Extinction may hit one in four Shark and Ray Species

Extinction may hit one in four Shark and Ray Species

Inside a fish port in Banyuwangi in Indonesia's East Java province in 2008 sharks which have been caught on wooden boats have been put on display after unloading.

During the last two days there have been two incidents of shark attacks which caused the media to start a frenzy of `Jaws' but if you see by numbers then the sharks are more at risk of being extinct since every year humans kill around 100 million of them.

A study conducted over 20 years back in the making discovered that 25 percent of all shark and ray species have the danger of being extinct in the next few decades. New studies of the water bodies on our planet explains that in the coming days there is very little hope for Earth's shark and ray populations.

A team from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, which is the world's largest and oldest global environmental network maintaining a "Red List" of threatened species, kept a record of the count of sharks left in our seas along with the reason of their numbers getting lower every year.

The findings of their study shows that overfishing, along with a demand for shark fin soup and hunting killer sharks due to human fear are the main reasons behind shark and ray populations to reduce.