This past weekend was the 19th annual Planet in Focus Film Festival in Toronto. Planet in Focus is an environmental media arts organization with year-round programming. Their mandate is to produce cultural events that showcase engaging and artistic films that question, explore,
Humans are killing sharks at an unprecedented rate. An estimated 100 million sharks are killed per year; intentionally for their meat or fins, as bycatch of commercial fishing, or by marine pollution among many other causes. This is causing shark populations to
July 21st, 2018 marks PADI’s Women’s Dive Day, a day to celebrate the badass women all over the world who love scuba diving and exploring the ocean. While I, unfortunately, won’t be able to celebrate this year’s Women’s Dive Day by
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS79X3UnPLQ Those of you that have been following Airplanes & Avocados will know that Hawaii is the place where I first fell in love with sharks. My very first trip to the islands over five years ago led me to a
Today’s post comes as a response to Barnstable County Commissioner, Ron Beaty’s recently announced “shark hazard mitigation strategy”. On Monday, August 21st a video surfaced of a shark eating a seal 75 feet of the shoreline of a crowded Nauset Beach
“We are not afraid of predators, we’re transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness, and preparedness, survival. In a deeply tribal way, we love our monsters…” E.O. Wilson, sociobiologist I’ve
When I tell people that I freedive with sharks I’m usually met with a look of disbelief followed with a “why on earth would you want to do that?” I never really know how to answer this question in words, so
A few months ago I wrote an article about why I chose not to ride an elephant while I was in Bali and talked about the harmful and unethical practices of animal encounter tours. You can check out that article