Two important steps for sharks have been taken in the past week as a result of all your hard work, shouting for sharks and petition signing! Thank you for being a big part of our Big Shark Shout Out Week.

On November 22^nd, the European Commission announced the long awaited proposal for closing the loopholes in the European Union’s ban on shark finning and the European Union has become a signatory to the United Nations Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for Sharks.

For those of you that know me you'll know that Wales is very close to my heart.

I was born there, grew up there and my passion for leeks, dragons, daffodils and rugby has been instilled in me from a young age. Even though I now live in Australia (but funnily enough in New South Wales - there's always a connection somehow!) I am today super proud of my fellow welshmen. In just 14 days time they'll be making a huge step towards reducing the amount of plastic waste in our ocean.

sat with with the PADI training folks explaining My OCean

I love visiting Malaysia! Firstly everyone is so friendly. Secondly everyone is so generous.

During the recent Malaysia International Dive Expo, divers grabbed their pens and signed our Shark Petition - we collected over 700 signatures at the show. They also put their hands in their BCD's and together raised $1,000 for Project AWARE.

What was more encouraging was the passion of the Malaysian dive community to take action, support the new AWARE and be active.