{"id":18826,"date":"2014-07-10T23:46:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T15:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=18826"},"modified":"2014-07-10T23:46:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T15:46:45","slug":"philippines-largest-airline-joins-shark-fin-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/10\/philippines-largest-airline-joins-shark-fin-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines&#8217; largest airline joins shark fin ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18828\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18828\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/200px-Shark_finning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18828\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/200px-Shark_finning.jpg\" alt=\"Dead, finned sharks are a grizzly reminder of the high cost of shark fin soup. ost(wikipedia photo)\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dead, finned sharks are a grizzly reminder of the high cost of shark fin soup. ost(wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cebu Pacific, the Philippines&#8217; largest national carrier, said Wednesday that it has joined the ban on transporting shark fins, in line with global conservation efforts to put an end to shark fishing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are banning shark fin carriage effective immediately as we learned that unsustainable shark fishing and our carriage of shark fin is not aligned with (our) position on sustainable development,&#8221; the airline said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The carrier likewise added that it will cease serving shark fin soup at its corporate functions.<\/p>\n<p>Cebu Pacific, owned by the Gokongwei family, is the country&#8217;s largest airline in relation to number of passengers transported.<\/p>\n<p>It has become the second Filipino carrier to impose the ban on shark fin shipments; on the heels of rival Philippine Airlines, which decreed the ban on board their craft in April of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last few years, several airlines across the globe announced that they would cease carrying shark fins. This is in support of a campaign to stop the consumption of the food product; the demand for which has led to over fishing of sharks, leaving many species now endangered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Cebu Pacific, the Philippines&#8217; largest national carrier, said Wednesday that it has joined the ban on transporting shark fins, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":18828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,19],"tags":[3489,6629],"class_list":["post-18826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-business","tag-cebu-pacific","tag-shark-fin-ban","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}