teresa toroDec 4, 2022
Sheril Kirshenbaum

Despite how sharks are portrayed in movies and reality tv, here’s what to remember 🦈

Sharks kill 5-10 humans each year.

Humans kill ~100 million sharks each year (and that’s a conservative estimate).

Many species are now threatened with extinction.

Don’t fear sharks. Protect them. #SharedPlanet

Dec 3, 2022 at 3:59pmMetatext
Show threadSudhirDec 3, 2022
@Sheril Killing any creation of God is a crime. Why not co-exist in harmony with all creations of God?🤔
Any convincing reason?🤔
Show threadBlake GirardotDec 3, 2022

@Sheril Thank you for the post, sadly it gives me the chance to share one of the best infographics I have ever seen:

https://i.huffpost.com/gen/1059154/original.jpg

Show threadPaul 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦🇵🇸Dec 5, 2022
@BlakeGirardot @Sheril 😲
Show threadSirpushalotDec 3, 2022
@Sheril also. Fear humans
Show threadCascadianprepperDec 3, 2022
@Sheril Can I fear them and Protect them?
Show threadNickDec 3, 2022
@Sheril don't cows kill more people per year than sharks?
Show threadpwtulleyDec 3, 2022
@Nick Ya, but they’ve got better PR people
Show threadAdrian Bhagat ⓋDec 3, 2022
@Sheril Wonder if you know about this film my friend made?
https://www.facebook.com/SharksIDW
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Show threadHopperDec 3, 2022
@Sheril I still hate em tho
Show threadPatrickleeDec 3, 2022
@Sheril sharks have been known to be grateful and even bring other sharks to humans who have aided them. Sharks aren't the problem.
Show threadTopKnotDec 3, 2022

@Sheril

"Irrational Fears is what drives most killing perpetuated by humans. What drives those irrational fears seems to be people afraid of losing power and authority over other people." ~ Not Spock

Show threadLes LoreDec 3, 2022

@Sheril yes! so many perceived as apex predators like orca, wolves, sea otters, & others are vulnerable because of the antapex predator...

humans

we're like toxic pond scum

Show threadMJLevyMDDec 3, 2022
@Sheril ever see this acct on IG? https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ch_nr7KvUre/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Ocean Ramsey #OceanRamsey on Instagram: "*Please don’t attempt* I love sharks, and that means keeping a high healthy level of respect for their capabilities and important role as apex predators❤️🦈. I want to help people to overcome their fear of sharks so they will help protect them, but a high healthy level of respect while working in water with them should remain with a constant awareness of their behavior and proximity. . Care, compassion, and understanding are fueled by opportunities for connection, and professional safety guides have an important responsibility to develop their skills before being responsible for others under their care in order to help facilitate positive interactions by recognizing or responding to potentially conflicting body language and behavior from both species. . I love Roxy, I wish I could fix her broken jaw and remove those bolts of human impact, but despite I’ve been lucky enough to dive with her for over a decade I’ll always keep up a level of readiness for the mana she and other sharks are capable of showing. . If you’re interested in diving with sharks PLEASE DO, there is nothing like the presence of a shark🦈❤️🦈, but for larger predatory species always go with an experienced and professionally trained guide. ⭐️🦈The intensively trained expert safety team @oneoceandiving takes people out 7 days a week if you’re living or visiting #Oahu ❤️🦈 Shark populations are being wiped out. Like them or not, want to dive with them or not, the world needs sharks. Please speak up to protect them from wasteful killing. Shot on my @gopro out with @oneoceandiving ❤️🦈❤️ Have a wonderful night/day Sorry I haven’t figured out how to edit the text on screen to say @juansharks Nautilis wedding ring by @mauidiversjewelry ❤️ White @freestylewatches tucked under my suit ⏱👀 #Shark #sharks #sharkidroxy #sharknose #sharksnoit #handtoshark #boop #Discoversharks #oahuhawaii #sharkdiving #oceanconservation #sharksafetydiver #sharkconservationist #conservation This is Not a #SharkAttack the reality is sharks are attacked by humans daily, killed for wasteful things like #sharkfinsoup and #sharkfishing which is what led to Roxy’s jaw being broken"

Ocean Ramsey #OceanRamsey shared a post on Instagram: "*Please don’t attempt* I love sharks, and that means keeping a high healthy level of respect for their capabilities and important role as apex predators❤️🦈. I want to help people to overcome their fear of sharks so they will help protect them, but a high healthy level of respect while working in water with them should remain with a constant awareness of their behavior and proximity. . Care, compassion, and understanding are fueled by opportunities for connection, and professional safety guides have an important responsibility to develop their skills before being responsible for others under their care in order to help facilitate positive interactions by recognizing or responding to potentially conflicting body language and behavior from both species. . I love Roxy, I wish I could fix her broken jaw and remove those bolts of human impact, but despite I’ve been lucky enough to dive with her for over a decade I’ll always keep up a level of readiness for the mana she and other sharks are capable of showing. . If you’re interested in diving with sharks PLEASE DO, there is nothing like the presence of a shark🦈❤️🦈, but for larger predatory species always go with an experienced and professionally trained guide. ⭐️🦈The intensively trained expert safety team @oneoceandiving takes people out 7 days a week if you’re living or visiting #Oahu ❤️🦈 Shark populations are being wiped out. Like them or not, want to dive with them or not, the world needs sharks. Please speak up to protect them from wasteful killing. Shot on my @gopro out with @oneoceandiving ❤️🦈❤️ Have a wonderful night/day Sorry I haven’t figured out how to edit the text on screen to say @juansharks Nautilis wedding ring by @mauidiversjewelry ❤️ White @freestylewatches tucked under my suit ⏱👀 #Shark #sharks #sharkidroxy #sharknose #sharksnoit #handtoshark #boop #Discoversharks #oahuhawaii #sharkdiving #oceanconservation #sharksafetydiver #sharkconservationist #conservation This is Not a #SharkAttack the reality is sharks are attacked by humans daily, killed for wasteful things like #sharkfinsoup and #sharkfishing which is what led to Roxy’s jaw being broken". Follow their account to see 1765 posts.

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Show threadBarry Phillips SmithDec 3, 2022
@Sheril Humans also kill more humans than sharks. Just saying. Perspective.
Show threadSueDDec 3, 2022
@Sheril I fear humans waaaaaay more than sharks (I grew up in Cape Town…home of the great white ❤️)
Show threadrufoDec 3, 2022
@Sheril need an estimate of how many humans kill humans to add to this small number by sharks— guns, war, vehicles, maskless.
Show threadCubeOfCheeseDec 3, 2022
@Sheril I'm surprised there are hundreds of millions of sharks to begin with!
Show threadDorean PaxoralesDec 3, 2022
@Sheril may we protect *and* fear them?
Show threadKristin BaileyDec 3, 2022
@Sheril what a friendly smile
Show threadPankhurst2Dec 3, 2022

@Sheril

Exactly. We are the problem. We are the virus.

Show threadDeborahMaeveDec 3, 2022
@Sheril and we need more pics of smiling #sharks. Nice one!
Show threadstop genocide punch nazisDec 3, 2022
@Sheril Also, sharks are older than the Pleiades.
Show threadBlitz the Goddamn DragonDec 3, 2022
@Sheril Sharks are precious. Conserve them not just for a love of nature, but for a love of those delightfully pattable snoots.
Show threadKrissyTheCatboiDec 3, 2022

@Sheril To lighten the mood: I'm doing my part, by protecting my BLÅHAJs.

But on a serious note, I wonder what can people actually do - is there something like Wren, but for marine life, where you can make donations for preservation?

Show threadOrsonZeddDec 3, 2022
@Sheril sharks need up their game they can do better than this
Show threadLiquid SunshineDec 3, 2022
@Sheril I shall do both
Show threadTomDec 3, 2022
@Sheril I prefer sharks to crocodiles, who actually stand a chance of killing us on land
Show threadIainzDec 3, 2022
@Sheril Sharks help keep the oceans clean of rotting flesh.
Show threadEungerDec 3, 2022
@Sheril yes, but in my imagination they kill humans at a much higher rate. More so if I’m going to the beach.
Show threadBluePearlArtsDec 3, 2022
@Sheril
Sharks are averse to human blood...unless provoked into a fight or nips at the wrong food
Show threadHtaggertDec 3, 2022
@Sheril if we had a news blurb every time a human killed a shark. Admit I do open water swimming and have a bit of fear, but like - I’m swimming through their foyer…
Show threadDale CampbellDec 3, 2022
@Sheril absolutely! I am both terrified and absolutely amazed by sharks
Show threadfisher kingDec 3, 2022

@Sheril it makes me really sad that the main cause of shark deaths is the same as of all the other sea life that needs protecting: overfishing. people need to start realizing that "sustainable fishing" is a wishful-thinking myth and that we urgently need to stop consuming seafood :(

( https://www.discovery.com/nature/this-is-what-is-killing-sharks )

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Show threadFelipe Dec 3, 2022
@Sheril they "won" evolution, became immune to cancer, pests and most genetic diseases, survived 100s of millions of years only to succumb to some primates with erectile dysfunction
Show threadAutisticMumTo3Dec 3, 2022
@Sheril
I've seen experts call at least some species the most important fish in the sea
@MorpheusB
Show threadPatty KimuraDec 3, 2022
@Sheril I grew up around sharks. When one was sighted we got out of the water and did other beachy things, then got back into the water when it wandered away. I respect all wild animals. When I was 13, I came upon a group of baby hammerheads stranded in groups of tide pools. I saw a group of kids beating one to death. I moved as many as I could to safety as the tide was coming in. They were silky and smooth. They have more to fear from our brutality than we do from their instinct & hunger.
Show thread@martlund 🌲🐶🇸🇪🇨🇱🌈Dec 3, 2022
@Sheril A hundred MILLION? OMG! How are they killed or hunted? I had no idea.
Show threadZed Not Zee ✅Dec 3, 2022
@Sheril not to mention they eat sea turtles who destroy reefs, or so I'm told
Show threadMamiepouleDec 3, 2022
@Sheril they are amazing creatures..
Many moons ago.. (1969) on holiday in Ireland hubby caught a Spur Dog (mini shark) it was pregnant and gave birth to life young. We could only return them to the sea, nothing else mattered at the time.
Show threadLuis CarterDec 3, 2022
@Sheril Hmm 🤔
Show threadCbrodinDec 3, 2022
@Sheril unfortunately they won’t have much to eat since we already garnered most of their prey.
Show threadDavid CrosbieDec 3, 2022
@Sheril Christ! Why are humans such c***s! We really don’t deserve to survive as a species. Taken as a whole we are abusive to our planet, it’s inhabitants, and each other. What hope do we have!
Show threadAviva GaryDec 3, 2022
@Sheril truth
Show threadLeonardo Ferreira FontenelleDec 4, 2022
@Sheril Also, how many humans do humans kill each year?
Show threadJeezy PeepsDec 4, 2022

@Sheril https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr_T4Aim6Fw they're alright, honestly

they probably fear us more than we fear them

Wild Shark Recognizes Human Best Friend After They Were Separated For A Year | The Dodo Soulmates

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Show threadThePsyOfLifeDec 4, 2022
@Sheril And just think, sharks are some of the oldest animals currently living on the planet. And, we could drive them to extinction. While we as a species deserve our fate, none of the others deserve what we're doing to them.
Show threadJoel Montes de Oca 🦀Dec 4, 2022

@Sheril

The most shocking thing about that is that there's still 100 million sharks to kill each year! 🤔

Show threadChris HansonDec 4, 2022
@Sheril I knew shark fin harvesting was bad but I had no idea the scale of shark loss in our world until I saw Eli Roth on Whitney Cummings’ YouTube show. (It was all he could talk about, and there’s a good reason!) It’s *insane* that these ancient creatures are at risk of extinction out of a combination of greed and fear.
Show threadWesDymDec 4, 2022
@Sheril If my math is right, that works out to more than three sharks killed by humans every SECOND.
Show threadDrewdowlingDec 4, 2022

@Sheril I'm privileged to swim in the ocean regularly. I'm even more privileged to swim in the ocean regularly with my kids. The idea that sharks are more of a threat than urban runoff that includes medical and industrial waste is a joke.

Protect our oceans.

Show threadfletch49erDec 4, 2022
@Sheril sharks will only eat you when you're wet
Show threadLAURENDec 4, 2022
@Sheril
Sharks are truly amazing creatures 💙💙
Show threadGalaxaure🏳️‍🌈⚓️Dec 4, 2022
@Sheril Peter Benchley, author of the book Jaws upon which of course the film franchise was based, felt so guilty about his role - through this creation & his other similar sensationalist literature - in encouraging the public’s excessive fear of sharks & the massive shark culls that followed the book & films that he devoted his later life to promoting ocean conservation & understanding of marine ecosystems 🙂
Show threadGMate8Dec 4, 2022
@Sheril  
Show threadPaul 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦🇵🇸Dec 4, 2022
@Sheril Cute! 🙂
Show threadאודינקה UdinkaDec 4, 2022
@Sheril
@thelifeofsharks
Show threadVictoriaDec 4, 2022
@Sheril
a happy-looking chap.
Show threadTonyDec 4, 2022
@Sheril have you not seen the Sharknado documentary series?