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Cardboard shark fin

Cardboard shark fin
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Title
Cardboard shark fin
Content partner
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Collection
Te Papa Collections Online
Description

This decorated cardboard shark fin was sent to the New Zealand Shark Alliance for its campaign to ban shark finning in New Zealand waters. It was one of 1894 fins made by school students and community groups around Aotearoa New Zealand between March and November 2013. The campaign aimed to raise public awareness and outrage over shark finning, a practice which sees millions of sharks being killed for only their fins and their bodies dumped at sea. At the time of the campaign this practice wa...

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Image
Date created
2013
URL
https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1493367
Related subjects
Protest movements / cardboard / paint / paper / ink / placards / Sharks / New Zealand

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