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For decades environmentalists have been urging others to help save the whales. Who ever thought to save the sawfish?

It turns out that in the 1970s, just as whales were being brought under some protection, sawfish populations around the were being decimated. Oh, it’s true that sawfish had some earlier declines. However, it was in the 1970s that sawfish populations plummeted in a truly dramatic fashion.

Since that time, sawfish around the world have slowly begun, one by one, to completely disappear. In huge areas of the Earth’s oceans, sawfish just aren’t there any more. In the rivers of the world, which sawfish once swam in quite abundantly, the sawfish are almost completely gone too.

Sawfish are now on the brink of global extinction. They used to be giants of the seas, rivaling great white sharks at as long as 30 feet. Now a ten foot sawfish seems large. Sawfish take a long time to grow and mature to breeding age, and the older, larger breeders just aren’t there any more.

Most people don’t think about sawfish, and so they just don’t realize what’s going on. You can help change that. Wear this activist pin to help spread the simple message: Save the sawfish.