Sentences with phrase «shark fin trade»

The Pew Environment Group has released revealing photos of the huge and brutal shark fin trade in Taiwan.

Although the total volume of shark fin traded is declining, more than 70 countries now participate in the trade, with more joining every year.

Pretoma, a small conservation group with a budget of $ 300,000 annually, has worked tirelessly in the past decade to draw attention to the highly lucrative global shark fin trade.

Seventeen municipalities in Canada and numerous U.S. states have banned shark fin trading, but it continues to be a huge problem.

Cycling for Sharks» event in the heart of Beijing raised public awareness and support for sharks, whose numbers are declining worldwide due to the cruel shark finning trade.

What's really the unnecessary toll on Costa Rica's reputation here, the very curiously timed and executed arrest of Paul Watson or the continued illegal shark fin trade (which only exists because of government corruption at some level) that Watson and Sea Shepherd put themselves in harms way to prevent?

By combining that data with records from shark fin trading houses, the researchers determined that the volume of shark fins represented in the trade is three to four times higher than reported catches.»

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It has no nutritional value and is the main driver of the multi-billion dollar international shark fin trade.

Thank you, New York, for opting out of the deadly shark fin trade that is primarily responsible for devastating shark populations throughout the world.»

Our success will hopefully lead to additional nationwide actions to stop the inhumane and ecologically devastating shark fin trade.»

Although shark fins aren't widely consumed in the country, a growing demand from China has encouraged Indonesian fishermen to catch more and more sharks, making Indonesia one of the largest players in the global shark fin trade.

A new analysis of worldwide customs and trade data published in the journal Biological Conservation confirms that shark - fin trade has dropped by approximately 25 percent over the last decade «Although we can't say that we fully understand the scale or the cause of the shark fin trade decline in China, it seems safe to conclude that demand for fins is waning, and that sounds like good news for sharks,» says global shark fin trade expert Shelley Clarke, a co-author on this study.

«Given that sharks are in decline on reefs worldwide, largely due to the shark fin trade, this information may prove integral to restoration and conservation efforts.»

Madison Stewart, Fusion's resident Shark Girl, visits Indonesia to explore the heart of the shark fin trade.

There is no place for the shark fin trade in the U.S.... or anywhere.

There's a good summary of the state of the shark fin trade in the original article, but here's the payoff regarding diminished demand for shark fin soup:

Talk and film by David McGuire on a trans Pacific sailing voyage filming, diving with sharks and exposing the shark fin trade.

The shark fin trade has boomed in the past half century and has significantly depleted shark species.

In fact, shark fin trading has dropped by as much as 82 percent in some parts of the country and continues to decline.

In fact, many of the 12 Pacific Rim countries negotiating the secretive trade pact — Malaysia, Vietnam, and Singapore, to name a few — have a long and bloody history in the shark fin trade.

As word has spread of the moral and environmental horrors associated with the shark fin trade, governments throughout the world have begun enacting bans on the sale and possession of that cruel commodity — and now the world's largest cargo airline is getting in on the act.

In Hong Kong, McGuire estimates the shark fin trade has been cut in half.

Interpol's alert squares with other reports that the shark fin trade continues.

WildAid is campaigning to reduce shark fin consumption in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Thailand, and to secure further restrictions to the global shark fin trade.

Some US states have already implemented bans on the shark fin trade, including Oregon, Hawaii, Washington and California.

But the city is the main hub for the world's shark fin trade.

Suffice to say, shark fin is culturally embedded in Chinese cuisine, medicine and folklore - an institution of sorts that needs to be understood and addressed by activists worldwide, if the campaign to stop the shark fin trade is going to be realistically effective.

Today's announcement protects the Maldives» tourism industry from the the ravages of the shark fin trade.

It follows Hawaii and Washington to hammer down on the shark fin trade, and helps with the federal government's legislation on shark finning in US waters.

While shark finning is illegal in the U.S., current federal laws banning the practice do not address the issue of the shark fin trade, so shark fins are imported to the U.S. from countries with few or even no shark protections in place,» notes Oceana.

In a move to end the shark fin trade within California, the state assembly passed AB376, on a 62 - 8 vote Monday afternoon, as TreeHugger Stephen Messenger reported.

Shark finning is an irresponsible practice driven by the shark fin trade which kills millions of sharks every year.

See photos of Taiwan's shark finning trade»

Marie Levine, executive director of the Shark Research Institute, said: «Much of the shark fin trade uses fins hacked off living sharks.

Elizabeth Hogan, campaign manager for World Society for the Protection of Animals, said: «Shark finning is an extremely cruel and inhumane practice driven by the shark fin trade in which fishermen catch sharks, cut off their fins and throw the still - living animals back into the water, where they die slow and horrifically painful deaths.

Ending the shark fin trade is a very important step in reversing the damage we have done through this unnecessary and wasteful practice.»