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March 5, 2013 Damian Carrington: The Guardian Environment
The gills of this magnificent glider of the oceans are valuable, but the rays are worth far more alive than dead.
If you think that protecting wildlife, especially the big, sexy creatures, is a worthy thing to do but has little to with the lives of people, consider the case of the manta ray. A trade in their gills worth just $5-10m a year is devastating their populations which, in the places where it is developed, supports a tourist trade worth well over $100m a year... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2013/mar/05/manta-rays-cites-illegal-wildlife-trade
THE GREAT SHARK MASSACRE - 100 MILLION GONE - Ocean Poaching http://sco.lt/5bjtYn
PACIFIC LEATHERBACK TURTLE, KNOWN FOR ITS ARDUOUS 6,000 MILE OCEAN TREK, FACES EXTINCTION http://sco.lt/58mqQL
THE END OF THE LINE - THE FUTURE OF FISH http://sco.lt/6MweXZ
Ecosystems at Risk topic. Opportunity costs of Ecosystem where tourism provides a greater future for the environment than the highly prized gill of teh Manta ray.