Lesley Rochat LIVE FROM CITES: Vote results for porbeable shark to be listed on Appendix II secret ballot so we won’t know what the different countries voted: For=86 Against=46 Abstentions=8 THE PROPOSAL IS ACCEPTED!!! Many didn’t think we would be successful after the defeat of the hammerhead and the oceanic whitetip, myself included, but we are…
Category Archives: Sharks
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Mar
Mar
The hammerhead proposal has been rejected and so has the oceanic whitetip. The secret vote results for the hammerhead are: for:75, against:45, abstentions:14 (missed by 5 votes) and the oceanic whitetip are for:75, against:51, abstentions:16. This defeat is a massive blow for shark conservation as we had hoped that by listing them onto CITES Appendix…
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Mar
Mar
Some good things have come out of CITES despite all the disappointments, like the elies today, and the little frogs the other, and then making new friends who support what you do. This cartoon was done for me by Shujaat Ali, a gifted political cartoonist for Aljazeera Network who came to the screening of Sharks…
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Mar
Mar
Whether the elephant victory at CITES today means anything for the sharks tomorrow is yet to be seen but if the interview I had with Chief Counselor of Fisheries Agency of Japan is anything to go by then I would say not. When asking him if they would be taking a more positive position with…
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Mar
Mar
Today I spoke to a delegate from Namibia, who told me that Namibia, as far as he knows has no shark finning problem at all, and that he loves shark fin soup, which he orders every time he goes to Mauritius, because it tastes so good. I went on to express both my bewilderment that…
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Mar
Mar
Gandhi once said that a nation’s greatness is measured by the way it treats its animals. 175 Nations will attend the 15th conference of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) from the 13th to 25th March in Doha, Qatar, and have a chance to prove their…
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Feb
Feb
During my recent photographic expedition aboard the Sea Horse around the stunning Radja Ampat, which was a prize for one of the awards Sharks in Deep Trouble won last year, I had the privilege to meet the wobbegong shark. Though my fellow divers saw a wobbegong on almost every dive and John Bantin of Diver…
06
Feb
Feb
In general there are very few sharks left in Radja Ampat and though I saw some wobbegongs, the odd black tip and white tip, local shark conservationist Andy Miners of the Misool Eco Resort, told me that most have been killed by local longliners who continue to catch the remaining few. Andy’s efforts in helping…
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Feb
Feb
Quote for the day, I like this one more: ‘We should be cutting lies instead of trees.’ Jerry Martien, Salvage This PS: I promise I will put more pix up of Radja Ampat soon…
Conservation, Shark Finning, Sharks
Sea Shepherd’s Shark Finning Film (warning: not for sensitive viewers)
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Dec
Dec
I was recently sent this link, which is on YouTube. Judging by the comments it is upsetting a lot of people. It is brutal. It is also a direct analogy to the barbaric practice of shark finning. Sharks in Deep Trouble has equally violent footage, but of sharks being finned, blood squirting from their finless…