Saturday, January 24, 2009

Anti-Finning Protest


Tomorrow is the anti-finning protest in San Francisco's Chinatown! If you happen to read this and you're in the Bay area, please join them. I plan on monitoring the Shark Safe project blogsite for details throughout the day. I will relay them to you.

See my previous post for information about the protest as well as previous posts for information about the destructiveness of shark finning.

The Chinatown protests tomorrow are taking a different form than the standard marching and chanting that is so common, especially in San Francisco. They're dividing in small groups, thereby spreading throughout the whole area, and targeting restaurants that serve shark fin soup. Shark Safe project is trying to educate and inform restauranteurs and patrons of the health risks of consuming shark products (high mercury levels) as well as the dangers to our oceans. Please see their latest blog for more information. It's an excellent approach, and I'm excited to hear how it goes tomorrow!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I made you a lego anti finning animation to draw attention to the shark finning campaign in a different light its in support of the shark trust

hope you like it, feel free to spread the word use as you wish, and embed as you wish let me know where it goes just out of interest.


Bali B

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZePhRM73b8