Sharks!

Michael’s in the pond!

Ragamuffin writes:

The Irish Basking Shark Protection Group have started a petition in order to demonstrate the public support for Soc Dem TD Jennifer Whitmore’s bill currently before the Oireachtas that would make it illegal for anyone to intentionally or recklessly injure or harass them off Irish coasts.

Jennifer is a former marine biologist, and says basking sharks should be given the same protections as whales and dolphins in Ireland. Basking sharks are the second biggest fish in the sea, and are mysterious gentle giants.

Ireland is one of the only countries in the world where they go close to land, and so scientists from all over the world come to study them along our Atlantic coast.

Sign here

Irish Basking Shark Study Group

Legislation introduced make basking sharks a protected species (Social Democrats)