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Help FinFighters make the UK shark fin & meat free
UK shark conservation organisation Fin Fighters have just launched a CrowdFunder and need your help! Fin Fighters, who organise the popular annual SharkFest event, is on a mission to end the sale of shark fin and meat in the UK by 2023. Funds will be used to finish the documentary ‘Finito’, host UK filming screenings and provide positive, collaborative action workshops for those in the seafood industry.
THE BACK STORY…
British people eating shark. It may not sound plausible. But it happens every day! British people eating endangered shark? Yes, that’s happening here too. In top end restaurants, at fishmongers, in chip shops. And it isn’t illegal.
Fin Fighters want to work with people catching, distributing and selling shark to:
1. Protect sharks, especially the Endangered ones
2. Protect people – they’ve tested shark for heavy metals – they are seriously bad for you!
3. Protect the oceans by making sure the top predators don’t become extinct
This isn’t a problem isolated to the UK, but the organisation is based in Bristol so are starting their UK and global movement there. The CrowdFunder aims to change things locally and inspire change nationally.
In return for pledges there are some SERIOUSLY SHARKY thank you packages and heaps of sharky treats up for grabs – wildlife tours, film premiere tickets, SharkFest tickets, shark jewellery, your name in the documentary credits and loads more! There’s a matchfunding race and if Fin Fighters raise £4k in time they can DOUBLE their funds.
Make your pledge and find out more at: http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/uk-fin-free-by-2023
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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