Can young people really improve the world by influencing their elders to change a policy? Read this story and decide for . Dolphins, like most of us, love to eat tuna. So in many parts of the world dolphins and fishermen are in for tuna. In the past, there wasn’t much conflict dolphins and fishermen, because the numbers of tuna in the ocean were enormous. Now, however, men have developed huge fishing nets that form underwater “walls” that for miles. They can catch thousands of tuna at one time. Unfortunately, they catch many dolphins at the same time. Dolphins, like us, have to breathe air. When they are in the nets too long, they cannot breathe. By the time they are brought the ship, they will be dead. Many children were upset to hear about the death of these wonderful sea creatures and decided to help them. They wrote letters to the tuna companies and supermarkets asking them to find a way to spare dolphins. Eventually their hard work paid . Now you can buy tuna with the label “dolphin-free tuna.” So you see, everyone can make a difference.
