Shark fin soup: a dangerous delicacy for humans and sharks alike Hong Kong’s shark fin trade is still robust, even given recent scares over unsafe mercury levels. But public attitudes towards consumption are slowly changing Jarred fins available in a pharmacy Photograph: Lauren Smith Lauren Smith It’s early February two days before the Chinese New…
HKSF joined the event, Agent for Change, held by EFS in February. In March, EFS reported this event in their newsletter and mentioned HKSF. 900 primary students participate in Agents of Change Conference The 2nd “Agents of Change” conference was successfully held on Friday, 26 February 2016, at Kowloon Junior School. The event gathered representatives…
HK Express HK Express is Hong Kong’s low-fare airline. Independent flight statistic monitoring website flightstats.com has already recognised HK Express for its top On-Time-Performance (OTP) rate. The airline has become a leader in Hong Kong aviation industry by focusing on low fares, best-in-class on-time performance and safety while revolutionising air travel throughout the Asia…
Ecozine has just interviewed Hong Kong Shark Foundation from looking at shark finning and how our atitudes and our culture in HK are changing towards this horrendous practice, but how we still have much more to do. To see the whole article, you may click the following link: http://www.ecozine.com/article/dying-for-fins
Thank you to The Ocean restaurant for purchasing corporate tickets to our coming fundraising dinner held on 9 March. Looking forward to seeing you all there! For others who would like to join, please refer to the following link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1507203832933541/
Hong Kong Shark Foundation was invited by RTHK Radio 3 to share about shark conservation and attempts to get sharkfin off the menu. To listen to complete radio programme, click the following link (Part 3) : http://programme.rthk.hk/channel/radio/programme.php?name=radio3/sunday_escape&d=2016-02-28&p=6525&e=347446&m=episode
Meet the New Sharks of 2015 The worn and weary phrase “There’s more fish in the sea” isn’t just cold solace for heartbroken saps, but for shark biologists, this means more discoveries of new species. Another year of science closes, giving us pause to review those new species of sharks described in the scientific literature, bringing…
A 9 years old girl found a shark teeth fossil when she was having a walk on beach. She originally thought that was a weird-shaped rock until she found another one few days later. She then took the rocks to an expert and discovered that the rocks were actually shark teeth fossils. For full news…
Orient Overseas (International) Limited decided not to ship dolphin/whale/shark products anymore and showed their willingness on environmental protection. For full news ( Chinese), please refer to the following link: http://www.hk01.com/%E7%92%B0%E4%BF%9D/7817/-%E6%9D%B1%E6%96%B9%E6%B5%B7%E5%A4%96-%E5%AE%A3%E5%B8%83%E6%8B%92%E9%81%8B%E9%AD%9A%E7%BF%85-%E9%A1%98%E8%82%A9%E8%B2%A0%E4%BF%9D%E8%82%B2%E9%87%8D%E4%BB%BB-%E7%92%B0%E5%9C%98-%E6%A8%99%E8%AA%8C%E6%80%A7%E6%B1%BA%E5%AE%9A
On Feb 3, a large number of shark corpses were found in Taiwan. All of them are juvenile and their fins were cut. For full news (Chinese) , please refer to the following link: http://www.ettoday.net/news/20160203/643233.htm
