18,000. That’s the number of the restaurants around the world that have already taken shark fin soup off their menus. The restaurants, which include such high-end global chains as Shangri La, Marriott International and InterContinental, have done so in response to a global campaign that originated in Hong Kong. The campaign is driven…

The question is: “Do Malaysians really care about Sharks?” The answer, according to WWF-Malaysia, is disheartening: not that much. “Apart from encounters shielded by glass thicker than the Great Wall of China,” the conservationist group posits, “Malaysians’ emotional involvement with sharks has been mostly recreational or gastronomical,” it explains. In…

Come mid-2016, sharks living in some of Malaysia’s waters may be breathing a little more easily. The state of Sabah will declare three of its marine parks to be shark sanctuaries: Tun Sakaran in Semporna district; Tunku Abdul Rahman in Kota Kinbalu; and newly established Tun Mustapha in Kudat. The marine…