Nature, 3rd prize
Shark Fin
Paul Hilton
for Pew/Greenpeace International/Shark Savers
for Pew/Greenpeace International/Shark Savers
09 June, 2011
Staff at a drying facility outside Kaohsiung sort thousands of shark fins under the midday sun.
Paul Hilton
Paul Hilton is a Hong Kong-based photojournalist, who focuses on global environmental and conservation issues. Presently, Hilton is working on a manta and mobula ray project, Man...
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Staff at a drying facility outside Kaohsiung sort thousands of shark fins under the midday sun. Hunting sharks for their fins has become big business across the globe, as shark-fin soup—once an expensive delicacy unaffordable to most—soars in popularity among China’s growing, newly affluent middle class. Up to 73 million sharks are killed annually, and some recent estimates hold that up to 90 per cent of the shark population in open oceans has already disappeared.
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