Mark Keung, Save a Whale Shark

That day I tried to save a Whale Shark I just thought to spend money to buy the shark and set it free because it is an endangered species on verge of extinction. Though this creature had a big body, it was very weak. It appeared that my intervention would have a nice ending, however this shark ended up dead. It was doomed to be.

I plan to stop eating any food or use anything made from shark. I wish I could own an ocean, for growing sharks. As living space for sharks has become lesser and lesser. Shark is a harmoniser of the ocean ecology. This is where I come from.

Further I hope that, through the help of Earth Champions, we can urge the government to instigate regulations to stop net fishing in Hong Kong waters, as a means to stop severe damage of sea ecology; also to limit the size of fishing yield, in order to allow the ocean to have ample regeneration time.

There is another action that I have been doing for a couple of years, and I will go on to doing so. That is to not use air conditioning in summer. The more air conditioning we use, the warmer the earth will become. Now the average temperature of the earth is 14.5 degrees. It is scary just to picture how the earth would be when the temperature soars to 16 degrees.

A lot of species will die of the heat, low lands will be flooded, desertification will be more and more serious ,and lots of earth resources will disappear. Nowadays the earth has lost its distinct four seasons, if we had only summer, it will bring about a lot more problems. So now I will make myself a role model, to talk people into not wasting, save energy and water. Otherwise, if we go on wasting, the earth will be put to an end very soon.

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