Nature Trust is currently working on a project to create a wildlife rescue centre to be able to treat injured animals such as marine turtles. It also has an ongoing campaign against dolphin captivity as part of the Cetacean Freedom Alliance (Cetfree). Now the organisation has also teamed up with Sharklab as members of the Shark Alliance.

The organisations will work together to highlight the plight of sharks - more than a third of the shark species in the Mediterranean is faced with extinction. Signatures are being collected to urge our fisheries to completely ban shark finning in Europe. Over 75 million sharks are being slaughtered each year purely for their fins.

Shark finning, the process of slicing off sharks' fins for making shark fin soup, is a multibillion dollar industry, which in most places worldwide is an illegal practice. The sharks are finned and thrown back into the water - frequently, they are still alive. The process is a wasteful and inhumane way of producing a product from mass slaughter.

For further information on how you can make a difference on this issue visit these websites:

www.naturetrustmalta.org
www.sharksmalta.org
www.sharklab.tk
www.sharkalliance.org
www.cetfree.org