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Shark Finning Bans Made Simple.

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(Dive Travel Business News - May 4, 2012) -- As Europe enters the final stages of debate on a proposal to close the loopholes in the shark finning ban, find out what finning is, why the current regulation isn’t good enough.

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Bolongo Bay Beach Resort offers Paws for a Vacation Program

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Bolongo Bay Beach Resort offers Paws for a Vacation Program

(Dive Travel Business News - May 1, 2012) --  Popular Dive Hotel in St Thomas USVI, the Bolongo Bay Beach Resort has partnered with the Humane Society of St. Thomas for an island pet adoption program. Guests who “Paws for Vacation” and adopt a cat or dog from the Humane Society of St. Thomas will receive a 30% discount on the room-only plan in both Oceanview and Beachfront rooms, located just steps from the sand.

Available CATS and DOGS can be viewed at the Humane Society of St. Thomas website. On the first day of the guest's vacation, the resort also provides complimentary roundtrip taxi to the Humane Society of St. Thomas to meet the new furry family member and begin the adoption process. The process typically takes three business days. read more »

Komodo National Park under Heavy Threat by Illegal Fishing

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Komodo National Park under Heavy Threat by Illegal Fishing

(Dive Travel Business News - April 27, 2012) -- Komodo National Park, a 500,000-acre reserve in eastern Indonesia, is a UN World Heritage site that is currently under great threat by illegal fishing. Coral gardens that were among Asia’s most spectacular, teeming with colorful sea life just a few months ago, have been transformed into desolate gray moonscapes by illegal fishermen who use home made bombs or cyanide to kill or stun their prey.  A few of the Komodo National Parks valued diving locations have very recently been blasted beyond recognition.

Komodo National Park spans several dusty, tan-colored volcanic islands and is most famous for its Komodo dragons, the world’s largest lizards. Its remote and hard-to-reach waters also burst with staggering levels of diversity, from corals in fluorescent reds and yellows to octopuses with lime-green banded eyes to black-and-blue sea snakes. read more »

Project AWARE Welcomes New Executive Director

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Project AWARE Welcomes New Executive Director

(Dive Travel Business News - April 20, 2012) -- Project AWARE Foundation is honored to welcome Alex Earl as Executive Director. A committed marine conservationist and enthusiastic diver, Alex has lived and worked in four countries and dived in many regions of the world including the Philippines, Australia, Tanzania, Fiji, Tahiti, Canada and the United States.

Alex draws from an extensive background in global non-profit management, strategic planning, program development, campaigning, fundraising, and business development as well as extensive cross-cultural and international experience. Earl has learned first-hand that the challenges of protecting and conserving the marine ecosystems that provide these experiences are growing exponentially year by year. read more »

Divers Mobilize on Earth Day to Save Sharks

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Divers Mobilize on Earth Day to Save Sharks

(DIve Travel Business News- April 16, 2012) -- This Earth Day and throughout April, Project AWARE and divers worldwide call on local communities to rally support for the protection of the world’s most vulnerable shark species by signing and organizing petition signatures to protect heavily traded species. Nearly 100,000 concerned divers and shark advocates have already signed their support for Project AWARE’s shark petition. But additional support is needed to ensure the voices of global shark advocates are heard.

Project AWARE Foundation and its global movement of divers are also producing the Big Shark Shout Out.  Big Shark Shout Out events will span the globe and include shark petition rallies, education events and seminars. read more »

World Ocean Council to Join Ocean Expert Group for UN Conference on Sustainable Development.

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World Ocean Council to Join UN Expert Group on Oceans at Rio +20 Conference

(Dive Travel Business News - January 11, 2012) -- The World Ocean Council (WOC) efforts to create an unprecedented cross-sectoral industry alliance for leadership on ocean sustainability has got the attention of the United Nations. WOC will participate in the U.N. Secretary General’s five-person ocean expert group to help shape international efforts for ocean sustainability. In addition to the private sector WOC, the four other experts in the group represent government, academic and non-government organizations will join the Ocean Expert group.

The oceans have been declared as one of 8 thematic priorities for the upcoming “Rio + 20” – the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development taking place in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012.   The U.N. Secretary General’s ocean expert group will develop an "Oceans Compact" for this event. read more »

Sargasso's Seaweed Trek to the Caribbean.

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Sargasso's Seaweed trek to the Caribbean

(Dive Travel Business News - October 17, 2011) -- Since June the Eastern Caribbean has been invaded by an extraordinary volume of seaweed, sending resorts and government agencies, from Anguilla in the north to Tobago in the south, scrambling to rid beaches of the smelly, brown, bug-attracting algae before the impending high season.

While small amounts of Sargassum are normally found in the Caribbean from May to September when regional currents and winds transport the floating algae to the islands, such large accumulations across so many regions have never before been recorded.  

So much Sargassum seaweed has been washing up on Eastern Caribbean beaches this summer and fall that St. James's Club & Villas in Antigua was forced to close for several weeks in September where the weed, a floating species of algae that inhabits the Sargasso Sea, had completely filled the bay on which the hotel sits, leaving piles as high as five feet tall along the usually pristine shore.  read more »

Shark Research Institute offered matching grant

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Hong Kong is the largest importer of shark fins in the world

(Dive Travel Business News - Sept 13, 2010) -- The Shark Research Institute has been offered a matching grant of $50,000 for a media campaign project - which means in order to receive the funds, we must raise $50,000 for this project.

The project is a media campaign in Hong Kong to inform the public about the very high levels of methylmercury and other toxins in sharks, why it is so dangerous to consume sharks and other large marine predators, and the effects of methylmercury in humans and developing fetuses. (Hong Kong is the largest importer of shark fins in the world).

This project will receive the much-needed match grant if every member will donate $5 (a.k.a. a Fin) .

Donations can be sent by check to: SRI, PO Box 40, Princeton NJ 08540, USA, read more »

77 Nations Agree to Ban Inhumane Practice of Shark Finning at Sea

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Shark Finning at Sea Banned

(Dive Travel Business News - July 11, 2010) -- NEW YORK, NY - In an historic step, delegates to the Fish Stocks Conference at the United Nations voted unanimously to end shark finning at sea. read more »

Final Push to Stop the Whale Hunt!

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The time is now to save the whales - Please sign the Avaaz anti-whaling petition. Read why here. See article links below for more information.

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