Last month a group of unlikely lobbyists came to Washington, DC, survivors of shark attacks — many with missing limbs and legs — to help save the very predators which attacked them, but are in danger of being hunted to extinction.
They are attempting to perusade US legislators – starting in the Senate – to back a tough new US law to clamp down on the widespread killing of shark, which has steadily risen in response to Asia’s insatiable appetite for shark fin soup.