Seniors Tarra La Valley and Emma Giboney’s newly created Environmental Studies club seeks to rally Mills women to petition the selling of shark cartilage products in local health food stores, which contributes to an estimated 100 million sharks that are killed annually for their fins.

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Thank you Mills College.

See our call for entries here.
We thought readers of Abandon Fear would be interested in participating in the fun!  With its focus on shark education, this site it the perfect outlet to generate hype about Shark Week 2010’s online, promotional campaign.

A little about the submissions, also part of the video above:

-  entries must include the words “Happy Shark Week”
-  entries must be an acapella version of the song “Boom De Ya Da” (see Discovery Channel’s popular promo here.
Beyond that, we hope submitters will get creative!

We will be combining the best video submissions into one single video to be posted on Discovery’s SHARK WEEK website as a representation of the vast spectrum of fanatics.

Pangea Seed is pleased to announce our recent partnership with Ecojoia.  Ecojoia supports the merchandise needs of environmental and humanitarian non-profit organizations, with the goal of increasing their fund raising capabilities and simultaneously spreading cause awareness. Selling products made from environmentally conscious materials such as certified organic cotton and earth-friendly dyes and screen printing, wherever possible.

For the release of our first t-shirt, we’ve partnered together with Rob Stewart (Sharkwater) with artwork created by PangeaSeed supporting artist Dave Kinsey to help raise awareness of the global shark plight. Every shirt sold will directly benefit PangeaSeed and Rob Stewart to support our anti-shark finning campaigns.  Mens and Womens sizes/cuts available.

PangeaSeed is the first organization in Japan to raise public awareness regarding shark conservation and preservation. We rely on the generosity of our supporters.

Be on the look out for more great t-shirts designed by world-renowned artists such as skate/surf legend Jim Phillips and New Zealand wonderboys Sideroom.com   Follow the link below to get your shirt today!  Summers never looked so good!

Ecojoia
PangaSeed T-Shirts on Ecojoia Website
PangaSeed Profile on Ecojoia Website

Cheers and thanks for your support,

PS3

A hawaiian monk seal swimming. Image: James Watt/NOAA

Ilio-holo-ikauaua (ee-lee-o holo ee ka ooa-ooa) meaning ‘dog that runs in the sea ’

The Hawaiian monk seal has thrived for the past 13 million years in the oceanic waters and coral reefs of the Hawaiian Islands. Today, the Hawaiian monk seal is critically endangered and headed toward extinction. Hawaiian monk seals are the most endangered endemic marine mammal in the USA and one of the most endangered marine mammals in the world. Over the last 50 years, the Hawaiian monk seal population has declined by more than 60% and is now at its lowest level in recorded history. Fewer than 1200 Hawaiian monk seals remain in the wild. Reasons for the decline of the monk seal include: overfishing, limited food availability, entanglement in marine debris, habitat loss, shark predation, competition for food, aggressive male behavior, deaths of pups, an aging population, harmful algal blooms, and global climate change.

THE CAMPAIGN

The only way to stop the dolphin slaughter is to keep showing up in these remote villages and going on patrol. We will continue monitoring, advocating, filming, and bringing international media attention to the dolphin slaughter and the related captures. One of the main reasons that the killing continues is that very few people — in Japan and around the world — even know it is happening. Worldwide exposure of the slaughter is the key to stopping it.

When the hunt is over each day, the bodies of the dolphins are hauled away to the slaughterhouse for processing. Our team tries to photograph the butchering in order to get the information out to the Japanese people, but we are constantly blocked by the Taiji dolphin killers. They don’t want the public to know about their dirty, little secret, so they spend a lot of time covering it up. They know that if  the Japanese public and the world learn the truth about this barbaric practice, world opinion would immediately put an end to it.

The whalers in Taiji told us not to take any photographs. They said that if our photos and video footage get out to the rest of the world, it would pressure the authorities in Tokyo to deny them permits for the annual dolphin slaughter.

Our campaign has brought tremendous international attention to the slaughter. The killings are carried out in remote fishing villages, and the dolphin hunters are not used to being monitored and exposed to this degree. It is becoming more and more difficult for them to keep the slaughter a secret from the world.

We need to continue returning to Japan to document the dolphin massacres and give the photos and video footage away to the media, free of charge. We will continue to encourage journalists to return to Japan with us. Exposing these crimes against nature is crucial to the success of our campaign.

We need your help to get the word out quickly.

Help keep our team on the ground in Japan.

Now, countries are deciding whether to support it — or push back. Already, New Zealand’s Foreign Minister has described some provisions as “unacceptable,” “inflammatory,” and “offensive.”

A massive global outcry is needed now, as other key countries choose how to react. Avaaz will deliver this petition to the Commission delegates each time it adds another 100,000 signatures – sign below and spread the word!

TAKE ACTION NOW!

Commentary by Captain Paul Watson
“What a piece of work is a man, how ignoble in reason, how finite in faculties, in form and moving how crude and contemptible, in action how like a destroying demon, in apprehension how like a cruel god! the scourge of the world, he most monstrous of all animals— and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Mankinds foul butchery delights not me, nor the living things of the Earth, or woman neither, though by their cynical smiling, he Danes seem to say so.“

- Shakespeare revised for modern times.
- Torn from Hamlet and butchered by the author to illustrate a point.

Please click here to read more about this horrible atrocity going on in the Faroe Islands.   You can write and e-mail your protests of this practice to:

DENMARK CONTACTS:

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen
The Prime Minister’s Office
Christiansborg
Prins Jørgens Gård 11
1218 Copenhagen K
E-mail stm@stm.dk
Telephone +45 33 92 33 00
Fax +45 33 11 16 65

The Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries The Department
Slotsholmsgade 12
DK-1260 Copenhagen V
Denmark
Tel +45 33 92 33 01
Fax +45 33 14 50 42
Press service: +45 20 91 59 01
E-mail: fvm@fvm.dk
www.fvm.dk

FAROE ISLANDS:

Kaj Leo Johannesen
Prime Minister’s Office
Løgmansskrivstovan
Tinganes
P.O.Box 64
FO- 110 Tórshavn
Tel: +298 306000
Fax: +298 306015
E-mail: info@tinganes.fo

Fiskimálaráðið
Ministry of Fisheries
Heykavegur 6A
P.O. Box 347
FO-110 Tórshavn
Faroe Islands
Tel. (+298) 353030
Fax (+298) 353035
fisk@fisk.fo

Avgreiðslutíðir:
Mánadag - Hósdag 8 – 16
Fríggjadag 8 - 15

Friday, April 23rd @ 7:00pm
Rock Hill Bakehouse Cafe
19 Exchange Street
Glens Falls, NY 12801

Jessica

The Pangaea Shark Project is a Satellite project to Mike Horns Pangaea Expedition

Our aim is to use our network of young adults from around the world to take an active part of repairing damage that has been done to our planet. We established the Shark Project as we see the need to act fast, as sharks are under threat.

We started to make some t-shirt designs, which are for sale online, and will get sold through sponsor websites, as well through our network in schools all around the world. 100% of the sales profit is going to be used for shark conservation projects.

Phase two will be start running campaigns to educate the youth, especially in Asian countries, so hopefully traditions can be broken and the shark consumption can be reduced to a more sustainable level, and shark finning is going to become illegal.

We are already working with governments, scientists, sponsors and ambassadors, but we hope the t-shirts with some great messages will help us spreading the word faster! Each of you can help, as your t-shirt purchase will be a donation for the sharks.

Your Pangaea Shark Project team!