Project Hiu

HELP US CHANGE THE FUTURE FOR SHARKS & THE MEN THAT FISH THEM.



What do we do with donations? 

A huge amount of background work within the community and each individual fishing vessel takes place to make this project possible. Your donations are dedicated to our final goal of repurposing an entire fleet of fishing vessels in tourism, supporting fishermen & their families on a path to a better future that in turn, saves marine life. Below are some of many examples of how we do this, with both humans and sharks in mind. 

 

1 - Employment; Training & licensing of fishing vessels so that they may move from fishing into tourism.


2 - Improving health care and living conditions through investing in clean water systems, education & waste management. 


3 - Funding sustainable projects that provide new income opportunities to existing fishermen and their families, this in-tern prevents the fishing and exploitation of sharks, i.e. tourism. This includes the enforcement of eco tourism training and regulations. 

 

4 - Education, sponsoring shark fishermen’s children or crew themselves to attend university and have a wider range of options for their future that they otherwise may not be exposed to.

 

5 - Explore the shark fin trade from captain to consumer, highlighting the divide between the people buying shark fins and the men exploited to obtain them. This includes a more in-depth look into the processing & exporting of shark fins.

 

6 - Research, by ensuring our methods are not just functioning but functioning effectively, we continue to research the movements of sharks in Indonesia and new threats to their populations. 


“There's more to doing good than hating evil.”
 
- Unknown 


The presence of tiger sharks in catches lead Project Hiu to become the first team to tag tiger sharks in Indonesia in 2022 with the help of your donations.  

EDUCATION; It is the underlining foundation for implementing long-term change. Project Hiu aims to educate future generations on; sustainable business practice, entrepreneurship and language. For this to be possible we make frequent calculated contributions to the school of materials & teachers.





Our donations are dedicated to the fight for our wildlife in the world’s largest shark fishing nation and setting the foundation required for fishermen to have a new and sustainable future in tourism. Explore a fishing trip with us through this film of our time at sea with shark fishermen in a never before documented journey



THANK YOU! Your donations make this possible! 

This donation page is directly linked to The Hooper Collective, a registered non-for-profit organisation. Your contribution will help aid the development of this project and the shark fishing community in which we work with. 


Our donors

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Lue Epstein

donated

$10/M

Supporting Galapagos Islands as well, from Illegal shark's fishing

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Sharktopia

donated

$50

A couple more prints sold! (- Sharktopia) I'm still donating 100% from those sales. <3

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Stephen

Had an incredible time learning about sharks from the team at Bimini Biological Field Station in the Bahamas! Now I'm obsessed!

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Sharktopia

donated

$60

Several more prints sold! Thank you for all you're doing! <3 Sharktopia

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Sharktopia

donated

$75

$$$ is from the sale of my recent prints (paintings) featuring Madison & the Tiger shark. Looking forward to donating more as more prints sell! <3 - Sharktopia

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OFAUNA

donated

$307

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Veronica

Go Project Hiu!

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Brooke

donated

$50

For Madi's Birthday!

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Pontus Alenlöv

donated

$10/M

I love the ocean and I love sharks. Caring for others was one of my grandpa's qualities I want to mimic. This is for us grandpa. Great job project hiu, fantastic initiative. Imagine a world where everyone cared like you. Monthly donor from now

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Shannon

donated

$100

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Veronica Uribe

donated

$20/M

I support Project Hiu because not only are they helping to save sharks, they are a community based conservation project that is uplifting the local community as well. Thank you for all that you do!

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Not for Profit Surfboards

donated

A$50

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Margo Schnapf

donated

$10

Your work is so important. Thank you.

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Phoebe Lindsay

donated

$100

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Billy Brennan

donated

$50

Thank you for the inspiration!

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Aryanna Lirag

donated

$10

Thank you to the whole team for not only their conservation work but for local and cultural work as well!!

KF

Amphibian Adventures

donated

$25/M

I am a big supporter of what Madison is doing for the locals as well as for the sharks - THANK YOU!

MC

Max Carter

donated

A$907.48

Drove a shitty tuk tuk across the Indian Himalayas to raise money for you guys. It was a wild trip haha

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Veronica Leuci

donated

$10

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Kimberly

Big supporter of what Madison and her colleagues have been doing for the past year with advocating and giving visual awareness of what has been going on in international shark fin trading. Thank you for all that you do!

SJ

VIVO2 development

donated

$25/M

Keep up your fantastic work! I visited the fishmarket and I made me sick and sad. There has to be ways to support these local people and turn the future. If only more people could see what’s happening… people would pay so much more for a shark alive than it’s sold on the market.

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Madison Arndt

donated

$5/M

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Klara

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Deri Lingstar

donated

C$33/M

Thank you, team Hiu, you are truly inspiring and remind us to keep fighting for humans, for sharks, for ocean, for the future we want to live in.

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Save the Mermaids Podcast

donated

$25/M

Donating monthly from Save the mermaids podcast 💕 we don’t make much from our project but wanted to share the love with our favorite impactful shark loving non profit!

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Veronica Uribe

donated

$100

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Duncan Warrick

donated

$25

Your work is so important, know that lots of us support you and are glad someone is out there fighting for these wonderful, wonderful animals.

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Rob

donated

$10/M

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Alex Lardner

donated

£10

This is amazing work! I love following you to see the education and development of local people where it stars and where they need it! Keep being amazing!

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Cassy

donated

£5/M