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The Ethical Traveler campaigns are meant to be informative, but also provide an opportunity for you to take action. So, please read the background on these issues, and make good use of the campaign letters provided. Or use them as a starting point and customize one of your own. Also, if you register with Ethical Traveler you'll have a chance to tell us which additional issues concern you most.

COSTA RICA
Campaign Against Shark-Finning in Costa Rica

In recent years, Asia’s appetite for shark fin soup has meant big business for Costa Rica. The exorbitant profits from the sale of shark fins have driven Costa Ricans to tolerate a macabre practice in their waters: “finning” is the inhumane act of slicing off a shark’s valuable fin and throwing the live, mutilated body back into the sea. Though Costa Rican law prohibits finning, spotty enforcement allows the slaughter to continue. Shark finning is largely responsible for the 90-percent decline in shark populations worldwide. Please join ET’s campaign, and help Goldman Environmental Award winner Randall Arauz in his tireless effort to get his country to stop the brutality.