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At Shark Savers, we are frequently asked by people interested in sharks what they can do in their communities and localities to help protect sharks.
Our Ban the Fin program is designed to empower you to make a difference and become a grassroots shark advocate in your community. Ban the Fin is a self-managed campaign designed to help you organize grassroots support in your community or neighborhood for the protection of sharks. With Ban the Fin, you can educate your neighbors and colleagues and then encourage them to pledge that they will not condone or participate in the sale, purchase, or possession of shark products. The goal is to motivate a school, university, workplace, home-owners association, church, sports team, any other community group, and ultimately an entire community, to declare themselves for the sharks and against their destruction. You could become a Volunteer Campaign Captain. When you become a Volunteer Campaign Captain, you have access to Shark Savers' tools to educate and effect change within community groups. We have created easy-to-follow instructions in our Create your own Ban the Fin Campaign guide. Please Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist gegen Spambots geschützt! JavaScript muss aktiviert werden, damit sie angezeigt werden kann. your feedback, experiences, and ideas to help the program evolve.Ban the Fin's grass-roots approach builds on recent successes in territories, states, communities and towns across the world. Shark Savers has worked successfully with other conservation groups and dedicated individuals to support the passage of laws to ban the sale and possession of shark products in Hawaii, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Oregon, and Washington. Shark Savers is working with a coalition of organizations to support the passage of a statewide shark fin ban in California. While seeking a legal ban on the shark fin trade is a desirable goal, we recognize that creating laws is an undertaking that not every shark advocate is ready to take on and not every city is ready to enact it. Ban the Fin allows you to make progress towards that goal by building the constituency for sharks in your community. As you succeed in signing up a community, organization, school, local team or group to the Ban the Fin cause, Shark Savers will add that group to the our Fin-Free Map (in development). Together, one group at a time, we will make the world safe for sharks.Click here to get started creating your own Ban the Fin campaign! "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." ~ Margaret Mead |
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Ban the Fin
