Waitabu Marine Park Blog

Please support Fiji's Miss Hibiscus at the South Pacific pageant. She is championing the Fiji Shark Campaign as part of her bid to become Miss South Pacific. This is a great way for us to get the message out! Please spread this on all your Facebook, Bebo, Google + and Twitter networks! You can support her by voting for her at : misssouthpacificpageant.ws/about-us/contestants-2011.html . You can do it once a day so come back again and again to assist the effort of protecting sharks in Fiji. Miss Hawaii is FAR ahead at the moment, let's get Miss Fiji up there! FIJI SUN Save our sharks, Miss Fiji to tell pageant writer : SITERI SAUVAKACOLO Reigning Miss Vodafone Hibiscus Alisi Rabukawaqa will advocate for the stop to the exploitation of sharks across commercial fisheries at the Miss South Pacific Pageant in Samoa next week. Hibiscus Event Group Executive secretary Aqela Cakobau in a statement said Miss Rabukawaqa would use the pageant as a platform to advocate for shark pr...

The Sea Save Foundation Holiday Auction is now open! The proceeds will go to Sea Save Foundation in order to support ocean conservation. Auction items range from exotic diving vacation getaways, diving equipment and gear, underwater photography courses by noted oceanographers, and incredible hand crafted works of art guaranteed to delight and surprise. So, tell your friends, family, and community. Let the bidding begin! Sea Save Foundation - Auction Home Page - BiddingForGood Fundraising Auction

SHARKMAN Manoa Rasigatale moved an inch close to his dream - thanks to Chinese basketball superstar Yao Ming. The recently-retired NBA giant has joined the worldwide campaign against the shark fin trade, which has pushed the ancient species to the brink of extinction. Yao's decision is a big boost for campaigners such as the Sharkman, who is lobbying for legislation to ban the fishing of sharks in Fiji's waters. Like the move in California to remove shark fin soup off the menu, Yao wants his fellow countrymen to stop eating this top-of-the-range dish. After the fins are sliced off, sharks are discarded back into the ocean. Their speed diminished, maneuverability affected, they sink to the bottom where they are condemned to a slow, agonising death. "Oqo na mate vakaloloma (this is such a pitiful death)," says Rasigatale. "It is so sad that Fijian fishermen who are in this trade have forgotten our special relationship with the sharks. "It is our duty to protec...