Great white sharks may be more endangered than tigers.
It has been suggested there are more tigers left in the wild than white sharks

The assessment suggests that fishing and collisions with shipping vessels have taken a devastating toll on the ancient predators.

The World Conservation Union,lists great white sharks as vulnerable but has no official estimate of their global population. But a recent survey suggests that great whites have fallen below 3,500 individuals, the number of tigers conservationists believe are left in the wild.

A team led by Barbara Block, a marine biologist at Stanford University, used radio transmitters to track more than 150 great white sharks off the coast of southern California.

"The estimated total population of great white sharks in the world's oceans is actually less than the number of tigers," said Ronald O'Dor, a senior scientist at the Census of Marine Life.
"We hear an awful lot about how endangered tigers are, but apparently great white sharks are pretty close to the same level..." said O'Dor told the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in San Diego yesterday.

"The Australians have now got a system where they put tags on great white sharks and they have receivers on the beaches so when a great white comes into the bay the receiver automatically makes a cell phone call and tells the guy in charge to close the beach. So we can co-exist with marine life," he added.

In 2007, marine biologists at Dalhousie University in Canada analysed records from fisheries and research vessels dating from the 1970s to 2005: Tiger sharks and scalloped hammerheads had declined more than 97% since the mid-1980s, while numbers of smooth hammerheads and bull sharks fell 99% off the east coast of the US.

Original article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/19/great-white-shark-endangered-tiger

Improving My dear Faculty...

WHAT IS THE CURRENT SITUATION IN YOUR FACULTY?
In my opinion, the current situation is more bad than good. I´ll just name a couple of things that I don´t like... or maybe.. I HATE!
I´m imagining a foreigner to attend a class and is invaded by flies... don´t you think it´s embarrassing? And then, he´s starving and want to eat something delicious, healthy and of course, that the person who treats you do it well, but, NO! he comes face to face to fatty foods! and a face not very friendly of the woman who´s serving you. ( DON´T WANT TO BE OFFENSIVE). Later, he wants to tell someone about this, and he goes to Secretariat... BIG MISTAKE! again you´re face to face to not very friendly faces. So now, he wants to talk with a teacher in particular...( I will not give name ) but... Surprise! that teacher isn´t known for being very friendly, and .. it is best to call Doctor ... maybe it's better for you...
WHAT THINGS NEED IMPROVEMENT?
I think that is more important to improve the treatment of some teachers toward us.It costs nothing! Then, the subject of flies... I mean they are ridiculously too many and annoying! are unhygienic and they deconcentrated to any. And the Cafe will not hart to improve.
WHAT WOULD BE YOUR FIRST STEPS TO DEALING WITH THIS SITUATION?
Perhaps develop a survey covering these three points, and of course some more, to see if it is just my idea or most of the students thought the same. Then, to find concrete solutions to these problems. Then communicate their discomfort and who must be solutions, and hopefully I can be heard.
HOW WOULD YOU RESOLVE THIS SITUATION?
About of teacher treatment.. maybe I have nothing to do... But yes about the other two.
For the flies, could be a little hard, because i think the flies comes because of horses. But why not have classes in one room that is away from the stable? In any case the would have, but not so as there are in the classrooms near of the stable. Maybe find "something" that away from the classrooms, repellents? call one fumigation company? I do not know! have to investigate.
About the cofe,I have heard that it´s not property from the faculty, so the real solution would be to invest in a Cafe as it should. Or maybe a dialogue with the Cafe and solve problems such as lack of healthy and delicious meals.
WHAT COULD BE THE REAL BENEFITS/IMPACT OF THESE IMPROVEMENTS
The Faculty would be a much more enjoyable, best viewed by the other faculties, a great place to be!
NEXT STEPS >> FURTHER RECOMMENDATIONS
I will love to have another places like the " Cuchitril"... this is kind of dirty, the dogs put in the sofas and nobody cleans it. Roofing more sites because on rainy days, places like the Cuchitril, the library and the Cafe are filled too . I will like to have a modern classroom, just one! is that so much to ask? Some room to make us feel proud... like in anothers faculties do!