Burgess believes the more logical solution would be to bring in scientists to find out if changes in the shark population, human behavior, or in the environment could be causing the shark attacks on Réunion. (The island has had a disproportionately high number of shark attacks compared to other areas of the world). In other countries that have done this, they have introduced practical solutions that not only protect the sharks, but make money off of the beaches. In almost 40 years of shark research, the shark attack expert Burgess has never seen such a program of “wholesale killing sanctioned by a national government. This is the biological equivalent of a lynch mob in the Old West, but in this case it’s being done by an arm of the French government. It’s quite embarrassing that an enlightened country like France would sanction something like this.”
Posted on: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 11:52:22 +0000
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