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Trip to 7-Eleven leads Bangkok police to tiger butchers The Guardian UK By Kate Hodal It isn’t every day that a man with bloody hands emerges from a convenience store and returns home to continue chopping up tigers, zebras and wild buffalo in an underground slaughterhouse. So Thai police officers on a routine street patrol [...]
Shark Savers, Michael Skoletsky responding: Michael Skoletsky, Shark Savers wrote: We object to the interpretation in this article (Experts Swim Against Shark Fin Debate) that Professor Oakley of Shark Savers Malaysia agrees with Dr. Giam’s and Mr. Jenkins that sharks are not in urgent need of greater protection or that the shark fin trade is [...]
Obama campaigns at restaurant illegally serving shark fin soup SFGate.com By Carla Marinucci President Obama, who signed the Shark Conservation Act into law last month, apparently didn’t check out the menu before he made a surprise visit Thursday to a restaurant in San Francisco’s Chinatown that is among a handful still serving shark fin soup, [...]
The Dregs of Dictatorship By MOHAMED NASHEED DICTATORSHIPS don’t always die when the dictator leaves office. The wave of revolutions that toppled autocrats in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen last year was certainly cause for hope. But the people of those countries should be aware that, long after the revolutions, powerful networks of regime loyalists [...]
Introducing Derrick the Deathfin, PS3′s first underwater papercraft action game Joystiq.com By JC Fletcher Derrick the Deathfin is an angsty teenage shark who suffers tragedy when his parents are canned as shark fin soup. In response, Derrick begins a worldwide campaign of revenge, destroying every manmade structure he can find. Because he’s a shark, he [...]
Shark’s journey a first for science UT San Diego.com Written by Mike Lee An electronic ID tag from a rare shark spotted off the county’s coast in June has popped to the surface near Hawaii, providing local marine researchers with an unprecedented look into the long-distance movements of the second-largest known fish. Basking sharks have [...]
Whale Shark In Pakistan Raises More Questions Than Answers Huffington Post.com By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Video of a dead whale shark being pulled from the sea off of Pakistan raises more questions about the school-bus-size fish’s demise than it answers, scientists say. Pakistani newspaper The Express Tribune posted video on Tuesday (Feb. 7) [...]
A DIVER DISCOVERS A SHARK PASSION By guest blogger: Jessica Rodgers Yesterday I found myself in a familiar, yet precarious place again: perched atop my soapbox, denouncing the evil practice of shark finning. My audience probably started out captivated, but I am guessing that after five minutes they probably were growing disinterested at best, but [...]
Asian American Group Sues to Stop State Ban of Shark Fin Soup SF Weekly.com By Erin Sherbert The Chinese community is hoping a federal judge can force California to stop being a bunch of Soup Nazis. The Asian American Rights Committee of California filed a lawsuit in San Francisco this week, claiming the state’s move [...]
Sharks most often caught by Indonesia, India … and Spain? LA Times.com Sharks — they’re not for dinner. Not at the Herbal Café in Beijing, at least, where customers can belly up to a bowl of imitation shark-fin soup. Shunning the real thing has become a popular environmental statement in China, kind of like avoiding [...]
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