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Bluefin tuna ban receives conditional support from France
France announced its support for adding bluefin tuna to Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), a move that would effectively ban all trade in the large, migratory fish. But environmentalists say France’s insistence on an 18-month waiting period is a dangerous condition given the current decline in fish stocks.
- Date:
- Feb 2010
- Source:
- Bridges Trade BioRes Vol: 10 Issue: 2
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Rhino poaching continues to plague Kaziranga
MANOJ ANAND
With wildlife experts proposing more stricter laws to protect animals falling under Schedule-I, another incident of rhino poaching was reported from Kaziranga National Park on Monday.
- Date:
- 22/12/2009
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- Asian Age (New Delhi)
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Rhino poaching continues to plague Kaziranga
MANOJ ANAND
With wildlife experts proposing more stricter laws to protect animals falling under Schedule-I, another incident of rhino poaching was reported from Kaziranga National Park on Monday.
- Date:
- 22/12/2009
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- Asian Age (New Delhi)
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Saving wild tigers : Recommendations from the Kathmandu global tiger workshop 2009
Tigers are symbols of all that is powerful, mystical, and beautiful in nature. As an apex species, they reflect the health of the ecosystems in which they live and on which people depend. Unfortunately, adverse human activities have driven wild tigers to the brink of extinction. Over the past century, their numbers fell from 100,000 to about 3,500 today.
- Date:
- Oct 2009
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- Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation
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Nepal for global action on tiger conservation
Aarti Dhar
KATHMANDU: Nepal is seriously engaged in taking the on-going peace process to a positive conclusion, writing a new democratic Constitution within the stipulated time-frame, and meeting the rising aspirations of the Nepalese people.
- Date:
- 28/10/2009
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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African elephants: surviving by the skin of their teeth
The African elephant’s misfortune has been its teeth, in particular the well developed pair of upper incisors known
- Date:
- Oct 2009
- Source:
- Current Science Vol: 97 Issue: 7 pp: 996-997
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CITES and livelihood: Converting words into action
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is the key international agreement regulating trade in wildlife. It works through a system of trade controls based on biological and international trade data of species.
- Date:
- Sep 2009
- Source:
- Journal of Environment & Development Vol: 18 Issue: 3 pp: 291-305
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Status, conservation and trade in African and Asian rhinoceroses
Poachers in Africa and Asia are killing an ever increasing number of rhinos—an estimated two to three a week in some areas—to meet a growing demand for horns believed in some countries to have medicinal value, according to a briefing to a key international wildlife trade body by WWF, IUCN and their affiliated wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC.
- Date:
- Jul 2009
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- IUCN
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Forensic tools battle ivory poachers
The illegal slaughter of African elephants for ivory is now worse than it was at its peak in the 1980s. New forensic tools based on DNA analysis can help stop the cartels behind this bloody trade.
- Date:
- Jul 2009
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- Scientific American Vol: 300 Issue: 7
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The status of the ivory trade in Thailand and Vietnam
Both Thailand and Vietnam have been identified during the past decade as centres of concern in ivory trade surveys and analyses undertaken for CITES by ETIS (Elephant Trade Information System). Thailand was one of the most important sites of illegal ivory trade at the global level and Vietnam was shown to have a moderate sized and largely unregulated ivory market.
- Date:
- Jun 2009
- Source:
- Traffic Bullein Vol: 22 Issue: 2 pp: 83-91
