We kill 100 million sharks every year.
If they were lions or elephants, the world would rise in protest. With sharks, we shrug. Centuries of fear, sharpened by stories like Jaws, have numbed us to the slaughter.
Yet sharks may be the most important animals in the ocean. Remove them, and balance collapses. Reefs bleach. Seagrass turns to sand. Whole communities lose their only source of protein. Even the oxygen in our lungs begins to falter.
Sharks aren’t monsters. They are the ocean perfected, older than trees, honed by 400 million years of evolution.
What happens when they’re gone?
That’s what this week’s episode of Voice for the Blue dives into: the myths, the science, and the terrifying truth of a world without sharks.
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- Luke
