Observing these spectacular animals in the wild is a wake-up call that sharks around the world need our help. Sharks are hunted ferociously for their fins. Millions are killed every year, the result being that many species are now threatened with extinction.

Sharks may have once been at the top of the food chain, but with 73 million now killed each year and 30 percent threatened with extinction, island cou...

Our fear of sharks is simply irrational considering that you are more likely to be killed by a toaster than a shark. Unfortunately, we tend to fear what we do not understand. The fact is, we should be scared FOR sharks, not of them.

Early this year President Obama signed the Shark Conservation Act into law.

Sharks weren't put here millions of years ago just to be made into soup. We need them and they need our help -- sharks are part of our ecosystem for a reason.