Hey this is a critical time to write or ring the Premier of QLD to help the sharks. Below is the letter I just wrote and a bit from HSI. You can click the link below and copy and past my or similar letter onto it. Looks like 100s of drum lines have to be removed in the GBR and Qld Gov is trying to appeal the courts decision….
“I want the QLD Gov to accept the Administrative Appeals Tribunal’s ruling to remove Shark Drum lines in the GBR in QLD and to embrace a completely non-lethal approach to shark control in the Great Barrier Reef and all of QLD. The Tribunal said the evidence that killing sharks makes no difference to swimmer safety was ‘overwhelming’. Today’s non-lethal technology is more effective at protecting swimmers and should be the way forward for Queensland. Give a drone to every Surf club. Surely it will be bad for tourism in QLD and the GBR when overseas tourist become aware that you are needlessly killing the apex predator of the reef that keeps the GBR healthy and they are no safer for it. I will certainly be spreading awareness over seas through social media to tourist that the lethal shark program does not offer any safety to bathers and they may well consider going to NSW for their holidays where the Government is starting to implement non lethal alternatives to avoid an unwanted shark encounter.”
umane Society International Australia. HSI is welcoming the removal of lethal drumlines within the Great Barrier Reef following our landmark court case ruling this week.
But we are very concerned Queensland Fisheries Minister Mark Furner MP for Ferny Grove is threatening to appeal the Tribunal decision to end shark culling in the Reef. He has written to Federal Environment Minister Melissa Price seeking her help for a legal intervention.
We are asking all #SharkChampions in Queensland to please call the Office of Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk on (07) 3719 7000 to tell her to accept the Tribunal’s ruling and to embrace a completely non-lethal approach to shark control in the Great Barrier Reef. The Tribunal said the evidence that killing sharks makes no difference to swimmer safety was ‘overwhelming’. Today’s non-lethal technology is more effective at protecting swimmers and should be the way forward for Queensland.