Want to know what gives us HOPE at Hong Kong Shark Foundation 香港護鯊會 during this Covid pandemic? Teaching kids about the importance of sharks gives us hope! And yesterday our Executive Director Andrea Richey zoom taught 100 students ages 7-8 years old about shark conservation at the 宏信書院 ELCHK Lutheran Academy in HK and she…
Honoured to have spoken for the first time to 120 F2 local students at Madam Lau Kam Lung Secondary School Of Miu Fat Buddhist Monastery in Tun Mun New Territories. As part of their OLE, Hong Kong Shark Foundation discussed shark and ocean conservation, pollution in the food chain and why we need sharks to protect our…
Exciting day at Esf Kennedy School teaching 150 Year 4 students about the importance of sharks to our ocean and our planet ! Enormous thank you to Teacher Colleen for her wonderful and kind support of our mission at Hong Kong Shark Foundation 香港護鯊會 to raise awareness and save sharks . The energy and the…
Congrats Hong Kong Shark Foundation 香港護鯊會! Today we hit a milestone teaching 1050 students about shark conservation at Shatin College in Hong Kong ! HKSF was honoured to help kickoff STC’s student driven “Ocean Week 2021” focusing on ocean conservation, SDG #14 #LifeBelowWater and the importantance of sharks . 1/3 of the shark species is…
Recently, a group of English Schools Foundation 英基學校協會 ESF Sha Tin College students organised ‘Ocean Week’ at their school consisting of 4 days of school activities with the aim of educating students and raising awareness about ocean and shark 🦈 conservation. ‘As climate change intensifies, the ocean will experience more and more adverse effects,’ commented student head…
Interested in hearing from animal advocates in Hong Kong?🇭🇰 Join Animal Alliance Asia’s Conference 2021 “Hong Kong Hour” at 6:30pm Hong Kong time, on November 22nd! In this panel discussion conducted in English, Kim J McCoy (麥劍祺) of Hong Kong Animal Law and Protection Organisation (HKALPO) and our own Executive Director Andrea Richey will discuss…
To have a healthy ocean, we need healthy aquatic animals like sharks. Yet ocean conservation and aquatic welfare advocacy has been completely soiled and our work is becoming more challenging. I will be joining an esteemed panel at The Aquatic Life Institute’s upcoming “2nd Aquatic Life Conference” to discuss “How Ocean Conservation and Aquatic Animal…
People frequently ask me if shark fin soup consumption is down? Given what I witnessed today, what do you think?!? 💔 Today, while on an educational walking tour of the dried shark fin market in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 , we saw over 80 fresh & raw shark 🦈 fins drying on the street. This killing…
Fantastic 1st time for Hong Kong Shark Foundation 香港護鯊會to teach college students at Lingnan University in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 and we were thoroughly impressed with their enthusiasm and engagement. Over 80 students attended our “Sharks In Crisis” 🦈 talk as part of Lingnan University’s “Science, Society and Sustainability Series 2021“. As educators a.k.a. farmers planting…
The global shark fin trade is cruel and unsustainable, fueled by a rising demand for shark fin soup in Hong Kong and China. Morocco’s national airline, Royal Air Maroc, still carries cruel and unsustainable shark fin as cargo on its flights out of the country, despite the fact that two of its shareholders, Iberia and…
