Nets set around Kwazulu Natal beaches kill thousands of marina animals every year. Credit Sea Shepherd Society
Remove the Nets: Join the Shark Angels’ Campaign against Shark Nets!
June 2009. It is difficult to believe in this day in age, with all that we know about sharks’ plummeting populations, their critical role in ocean ecosystems and the minimal risk they pose to humans, that the archaic and destructive practice of installing shark nets for “bather protection” still exists. But in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa, a province ironically known around the world as one of the few places left where sharks and the ecosystems they keep healthy still thrive, untold numbers of harmless sharks, turtles, dolphins, and rays meet an untimely and senseless death each year by entanglement in the approximately 28 kilometres of ‘shark’ nets that are installed just off the beaches.
33,000 sharks, 2000 dolphins & 2000 turtles killed to boost beach tourism in South Africa |
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