What to do about China? (1 Viewer)

No respect for anything if it can be eaten, mined or turned in to a man made, Island fortress.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-40944886



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Yeah :/

There's some evidence that shark fin demand reduction campaigns in China are working though. The one with Yao Ming comes to mind. I'm just scare of it all being too little, too late, too slow.

The (relatively, but not really) good news is: if the Chinese government puts its mind to something, it happens. I don't know how good or bad that is for the political situation, and it's been pretty bad for wildlife in the past (think Chinese lobbying for whaling and tiger farming), but it's had some positive effects in recent years... they've begun a big shutdown of all domestic ivory trade, and are looking better than the US on climate change.

They'd better get cracking on shark fin soon, though. This haul was just... hard to look at. Also sucks that small countries who are genuinely trying hard to protect their shark populations can't compete against the nautical muscle of the big consumer countries.