Fin Free Thailand flies

BANGKOK Centara Hotels & Resorts, has joined the Fin Free Thailand campaign to stop the serving of shark fin dishes.
Centara hotels in Pattaya were the first to end the serving of shark fin, with other properties in the group following later this year.
There are currently 47 hotels in Centara’s Thailand portfolio, with another 21 either open or under construction in other destinations in Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Middle East and Africa.

Rattanachai Suttidechanai (back row 6th left), vice chairman of Pattaya City Council presided over the opening of the Fin Free Thailand campaign in top hotels in Pattaya and the nearby provinces. Properties participating are stopping the serving of shark fin menus, and raising awareness for the conservation of sharks and the marine environment amongst individuals and businesses in the area.
Pattaya City Council vice chairman, Rattanachai Suttidechanai, precided over the opening of the Fin Free Thailand campaign in top hotels in Pattaya and nearby destinations.
Centara was amongst the first businesses to participate in the campaign.
Fin Free Thailand is intended to protect endangered sharks and consumers’ health, with celebrities, activists, divers, hotel and restaurant owners, chefs and students working together to encourage more businesses in Thailand to go “Fin Free”.
Fin Free is a global campaign that supports individuals to organise on a local basis and lobby against the sale and possession of shark fin in cities, provinces, states and countries worldwide.
The Fin Free Thailand campaign in backed by prominent local and international conservation groups, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the US Embassy to Thailand.
According to Fin Free, up 73 million sharks are killed each year to meet the demand for shark fin soup. Some species of shark, notably Bull, Dusky and Smooth Hammerheads have experienced a 99% population decline since the 1950s.
Fins are sliced off while the sharks are still alive, with the shark then being discarded back into the sea to die.

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