SAVE OUR SEAS
The Bank has joined up with Save our Seas to help promote awareness of 'finning'. In The Times dated 19.05.2010 is an advertisment highlighting this barbaric act.
73 million sharks are killed every year.
In the last 200 years the Hammerhead population has fallen by 99.99%. Other species by 90% since the 1950s.
Many have died to meet the increasing demand for shark fin soup by China's growing middle classes. Their fins are often cut off while they are still alive, and then they are thrown back into the sea to die in agony.
Save Our Seas Foundation is leading over 150 initiatives, such as establishing shark sanctuaries where finning and fishing is illegal, to protect these threatened creatures.
Projects like these will impact on global conservation policies as well as the entire marine ecosystem. We are now calling for donations to help us stop this barbaric practice.
Please send your donations today to PO Box 64417, London, W5 9FP or go online to www.saveourseas.com/donate remembering to quote reference ADB.
No matter how little you choose to give, we promise it will make a difference, and not just be a drop in the ocean.
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