Reflective summary

Through the research I have done. Human beings are the ones killing dolphins and whales. Due to hunting, pollution, climate changes and global warming. Dolphins and Whales are dying. They are going to be extinct. The cruel human being eating their meats and use their body parts to make oil. Those people are just thinking for themselves. How about the family of Dolphins and Whales. They are also living things, they have family too! Some people might think in a negative way, like how they have killed human. But human kill them as well. Why don’t you think in a positive way? They performed for human to enjoy yet we are killing them. If this is going to continue, they will extinct. We can no longer enjoy performance by them. The ocean will not be as beautiful as before. This would create a huge imbalance in the food chain. Many countries are still continuing to hunt for Whales and Dolphins. That's why we are making conservation of Dolphins and whales. We have to stop and plan to help conserve them. Protect the marine just like we protect our family. Treat them as one. We are both living things. If hunters are still going on to kill them, they should thing twice being killing. Spread this messages, let more people understands them. Let’s saves dolphins & whales!!!

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Reflective journal5

Endangered dolphins are a huge concern in our actual society. This would create a huge imbalance in the food chain. No dolphins to eat some creatures then there would be too many. Too many of them mean less food for each one and since their food might be marine plants, they will not grow fast enough to feed everyone. One of the three reason is both tuna and dolphins follow the same routes; dolphins get caught in the fishermen's nets which are meant to catch tuna. Dolphins are being killed just because they are not purposely to caught them.
Another reason is fishing for use in human's cuisine. Nowadays, dolphins are protected by laws but nonetheless between 200,000 and 500,000 dolphins were victimized by fishermen during the 1960s. Some laws protect dolphins, it allows a certain amount of dolphins to be accidentally caught which still has a negative impact on the dolphins' species. The most major reason is Pollution. Since humans are polluting rivers, seas and oceans, it affects dolphins. Since the dolphin is at the top of the food chain, the chemicals that pollute its habitat create the highest level of concentration of these pollutants in its body. As a result, diseases, difficulty to reproduce or even death take their toll on these species. We need to help in less pollution to the ocean. Dolphins are so cute but we are killing them. They also feel the pain when dying. Stop hunting or killing them.
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taken from http://dolphins-and-more.com/endangered-dolphins.html

Reflective journal4

I research on dolphin for the reflective journey4. There are many types of Dolphins. The Delphinidae are both the largest family of dolphins and the largest family within the order Cetacean. They are commonly referred to as the ocean dolphins even though some still retain the name whale. The beak length and width is highly variable between the different species and types of dolphins; some members have little or no differentiated beak while others demonstrate a prominent and distinct beak. Six types of porpoises currently reside in the world's oceans all belonging to the family Phocoenidae. They include, Burmeister's Porpoise, Dall's Porpoise, the Finless Porpoise, the Harbour Porpoise, the Spectacled Porpoise and the rare Vaquita. These largely cryptic animals have drawn little attention to themselves until the later part of the 20th century when it became apparent that a large number of these animals were becoming entangled in static fishing gear. The porpoises differ from dolphins by having chiseled shaped teeth, no beak and a more triangular shaped dorsal fin.Of all the marine mammals the dolphins are among those most adapted to an aquatic way of life.
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TAKEN from http://www.whalewatchwestcork.com/types-of-dolphins.html, http://www.whalewatchwestcork.com/dolphin-research.html

childhood memories

Talking about childhood memories, i miss the time when i was young. It always been so fun. Now there are schools, no more fun but studies. During my childhood, i am always much more closer to my grandmother. She take care of me very day, without her i would always cry. Even with my parent around. She always go to Malaysia and i would follow her every time.
She would always buy thing that i want.
My grandmother use to bring me to swimming every weekend. And i love swimming when i was small. All i can say is that i Love her a lot.

Reflective journal3

I found this research of dolphin. Dolphins face a greater number of threats to their species survival today that at any other time during their evolution and at a time when there are more acts designed to protect them than ever before. We select below a few of those issues that require serious attention and make dolphin conservation a pressing need the world over. Dolphins and Yellowfin Tuna are always found swimming together. The reasons for this are not fully understood but we believe the tuna are taking advantage of the dolphin’s ability to find prey as they frequently feed on the same species. Fishermen have long noticed this association and have sought to exploit this association by fishing close to groups of dolphins. This practice was commonplace in the Pacific from the 1950's onwards and resulted in the deaths of thousands of dolphins caught up in purse seine nets employed to catch the tuna. Many countries continue to allow hunting of dolphins for aboriginal, cultural or subsistence purposes. Dolphins and small whales are killed and used for food, oil or other traditional uses and their products cannot legally be traded.
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taken from http://whalewatchwestcork.com/dolphin-conservation.html

Reflective journal2

Whales and dolphins are facing ever-increasing dangers despite the 20-year ban on commercial whaling. Whales are currently under threat from a wide range of human activities, despite there being a moratorium in place against commercial whaling for nearly 20 years. Nearly 1,000 whales and dolphins are killed every day as bycatch in fishing nets. Bycatch is when unwanted fish and other species are caught up in fishing gear. It has been revealed as one of the greatest global threats facing dolphins and whales. When dolphins and other species, which breathe air, get caught up in the nets, they often get trapped underwater and drown. WWF is working with members of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to encourage whale conservation around the world. Many countries like Norway continues to hunt whales under its objection to the IWC moratorium against commercial whaling, Japan has been whaling under the guise of 'scientific research', killing hundreds of whales each year and selling whale meat openly on the market. I wonder what they are hunting whale for. Whales are also living things like human. If they treat hunting like sport, they are totally cruel.
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taken from http://wwf.org.au/ourwork/oceans/whales/

Reflective Journal1

The first website i research on is whale. There are still cruel hunter around hunting for whale. Thousands of years aboriginal hunting has sought the meat and oil of cetaceans. It is the last 300 years that have seen a steady escalation in the volume of animals taken culminating in the well documented greed of the 20th century when over two million whales were slaughtered in the southern hemisphere alone.

In spite of the Japanese continuing to hunt smaller rorquals under the guise of scientific whaling. However, with continued pressure and ongoing environmental degradation it is likely that some cetacean species will be extinct before the end of the decade and others before the end of the century. For some cetacean populations we are too late. Whales are facing many threats like chemical and oil pollution, resumption of commercial whaling and excessive and insensitive whale watching without controls.

we should stop all the hunters for killing whales. There are too many pollution around the sea, which causes many whale or even other fishes to die. Whales are also living things. we should conserve them.
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Taken from http://www.whalewatchwestcork.com/conservation.html

A place where i want to go

i always want to go Taiwan. The place is so beautiful and nice.
The view there is much more nicer then Singapore. The food there are all so nice that i could not wait going there. It is my dream to go Taiwan long time, due too projects and school. We have no time to go there. My parent would always have their job to do and we have no time for holiday.
Hoping can visit there this few years