and policy advisory firm Dalberg. That sizeable sum makes it a commodity that's much more lucrative than gold and platinum – and more valuable on the black market than diamonds and cocaine. The price tag is even more shocking when you consider its rapid upsurge in recent years: in 2006, the value stood at around $760 The same Dalberg report puts the total value of illicit wildlife trafficking (excluding fisheries and timber) as between US$7.8 billion and US$10 billion per year.

 

If poaching levels continue to accelerate, Africa's remaining rhino populations may become extinct in the wild within just 20 years, according to estimates included in a paper published in the journal Science last year.