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SOSF Newsletter First Quarter 2009
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It's been a very busy few months for everybody here at the Save Our Seas Foundation, with a surf film festival, a Panda Award, and singing pirates all becoming involved in the Foundation's work to protect our oceans.
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"SEAS THE DAY" FILM COMPETITION
SOSF has launched an exciting short film competition to coincide with the Jackson Hole Film Festival. "Seas The Day" is open to all film makers who can get the marine conservation message "out there", in a short, smart, and innovative way. For full competition details click here.
SOSF SUPPORTS "NOT ON OUR MENU" SOSF lent its full support to The Underwater Channel's new anti-shark finning campaign "Not On Our Menu". Read our short guide to the facts behind shark finning and watch UWC's incredible new video viral right here. SAVE OUR SEAS NOW ON TWITTER SOSF is on Twitter, the microblogging service which allows you to stay up to date with everything we do. To see our updates and how SOSF is using online tools to help spread awareness of marine conservation issues, click here. WAVESCAPES SURF FILM SUCCESS With the support of SOSF, The Wavescapes Surf Film Festival took place in Cape Town, South Africa during December, 2008. As well as bringing surfers and shark conservation together, the festival also screened the world's best surf films and showed them in one of the planet's most stunning outdoor settings. Find out all you need to know right here.
SOSF SUPPORTS BASKING SHARK WORKSHOP The foundation announced that in August 2009 it was to support a workshop on the Isle of Man addressing the global ecology and conservation status of the basking shark. Find out more and register for the workshop here. NEW BLOG FOR MALIDIVIAN MANTAS SOSF sponsored researcher Guy Stevens gives us an inside look into his unique work with giant manta rays in the Indian Ocean. Read about his research here. WILD SCREEN PANDA AWARD WIN SOSF received the "Oscar of the natural film making world", at the Wildscreen Film Festival 2008, in Bristol, UK, for its Rethink the Shark series of campaign films. Read about the team's victory here. PIRATES BRING OCEAN CONSERVATION TO LIFE! The creators of the Riddle in a Bottle film, took their unique all singing all dancing show on the road to schools across Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. Their inspiring story of adventure starts here. |