Check out Bart Lukasik’s contribution to Project’s Aware Big Shark Shoutout 2012. The whole purpose of the campaign is to raise awareness of the on going latest threats that sharks are facing. Such an important campaign and something I hope all surfers will think about helping to spread the word about.

Check out this post from the Wicked Diving group as they share a very sad video of what really happens during shark finning. You’ve seen lots of footage about the large scale effects of shark finning, now it’s time to show you the small scale effects on the shark population. Shockingly sad.

Not to be a one trick pony or anything but when you see pictures in videos like this it really gets my goat. So I feel I need to share it if only to help continue to raise awareness about this awful, wasteful industry. The fins don’t taste of anything, they’re full of mercury and [...]

Singapore ranks second after Hong Kong when it comes to the shark fin industry but a new global effort to save sharks started in Singapore on Tuesday when the Animal Concerns Research & Education Society (ACRES) and Shark Savers Singapore organized a public concert where local celebrities and conservationists stood in unison sharing the same [...]

Check out this video which won as the 2010 and 2011 Official Selection in Surfilm Festival, Adventure Film Festival Chile and the Save The Waves Film Festival. The film is about Captain Paul Watson and Dave Rastovich protecting the marine environment and also features surfers Ramon Navarro, Keith Malloy and Timmy Turner. A stonking good [...]

Dr. Giam Choo Hoo, a member of the CITES Animals Committee from Singapore, outraged the environmental community back in February when he claimed that eating shark fin soup helped poor fishermen in developing countries (I guess he’ll be making the case that oppressive regimes help arms dealers stay in business which is good too right?) [...]