Thank you everyone who has voted. This could take off!
http://www.petitiononline.com/SharkS/petition.html
"To: Hu Jintao president of the People's Republic of China.
Currently the Chinese people are eating a soup which is causing the biggest ecological disaster of our time. Supplying the demand for Shark's Fin soup involves the death of what best estimates say are between 50 and 150 million sharks a year. This is unsustainable and will inevitably lead to all sharks becoming extinct, many species are already over 90% eradicated.
The shark is the apex predator that keeps the whole ecology of the sea in balance and healthy. Nobody knows what the effects of their removal will be but is can be guaranteed to involve a lot of unwanted harmful outcomes.
This petition seeks the Chinese government to ban the catching, import and sale of sharks and all shark related products."
Meanwhile my other, non diving, petition is only up to a hundred:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/EnglandleaveUK/
"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to have a referendum offering the population of England the opportunity to leave the United Kingdom."
"Currently English people pay more taxes to subsidise the Scots, Welsh and NI. They enjoy a far higher level of social spending which we pay for. Also there is a democratic deficit in their favour. And they whinge far too much."
http://www.petitiononline.com/SharkS/petition.html
"To: Hu Jintao president of the People's Republic of China.
Currently the Chinese people are eating a soup which is causing the biggest ecological disaster of our time. Supplying the demand for Shark's Fin soup involves the death of what best estimates say are between 50 and 150 million sharks a year. This is unsustainable and will inevitably lead to all sharks becoming extinct, many species are already over 90% eradicated.
The shark is the apex predator that keeps the whole ecology of the sea in balance and healthy. Nobody knows what the effects of their removal will be but is can be guaranteed to involve a lot of unwanted harmful outcomes.
This petition seeks the Chinese government to ban the catching, import and sale of sharks and all shark related products."
Meanwhile my other, non diving, petition is only up to a hundred:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/EnglandleaveUK/
"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to have a referendum offering the population of England the opportunity to leave the United Kingdom."
"Currently English people pay more taxes to subsidise the Scots, Welsh and NI. They enjoy a far higher level of social spending which we pay for. Also there is a democratic deficit in their favour. And they whinge far too much."