Whale Shark Slaughter in India- Shores of Silence

A shortened version of the film 'Shores of Silence'

The film is an effort to create awareness and gather support to protect and conserve this species. The aim is to eventually help create policies to ban whale shark trade in India and find sustainable alternatives for the local fishing community.

This film moved the government of India into bringing in legislation and banning the killing of the Whale Sharks on Indian shores. The Whale Shark was declared protected under the Indian Wildlife Act- 1972, bringing it at par with the tigers and the Rhino.

This was a landmark move. It was the first marine species to be protected under the Indian law.

In November 2002, at the international CITES meet in Chile, Santiago, a negative voting changed into an overwhelming positive after this film was shown to the delegates - bringing global protection of the Whale Shark and giving the largest fish in the world a new lease of life.

The Film has also been greatly successful in bringing about change in the attitude of fisher folk

Awards won:

1. THE GREEN OSCAR -Winner of the Worlds most Prestigious GREEN OSCAR / PANDA AWARD, Wildscreen Festival, Bristol, UK - 2000
2. The Citta Di Toronto at the Cinemambiente Awadrs - 2001
3. The 6th Sichuan TV Festival , China - 2001
4. The Honour of Knowledge Award at Baristlava, Slovakia - 2001
5. The Golden Jury Award, Worldfest, Houston- 2002
6. The Rolls Royce, Commonwealth Broadcasting Award, UK- 2002
7. Ecofilm, Award in the Category of Documentary, Oct 2002
8. Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic Award, Nov 2002
9. Wildlife trust of India, Endangered Species Award, 2002
10. Vatavaran 2003 Prithvi Ratan Award for Outstanding Achievement in Global Conservation, November 2003

11.National Award for Best Adventure & Exploration Film, 2005

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• whale shark
• slaughter
• shocking
• animal
• cruelty
• massacre
• attack
• asia
• india
• mike pandey
• hunting
• kill
• gruesome
• disgusting
• torture
• protection
• shark
• whale
• whaleshark
• shores of silence
• save
• protect
• underwater
• film
• documentary
• stop
• whaling
• fin
• finning

[000snow000]

they could make sooooo much money just taking tourists out on boats to swim/dive with the whale sharks...

[panthera50]

People should stop breeding, there are too many on this planet. :(

It ruins everything.

[i7fan]

@panthera50 Yeah its nuts bro. Dont worry though the planets defense systems will deal with the human race sooner or later. It is exercising with tsunamis, volcanos, hurricanes and earthquakes atm.

[1985boxer]

god is going to punish all of them he should just finish all of us we are just fucked all these lil punks swiming the poor animal are a bunch of dumb fucks when they get old what other spicies r they gonna finish off fuck asia sick fuck

[panthera50]

@i7fan Yep, and when there are 10 billion, EVERYONE is fukced.

[i7fan]

@panthera50 Thats true. We humans have doctors and hospitals so many that shouldnt have lived live. Sure its sad when someone you know die but thats only because we are self aware beings. Its a double edged sword. Its good that people die and still too sad so we save them. 6 billion people not long ago and now we are 7 billion. The rate is moving up very fast.

[i7fan]

Just a baby whaleshark.... Morons

[derkono]

was this fish still alive??? fuuuck.

[RabDaaBanda]

Assholes of my country

[TheVill4in]

Shoot your not gonna give them your food so they are gonna get it somehow! So shut up unless your feeding them

[XxSpaCeUnIcOrNxX]

This is why we send africa to the moon!