Critter News

MARCH 28, 2010

I like this opinion piece from the Christian Science Monitor which calls for an "Endangered Species Hour." The Christian Science Monitor rightly points out that citizens and consumers need to get involved in endangered species protection, because at the CITES level, it's all about money and international politics.

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Critter News

MARCH 23, 2010

Delegates to the CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) conference in Qatar voted down three of four proposals to protect sharks. Tags: CITES united nations marine animals Japan china endangered species. This really sucks. According to the New York Times.

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Critter News

MARCH 29, 2010

Knowing them, I bet they were hoping for fish and chips instead!). Tags: CITES united nations marine animals Japan endangered species. Hopefully, regular citizens will read this and not just other activists. (I I forwarded an article about this to my book club members.

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Endangered Species Japan Campaign Fish 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Will the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) conference delegates up-list them to Appendix I of the Convention, forbidding any future sale over international borders? The way I see it, it is a cruel joke leading towards the extinction of a threatened species. One may say so.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

because, if the film rights to this book have not been snapped up yet, Hollywood is making a huge mistake) (c) Will I ever see a Blakiston’s Fish Owl? The fish owl is Jonathan Slaght’s grail and also, more prosaically, his dissertation topic. So, Blakiston’s Fish Owl it was. Slaght in the film version?

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Owls Russia Fish Research 131

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

That is a big difference compared to the 2,000+ singing males detected in 2012, well above the recovery goal for this species set by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Short-tailed Albatross was thought to be, at one time, the most abundant species of albatross in the North Pacific. Come back, click through, read, learn.

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