Thailand faces trade ban over ivory failings
AFP
Geneva – Thailand faces an international wildlife trade ban unless it reins in its ivory sector, which is a magnet for traffickers, global regulator CITES said on Friday.
“There have been years without any real action on the ground when it comes to controlling the illegal ivory market,” said Oeystein Stoerkersen, chairperson of CITES’s governing body …
News24 – 2014-07-13 19:02
www.news24.com/Green/News/Thai…
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Australia slams ‘extremist’ PETA for sheep abuse video
SYDNEY: Australia’s agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce has described animal rights group PETA as “extremist” and questioned their methods after the release of footage showing sheep being beaten by shearers.
Joyce said Australia “does not condone the mistreatment of animals” but added that the violence shown in the PETA video should have been reported immediately …
The New Age Online – Jul 13 2014 1:53 PM
www.thenewage.co.za/131457-102…
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The fight to save the elephants has new urgency
Writer Adam Wernick
A new report estimates that poachers killed 20,000 African elephants in 2013. The world is now losing more elephants than the population can reproduce …
Public Radio International – July 13, 2014 • 10:15 AM EDT
www.pri.org/stories/2014-07-13…
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Starting with whale meat, Japan launches halal tourism
via SyndiGate.info
Prayer rooms, hijabs made from local silk and even halal-certified whale meat ( www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014… ) are appearing in Japan as tourism bosses wake up to the demand from Muslim travellers.
For a largely homogeneous country with only around 100,000 practising Muslims, that means groping its way through unfamiliar customs as it looks to tap a growing market to help it double the number of overseas visitors by 2020 …
Al-Bawaba – July 13th, 2014 – 04:55 GMT
www.albawaba.com/business/whal…
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