{"id":17965,"date":"2018-01-24T19:44:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T09:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=17965"},"modified":"2024-06-29T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T20:00:11","slug":"protect-our-vulnerable-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=17965","title":{"rendered":"PROTECT OUR VULNERABLE SHARKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ProtectOurSharks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-17966\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ProtectOurSharks-300x89.jpg\" alt=\"Protect Our Sharks\" width=\"772\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRight now the Turnbull Government is trying to block protection for our most vulnerable sharks. But we can stop them, if we speak out quickly.. Tell them we want our sharks protected for our ocean\u2019s sake.<br \/>\nThe world\u2019s shark populations are in decline. These majestic apex marine creatures are in trouble, with many shark species endangered due to fishing pressure for their fins and flesh. Yet healthy shark populations are key to healthy oceans.<br \/>\nThroughout the world\u2019s oceans our blue sharks, dusky whalers and white-spotted wedgefish are threatened with extinction. The threats they face are so great that nearly 50 countries have signed an agreement to help these sharks.<br \/>\nBut here in Australia our Government is trying to weasel out of protecting our most vulnerable sharks.<br \/>\nWe have less than a week to urge the Government to protect our sharks. We need our Government to be champions for shark protection, not the cause of their demise.<br \/>\nTell the Australian Government that you support strong protection for our threatened sharks.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marineconservation.org.au\/petitions\/201\/protect-our-vulnerable-sharks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.marineconservation.org.au\/petitions\/201\/protect-our-vulnerable-sharks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now the Turnbull Government is trying to block protection for our most vulnerable sharks. But we can stop them, if we speak out quickly.. Tell them we want our sharks protected for our ocean\u2019s sake. The world\u2019s shark populations are in decline. These majestic apex marine creatures are in trouble, with many shark species &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=17965\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PROTECT OUR VULNERABLE SHARKS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51585,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17965\/revisions\/51585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}