http://takeaction.worldwildlife.org/action/- from the World Wildlife Fund. US residents can email letters to their Congressional members. One of the latest campaigns is protection of the Law of the Sea Treaty.

You can make a difference!

The Australian: 'Saviour' dolphins mutilated [November 27, 2004]

CNN.com - Census: Plenty new species in the sea - Nov 23, 2004

The BBC covered this news, too.

See also the Census of Marine Life Portal site.

"A pod of dolphins circled protectively round a group of New Zealand swimmers to fend off an attack by a great white shark."

The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), which includes 63 countries, agreed at its annual meeting to ban shark finning. South Korea was the only country in opposition.

Shark finning has been banned by the USA in the Atlantic since 1993 and in the Pacific Ocean since 2002.