Speech

Why we should protect the Maui dolphins?

Do you want to know why the Maui Dolphins are the most at-risk marine mammal in the world? Well it's because not many people know about them so they are getting killed by propellers on boats, or the net's boats carry around and then the main one that kills lot's of sea creatures and I'm sure at least everyone in New Zealand has done this once before and that is pollute. These are all bad for the Maui dolphins and this is what's killing them, I think we should stop and try to protect them.


Lot's of people love to fish, but what they don't realize is that they re fishing in the wrong area sometimes. Who fishes on the West Coast of the North Island? I know that some people do and the propellers on boats are killing the poor Maui dolphins. The Maui dolphins are so tiny and they can't see very well so how do the people that fish there expect the Maui dolphins to just swim away from the boats, because dolphins don't know that they will get killed, so the fishermen are the ones that should fix this problem. It's quite easy they should just stay away from the area with there boats, there are a lot of other places you can fish, so there is no need to go there.


When fishermen go out to sea on big boats they carry around nets to catch big fish, but they can easily accidentally catch a Maui dolphin and they can't swim fast enough to get out from the net. The Maui dolphins are endangered and how many people know that they are indigenous which is native to NewZealand? So why is this continuing? We should be protecting them not killing them. Yes I know that people are only trying to fish with the nets and only trying to catch fish but you could catch anything with the size of those nets.


People think that polluting does nothing to the Earth, but really if they don’t know that polluting is bad then they really don't know anything. Would you like to die because someone dropped a bit of rubbish? Well you should really stop because those Maui dolphins have done no harm to you, but when you drop one bit of rubbish you have just put a Maui dolphin at risk. How can someone be so careless? It isn't hard to walk a few steps to put something in the bin, think of how many Maui dolphins you will be saving, people could call you a hero and all you did was put a piece of rubbish in the bin. So you should really not pollute and then you could save a life.


You really need to think about this, if all of this stops the Maui dolphins won’t be endangered anymore and then there will be more of them left so you are not doing anyone any harm.If you don’t go near this area and don’t pollute you are a life saver. So do you want to be a hero or a killer?