Comments on: WHALE SHARK MATING AREA IS LEASED FOR DEVELOPING INTO INDUSTRIAL SITE

By: Hartzu

Hartzu — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:29:56 +0000

Thank you so much for doing protecting our reefs,fishes and everything .

By: latest news

latest news — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:09:09 +0000

Management of Hanifaru in Baa Atoll,an uninhabited island with a natural underwater bay -locally known as ‘Vandhumaafaru Adi’- famous for whale sharks has been handed over to Baa Atoll Council on 15 July 2011 by Environment Protection Agency of the Maldives.

The Area was listed as protected in 2009 by the Government of Maldives after growing pressure from environmental activists and now is part of the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in Baa Atoll which came into being on June 2011.

Bluepeace has campaigned hard for the protection of Hanifaru read our article @ http://www.bluepeacemaldives.org/blog/biodiversity/whale-shark-mating-area-leased-for-industrial-site at our blog which appeared on August 2008.

By: BLUEPEACE blog » Cabinet decides to lease Dhigulaabadhoo for aquaculture

BLUEPEACE blog » Cabinet decides to lease Dhigulaabadhoo for aquaculture — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:44:50 +0000

[...] significance to be leased for commercial activities. In 2008, Bluepeace and other concerned parties protested against the leasing of Hanifaru, the uninhabited island located in the now world famous Hanifaru Bay, for commercial activities. [...]

By: BLUEPEACE blog » CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF LOVE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

BLUEPEACE blog » CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF LOVE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:36:53 +0000

[...] We have called for the creation of more nature reserves in the country, and raised alarm when Hanifaru Bay, a whale shark mating area, was threatened with industrial activity. Bluepeace welcomes the [...]

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:55:18 +0000

Why not make an online petition and try to get as many signatures as possible? Those can then be presented to the Ministry of Environment (or something like that) and they HAVE to think about it once more. …or is this my European way of thinking that is too wishfull…?

By: me

me — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:22:59 +0000

Very cool stuff above on this site.

Did anyone catch this? It was pretty cool. About Steve Alten and his new book Hell’s Aquarium.

MEG-A-SHARK WEEK

The last first-edition collector’s hardbacks of MEG: Hell’s Aquarium are being shipped to Barnes & Noble, Borders, and Amazon.com in time for Discovery Channel’s SHARK WEEK, August 2nd – August 9th. MEG, short for Carcharodon Megalodon was the 70-foot, 70,000 pound prehistoric cousin of the Great White Shark. Reviewers have called best-selling author Steve Alten’s latest installment “the Moby Dick of giant killer shark novels.”

Must-reading for shark lovers!

By: KonstantinMiller

KonstantinMiller — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:24:09 +0000

How soon will you update your blog? I’m interested in reading some more information on this issue.

By: Katrien Vandevelde

Katrien Vandevelde — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:08:09 +0000

Hi,

I just read this blog and was wondering if Hanifaru is now protected again, or if the development went through. It’s so hard to believe that your government would allow this place to be destroyed while the presence of mantas and whalesharks are a mayor tourist attraction and thus a big source of income for the country?

By: faixxal

faixxal — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:39:32 +0000

i feel really disgusted … ive always been in love with the underwater life … n since i got the oppportunity to go for diving ive fell head over heels with the life beneath the landlubbers … its a really sad thing that these issues go unheard off .. hope there wud be someone with great power to stop these … i wud totally support n help in anyway i can …

-faixxal-

By: kaya

kaya — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:22:51 +0000

how can you trade such beautiful like the whale shark and the manta for industrial s***?!..

people love to dive and love nature as it is, sow keep that and don’t build a city!