They"ve long been treated as threats, portrayed as villains, and brutally hunted for their edible fins, so we think it"s only fair that sharks get their own day. Shark Awareness Day is meant to highlight the importance of the most fearsome fish in nature, from little dwarf lantern sharks to great whites to these blacktip reef sharks cruising the Tahitian coast.
A different view of sharks
Today in History
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International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend
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World Theatre Day
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Point Reyes National Seashore, California
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Yellowstone for the National Park Services birthday
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National Frog Month
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Frankenstein Friday
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Watch your step
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Beyond Walls for World Refugee Day
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The Tre Cime di Lavaredo, Italy
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The Zugspitze: Germany s highest point
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Shark Fin Cove, California
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Great white egret, Upper Bavaria, Germany
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World Reef Awareness Day
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World Architecture Day
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Black bear cub emerging into spring
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Innerdalsvatna Lake, near Ålvundeidet, Norway
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Whoopin it up!
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Black History Month
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La Rocque Harbour, Island of Jersey
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Sligachan Old Bridge, Isle of Skye, Scotland
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Spiegelgracht canal in Amsterdam, Netherlands
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A bison preserve
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A Christmas market with a long history
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Nature Photography Day
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Who created the Easter Bunny?
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Seonam Temple, South Korea
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Vancouver Coastal Sea wolves, Great Bear Rainforest, Canada
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A young jaguar on a riverbank, Pantanal, Brazil
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Where the glow of the holidays lingers
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First day of National Park Week
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