Hong Kong\u2019s taste for luxury seafood is driving a trade in endangered marine species that is considered unsustainable, and is also often illegal. Traditional Chinese medicine, which often includes rare or exotic animals as ingredients, is another significant driver of this trade. But awareness is growing in the city, and over the past ten years, increasing efforts to tackle the trade by stifling demand have brought positive results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sustainability is now part of the conversation thanks to seafood guides that help shoppers make the right choices and apps that collect data on individual fish in an effort to prevent smuggling. The big players are making changes too, with restaurants and hotels considering the seafood issue in their corporate social responsibility policies. And in Chinese medicine, researchers are testing the efficacy of traditional ingredients such as the seahorse, and working to find substitutes. But are these efforts enough to stop the trade and save the ocean creatures it threatens?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Episode two of \u2018Three Billion\u2019 by Sustainable Asia looks at efforts to tackle the trade in endangered ocean species<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40065173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[763,50039901],"tags":[539,545],"country":[20000110],"class_list":["post-40076011","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-ocean","tag-endangered-species","tag-fisheries","country-china"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n