Business Week Shines Spotlight on Alibaba.com

The issue of shark finning continues to gain visibility, this time in the high-profile publication Business Week (view article). Alibaba.com (40-percent-owned by Yahoo) again defends its business practices of selling shark fin over the Internet, hiding behind the notion of "cultural traditions." They claim to allow only the sale of legal shark fin, but this is impossible by definition over the Internet, because it is impossible to inspect the shark fin to see what type of shark it came from.

The State of Sharks

Here's an article in SF Gate, the San Francisco Chronicle's online edition, that does a great job of summing up the current state of shark populations and the many threats they face.

Kids and Sharks

KOL, AOL's service for kids, published a shark picture gallery with some photo captions that help spread the word about shark conservation to kids. Check it out here.