Hammerhead Sharks At Risk-Red List
September 12, 2007 @ 09:05 AM (EST)
Source: Reuters.com
Following are highlights of a 2007 "Red List" of endangered species of animals and plants issued by the World Conservation Union on Wednesday.
The Union, which comprises governments, conservation groups and scientists, said that 16,306 species are threatened in a mounting global "extinction crisis", up from 16,119 in 2006...Great Hammerhead Shark: Endangered, previously insufficient data. The sharks' fins are prized as a delicacy, hammerheads also suffer from getting entangled in nets and only breed once every two years. Numbers in the eastern Atlantic may have crashed by 80 percent in the last 25 years....
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