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Written by Mary O'Malley
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Wednesday, 21 April 2010 16:48 |
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The Conference Committee members agreed yesterday on the final draft and voted unanimously to pass the bill. This final version of the bill prohibits all trade, possession and sale of shark fins and all shark harvest in the State and State waters. See the bill here . The amendments added were an exemption for researchers and also a one year grace period to allow restaurants to clear out their existing inventory. Although many restaurants have already decided to remove shark fin soup from their menus voluntarily. The effective date of the bill has been set for July 1st, 2010.
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Written by Shark Savers
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Friday, 16 April 2010 15:22 |
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You may recall that Shark Savers fielded two petitions regarding Palau. The first one opposed a bad shark fishing law and the second one thanked Palau for subsequently protecting sharks by creating the National Shark Sanctuary. We created a book consisting of your signatures and comments for presentation to President Toribiong. Today, our book was presented to the President on our behalf by our friend, Dermot Keane of the Palau Shark Sanctuary.
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Written by Mary O'Malley
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Thursday, 08 April 2010 10:48 |
Perhaps the most significant legislation involving sharks in US history was passed yesterday by the Hawaiian House of Representatives. This bill will prohibit the sale, possession, and trade of any type of shark fin or shark fin product in the State, including State waters.
This bill has stirred up a great deal of political debate, pitting the concerns of ocean health against a lucrative trade. And it has also spurred somewhat of a cultural debate, since the Chinese cultural preference for consuming shark fin soup runs counter to the Hawaiian reverence and respect for sharks as powerful "aumakua", which in Hawaiian is defined as a benevolent guardian spirit or family protector.
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Written by Shark Savers
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Sunday, 04 April 2010 15:02 |
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CNN in China posts their favorite Chinese video of the week. This week, they chose the television commercial with Yao Ming that Shark Savers co-funded with WildAid as part of our shark fin soup campaign. Check it out:
http://www.cnngo.com/shanghai/none/china-videos-we-love-week-892899 |
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Written by Wendy Benchley and Dr. Ellen K. Pikitch
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Thursday, 01 April 2010 14:32 |
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The world considered fundamental questions in Doha, Qatar this week. Which species should be protected from over-exploitation in international trade and which species should be allowed to disappear forever?
CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) held its Conference of the Parties to answer these questions, as it does every 2-3 years.
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Written by Shark Savers
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 18:24 |
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In the past few weeks, both Honduras and The Maldives have joined Palau in announcing a complete ban on shark fishing in their territorial waters. The ban in The Maldives was expected. One year ago, the Maldivian government announced a fishing ban for reef sharks and stated that there would be a subsequent ban on all shark fishing within their waters within 12 months. That time has now come. Many of you signed our petition to congratulate The Maldives when they announced the earlier ban.
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Written by Shark Savers
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Monday, 04 January 2010 01:28 |
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Bus stop billboards, featuring Yao Ming and a message opposing shark fin soup, were installed in Beijing and China during December 2009. These billboards are part of the "Say 'no' to shark fin soup" campaign undertaken by WildAid and Shark Savers.
Hundreds of you contributed to the campaign to purchase billboards and related media in the months since November, 2009.
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Written by Shark Savers, WildAid Press release
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Monday, 21 December 2009 06:45 |
Yao Ming Saves the Sharks!! Yao buys Shanghai Sharks and releases public message against shark fin soup
Shanghai: NBA star Yao Ming watched his first game as the new owner of the Shanghai Sharks basketball team, the team he used to play for before moving to the NBA. In the morning he released a new public service announcement and billboard campaign with international conservation group WildAid www.wildaid.org. The campaign is supported by a grant from Shark Savers, the organization that also created online and grassroots components of the campaign. www.sharkavers.org.
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Written by Shark Savers
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Monday, 21 December 2009 06:24 |
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As part of the campaign launched today with WildAid, we developed an online component complete with four grass roots campaigns that include downloadable materials and an additional video that should magnify the impact of the campaign. Everything has been designed and written for the primary consumers of shark fin soup.
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Written by Shark Savers
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Thursday, 10 December 2009 12:57 |
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Shark Savers is very pleased to announce an expansion of our Board of Directors to include some of our favorite luminaries in the world of shark advocacy, Wendy Benchley, Shawn Heinrichs, Ellen Pikitch, and Chip Scarlett.
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Written by Shark Savers
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Wednesday, 09 December 2009 16:47 |
New billboard featuring Yao Ming
Within three weeks of initiating our appeal to fund the "Say 'no' to shark fin soup" billboards in China, we have met our goal! In just three weeks, hundreds of you met the call, aided by the matching grant from our generous donor. The billboards will now be installed in Beijing and Shanghai beginning this month.
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Written by Shark Savers Press Release
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Tuesday, 06 October 2009 17:07 |
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New York, NY, October 5, 2009-Shark Savers announced today it has launched an online ‘thank you' card to harness worldwide support for Palauan President Johnson Toribiong's September 25th declaration of a National Shark Sanctuary. The online card is available for the public to sign at the Shark Savers web site.
Palau's move to protect sharks is one of the most complete and unequivocal shark conservation actions in history. It is also rare good news for sharks because their populations worldwide are collapsing due to unrelenting fishing pressure, as indicated by reports released by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Sharks are critical to the ocean ecosystem because, as apex predators, they help to keep other marine populations in balance.
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Written by Shark Savers
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Tuesday, 29 September 2009 10:30 |
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We have received a few 'thank you's for our collective efforts opposing Palau's Senate Bill 8-44 which sought to re-open commercial shark fishing and loosen shark finning regulations in Palau waters. The new declaration of the National Shark Sanctuary is the response to that bill.
Many of you signed the peitition against this bill and so these 'thank you's belong to you. We, too, are sometimes skeptical of the effectiveness of a petition, but in this case our collective voice from around the world helped turn the tide in Palau. Many of the signers of the bill were not just shark enthusiasts, but Palau's customers: those who fly across the world to visit Palau's sharks. All of your impassioned comments made a sizable contribution to this historic declaration by President Toribiong.
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Written by Administrator
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Saturday, 26 September 2009 10:29 |
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Here is the heart of the announcement made by Palau at the United Nations.
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 24 September 2009 22:36 |
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Palau's President Johnson Toribiong will announce that Palau will create a Shark Sanctuary in its waters.
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