Mad as a Marine Biologist

Singapore’s anti-Shark Fin Momentum!

Guys, guys, guys! It’s seriously exciting in Singapore right now! 

After a seafood supplier’s completely unprofessional employee wrote this on their facebook page (read more here): 

“Screw the divers! Shark’s fin & Mola Mola will be launched at NTUC Fairprice outlets during CNY 2012!”

Singapore’s major supermarket chain denounced them as a supplier AND has pledged to buy no more Shark Fin products!

The whole controversy has thrust the Shark Fin debate into the limelight, and the story has been picked up by several news outlets, including the newspaper in Singapore, The Straits Times! 

 

The whole thing is snowballing. Another supermarket Carrefour has announced that it will stop selling shark fin products by the end of the year!! 

I cannot tell you how exciting it is to see this change in the making. Two major supermarket chains will stop selling shark fin products, all because of the power of social media. I urge you to join this “revolution”.

Because of the publicity, this isn’t one of those empty pledges or petitions that you put your name and email and never hear of again. Your support will be heard. This scandal has opened up this debate at a crucial time of year! 

There is a ‘cause’ on facebook petitioning for a Shark Fin Free Singapore by 2013. Your support would make a huge difference. If successful, we will have eliminated a major demand for shark fins. Singapore would be blazing a trail for other countries like China/Hong Kong to follow. 

There are already more than 2,400 members. It took much much less than that to get shark fin off the shelves of NTUC. Imagine what we could do with global support?

Screw the divers: The sad tale of Thern Da Seafood Pte Ltd.

Fancy some Mola Mola soup?

A few days ago, I witnessed an epic ground breaking turn around of events for the anti-shark fin movement on Facebook.

From an inciendiary status update announcing that “Screw the divers, Shark Fin and Mola Mola products to be available [in Singapore’s largest supermarket chain] by Chinese New Year” …

…to that supply company removing it’s Facebook page after being flooded with comments…

…to that that Supermarket chain (NTUC FairPrice) denouncing the supply company and announcing it would make no further orders for Shark Fin products!

THIS IS HUGE FOR SINGAPORE - another major supermarket chain, Cold Storage, already denounced shark fin in October last year.

This little controversy has boosted awareness of the anti-shark fin movement at it’s busiest time - the run up to Chinese New Year!

Read more & follow the resulting facebook group 

Cold Storage - a Singaporean supermarket chain - gives the cold shoulder to shark's fin products!

Prominent Singapore-based supermarket chain Cold Storage has joined the WWF Singapore Sustainable Seafood Group and marked its commitment with an announcement that it will stop selling all shark fin and shark products in its 42 outlets across the country.

This is a HUGE step for Singapore where the sharks fin industries flourishes.

PETITION: Help Free the "Sentosa 25" from Resort World in Sentosa, Singapore!

anoceanactivist:

News that 25 bottlenose dolphins that once roamed free and wild are now facing a life of captivity and sadness as permanent residents of Resorts World - Sentosa, Singapore.

These 25 dolphins were captured in the waters of the Solomon Islands and are now being kept in the Philippines while the new facility at Resorts World Sentosa is being built. Two of them have already tragically died. Ric O’Barry, the marine mammal specialist has also offered his help to rehabilitate and release the dolphins back to the wild, in the Solomon Islands, off Papua New Guinea.

Please sign and share!

 We got them to reconsider the whale shark [though they say it wasn’t due to public pressure], why not more?