Dear Friends and Supporters,

As we were putting together our annual year-end review of our work for the animals, we realized that, due to the extraordinary amount of campaigns and victories we've scored for animals in 2016, there was simply no way to put it all in one email. Therefore we will be sending you a series of emails detailing what we've accomplished.

From bowhunters shooting pregnant cownose rays in Maryland - a powerful United States Senator shooting hand-tossed pigeons in Oklahoma - challenging Ducks Unlimited in Minnesota - exposing cruel dairy farms in California and so much more, SHARK goes where no one else will, and saves lives that almost everyone else ignores.

With your help, SHARK has saved innumerable lives and forged great victories for animals in 2016, but it has come at a great cost; our resources are all but depleted.

We implore you to share this email with all your friends and all those who care about animals. Please let them know that the animals need a hard-working group like SHARK and that we need financial support to keep fighting for them.

Please click HERE to read the full mailer we've sent out, and HERE to watch our hard-hitting year-end video.

 

 

Victory: SHARK Shuts Down Cruel New Jersey Rodeo!

 

This past June, SHARK shut down a cruel Mexican-style rodeo that was scheduled to be at the Dream Park in Gloucester County, NJ!

Last year a SHARK investigator went undercover at a similar rodeo held at that venue. The video he took, which included bulls being mercilessly whipped and shocked with an electric prod, as well as rampant alcohol abuse, received major media coverage and the venue banned the rodeo.

This new rodeo lied to the owners, saying that it was only going to be a “dance.” We discovered the truth, moved quickly and forcefully and the event was immediately cancelled. The bad guys almost got their way, but SHARK's vigilance stopped them in their tracks!

 

Major Campaign: SHARK Fights Vicious Cownose Ray Slaughter!

 

 

Two Killing Contests Shut Down

 

Last year, Maryland-based Fish Feel alerted us to a horrendous cownose ray killing contest on the Patuxent River where pregnant rays were shot by bowhunters for fun and prize money. There were three contests held that year, two in Maryland and one in Virginia.

SHARK’s video of the slaughter was so dramatic that one of the contests lost its sponsors and it and the VA contest were cancelled! The third contest was put on by a group called American Bowhunters. We got the group kicked out of the first location they scheduled for the weigh-in station because they were not honest with the owner. We then got them kicked out of the second location because they misled that owner as well. They hid the third location hoping we would not find out where they would be, but we found it anyway. As the killers learned, we are relentless in our mission to fight animal cruelty!