Shark fins will no longer fly with the Cathay Pacific. The airline, despite being headquartered in Hong Kong, where the demand for traditional shark fin soup continues to rise, bans their transportation aboard its freighters.
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Shark fins will no longer fly with the Cathay Pacific. The airline, despite being based in Hong Kong, where the demand for the traditional shark fin soup keeps increasing, bans their transport aboard its freighters.
“Cathay Pacific has decided to stop the unsustainable shark transport and related products - reads the note released by the company, as reported by The Standard - They are now very convincing scientific evidence who claim this is the right thing for one to do company committed to sustainability. In particular, due to the vulnerable nature of sharks, with their rapidly declining population due to the impact of their over-exploitation, transporting parts of them is in contrast to our commitment to sustainable development ".
Cathay Pacific is not the first company to have undertaken a measure of this type, as AFP explains: even the luxury hotel chains Shangri-La and La Peninsula have banned serving the famous shark soup, while the NTUC FairPrice, a well-known local supermarket chain, has said it will stop selling shark-based products. Yet, every year, it is estimated that 30 to 73 sharks are killed for their fins alone, a hunt that has significantly contributed to the reduction of about 1/3 of all shark species close to extinction.
China remains the largest consumer of shark fins, with approx 10.000 tons shipped to Hong Kong every year. So, as the Cathay Pacific ban gradually comes into effect over the next three months, it will be difficult to stop a trade that is tempting both literally for consumers and figuratively for manufacturers, already on a war footing to defend their own. shady deals.
Roberta Ragni
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