Bad Press For Shark Fin Broker Alibaba.com

Porter Erison and Cristina Spindler are the marketing and PR-executives of Alibaba.com - this is what I wrote to them today: Dear Porter, dear Cristina: Toward the end of October 2006 I discovered by chance that your company is heavily engaged in the international shark fin trade. I then alerted friends and conservationist organizations such as the Shark Trust (UK), Wild Aid (US), the Shark Research Institute (US), Shark Life (South Africa), Sea Shepherd (US), Sharkproject (Germany / Austria). Richard Stewart of the Ocean Realm Society, Professor Brian W. Darvell of the Hong Kong University, Marie Levine of the Shark Research Institute, Jupp von Kerckerinck, and myself wrote many letters to you imploring you to stop promoting the international shark fin trade. I have sent you numerous articles on the devastating environmental effects of the brutal practice of shark finning - to no avail...