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GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Elephants, rhinos and tigers are getting a lot of attention this week as Cites meets in Thailand over the next steps to take to help endangered species, but an endangered and beloved little Australian bandicoot has just suffered a dramatic loss in Australia’s Queensland. The big-eared, long-snouted marsupial has been protected from [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Cites meeting to review the state of the world’s endangered species opened this weekend in Bangkok, Thailand, with a promise from the country’s foreign minister that trading in ivory in the country would be brought to a halt. Thailand’s laws allow some trade but it is also a centre for illegal [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Poaching of elephant ivory in Africa is at its highest level in 20 years, according to Cites (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna) officials. John Scanlon, the convention’s head, told reporters in Geneva 5 October that it will be “probably the most contentious issue” at the [...]
Cites meeting in July to push for Africa solution: better coordination and DNA tracing GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The latest report on elephant poaching and ivory smuggling from Cites (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora), published 21 June, shows the highest level in a decade, with 2009-2011 as the three [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Governments taking part in the Cites (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) meeting in Geneva agreed to contribute to a $100 million fund to save the African elephant, in the face of increased poaching. Some 300 delegates from around the world took part in the meeting [...]
[WWF video] Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Atlantic bluefin tuna’s last reasonable chance for survival as a species has taken a beating: its defenders have been defeated in a critical vote at a Cites meeting in Doha, Qatar. A clear majority of nations of the Cites pact of countries, which regulates trade in endangered species, [...]
Bern / Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland has agreed to back demands for a ban on bluefin tuna, a favourite of sushi diners, when Geneva-based Cites meets in Doha, Qatar, 13-25 March. Cites is the inter-government Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and 175 governments will be sending representatives [...]
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A complete ban on the trade and commercialization of the North Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna is to be discussed by the 175 member countries of Cites that meet in Doha in March, according to a statement by the group Friday 5 February. Cites is the Convention on International Trade in [...]
Gland, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A ban on fishing the bluefin tuna in the Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea, stocks of which are at their lowest historical levels, was not approved by the body in charge of managing the fish, announced WWF International, from Recife, Brazil Sunday 15 November. The International Commission for the Conservation [...]
By Peter Gaechter The Pew Environment Group in Washington DC added its voice Thursday, 5 November to calls for a ban on fishing of bluefin tuna, stocks of which have been depleted by 85 percent since industrial fishing began in the 1960s, and which are now near collapse. Pew follows the lead of two environmental [...]
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