Hello All
Its one of the co-founders of the Bali Shark Project. Thank you all for your interest and support.
First of all: @the world... when you see that message in Spanish means your data has been processed. Thanks for signing.
@Zivva sorry yahoo is acting up and i can´t open it today to reply to you; there will be a link to a page to download the flyers, we are working on it, but it will be there soon. Please check the shark count programm, and participate, since you are in Lembongan your info about your shark (alive) sightings is very helpful!
I would love to have someone station in Penida and another one in Kusamba, however money or transport donations are needed, nobody so far has supported us with funds, we are paying our own money and going in our spare time researching, which means we also have to work, so no time at all to do it all. The very best will be to hire an indonesian do the job, its the more respectful and the proper way, but then you pay relocation etc.. and we can simply not afford it. So we rely on volunteers like zivva and ourselves.
Last year as we discover all this we contacted all the mayor dive centers in Bali and Lembongan and many medium size. I personally spend up to 12 hours a day sending Emails. Many show some interest which resolted in a hufe amount of emails bacjkward and fowards but not much more, other offer help by renting us the tank at a very high price or sending their staff for free on a boat that we shoudl pay for to look for the thresher cleaining stations (they were not really interested in the fishing), some offer us advise (like we should do something about it...), but most of them simply ignore us. It was very hurtful to see how they simply don´t care!
But three dive operators really came through offering boats, tanks, transport and their time: Bali Dive Tours, Scuba Seraya Resort (close to Tulamben) and Aquamarine.
This year we are in contact with some new dive centers and some with new managers. I will include everybody`s colaboration in the new report!
Those of you diving in Bali now or in the future could ask your dive operators about what they know, or have done, and asked them to support us, distribute the petition and participate with the shark counting research.
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DEAR WISNA
I don´t understand your point.
So every western that reports damaging activities being carry out in Indonesia is not seeing beyond the color of the skin? Maybe it is you not seeing beyond it?.
I see people doing illegal fishing and i could care less is they are vikings or indonesians. I have participated in campains to stop shark fishing in Spain, seal cubbing in Canada, and whaling in Japan among others. But i happen to live here now, so here is were i do what i can to stop sea poaching.
I do not live in a villa in the south of Bali, i live among the very same people you say i don´t know. Many of our effords is to procure alternative income to the people involve in the shark fishing industry, not only the fishermen, but the women who clean and transport the sharks.
I understand you have your opinions but i have written the report and the website and i am getting tired of you hinting i am a racist and a liar and have no understanding of the average indonesian life.