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Sign petition to stop Bumble Bee, Starkist, and Chicken of the Sea’s destructive fishing
Imagine — thousands upon thousands of sharks, sea turtles, even seabirds, hooked… stuck… often killed or injured and tossed back to sea.
Year after year. It’s the side of the massive canned tuna industry that the public never gets to see. But to tuna brands like Bumble Bee, Chicken of the Sea, and Starkist, it’s just business as usual.
Take action now to tell Bumble Bee, Starkist, and Chicken of the Sea to stop destructive fishing!
Greenpeace surveyed US tuna companies to release their first Canned Tuna Guide and exposed what these three big tuna brands don’t want consumers to know. These companies are plundering the ocean using unsustainable industrial fishing practices, even while competitors leave these outdated methods behind.
This gruesome picture can be changed. With enough consumer pressure in the US these companies can be forced to clean up their act and start fishing for tuna more sustainably. Other companies have already done it thanks to people speaking out — they realize that what’s good for our oceans is also good for business.
Humans depend on healthy oceans to survive. But these three big tuna brands — which together own 80% of the tuna market — are destroying delicate ocean ecosystems without a second thought. Bumble Bee alone has been linked to destructive fishing practices, and even shark finning.
Of course, all three big tuna brands refuse to provide consumers any information about their supply chain. They’re even withholding basic labeling information like what species is actually in the can!
It’s clear these big brands don’t care about bycatch, but they do care about the bottom line. That’s why your voice as a consumer is so important right now.
This is truly a crisis point for the World’s oceans. Globally, the effects of overfishing, climate change, and pollution are bringing ocean ecosystems to the brink of ecological collapse. And there isn’t much time to reverse course.
That’s why Greenpeace is campaigning to convince all who affect the ocean — from tuna companies to governments — to stop acting as if they are bottomless. Now.
It is a hard fight, but it’s never been more important.
Canned tuna giants Bumble Bee, Starkist, and Chicken of the Sea are killing tens of thousands of rays, sharks, and sea turtles each year with their fishing practices. Send them a message now to change their gruesome methods.
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Dive Worldwide Announces Bite-Back as its Charity of the Year
Over the next 12 months, specialist scuba holiday company Dive Worldwide will be supporting Bite-Back Shark & Marine Conservation with donations collected from client bookings to any one of its stunning dive destinations around the world. The independently-owned operator expects to raise £3000 for the UK charity.
Manager at Dive Worldwide, Phil North, said: “We’re especially excited to work with Bite-Back and support its intelligent, creative and results-driven campaigns to end the UK trade in shark products and prompt a change in attitudes to the ocean’s most maligned inhabitant.”
Bite-Back is running campaigns to hold the media to account on the way it reports shark news along with a brand new nationwide education programme. Last year the charity was credited for spearheading a UK ban on the import and export of shark fins.
Campaign director at Bite-Back, Graham Buckingham, said: “We’re enormously grateful to Dive Worldwide for choosing to support Bite-Back. The company’s commitment to conservation helps set it apart from other tour operators and we’re certain its clients admire and respect that policy. For us, the affiliation is huge and helps us look to the future with confidence we can deliver against key conservation programmes.”
To launch the fundraising initiative, Phil North presented Graham Buckingham with a cheque for £1,000.
Visit Dive Worldwide to discover its diverse range of international scuba adventures and visit Bite-Back to learn more about the charity’s campaigns.
MORE INFORMATION
Call Graham Buckingham on 07810 454 266 or email graham@bite-back.com
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Scubapro Free Octopus Promotion 2024
Free Octopus with every purchase of a SCUBAPRO regulator system
Just in time for the spring season, divers can save money with the FREE OCTOPUS SPRING PROMOTION! Until July 31st SCUBAPRO offers an Octopus for free
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More information available on www.scubapro.com.
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