Bill Allen, the editor of National Geographic, explains in his editorial, that when the movie and the novel Jaws by Peter Benchley were released in 1974, everyone was terrified of sharks!
Today, we have the same situation, but in the opposite way: the sharks should be scared of people!
According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) killing of sharks has skyrocketed 2,000 percent since 1991.
Twenty-five years later, Peter Benchley, in his article, Sharks, in National Geographic, April 2000, tries to show sharks in a different light. According to Benchley, what do we need to do? We need to save the sharks and stop our destroying missions.
Now they are protected off the coast of Australia, some tips of Africa, the Maldives and parts of the U.S. It's a first step for a solution to this problem.
Good job Rustem!
ReplyDeleteThat's cool that Peter Benchley decided to write something IN FAVOR of the great white shark after scaring all of us half to death with his novel and book Jaws! I remember going to a beach in Capri, off the coast of Naples, in Italy, in 1976 and when we dove into the crystal clear waters there, one of my friends started yelling - SHARKS! - but there were NO sharks -people were simply terrified by that movie.
Though the great white is scary to us, we have to remember that if we go swimming where they live, well, we are in THEIR eco-system!!!