Public urged to stop buying turtle eggs
by Winnie Kasmir
SANDAKAN: Everyone in the district is needed to play a role to eradicate the sale of turtle eggs, thus supporting efforts to protect the turtles.
Sandakan Municipal Council (SMC) president Datuk James Wong said the endangered species of turtles had become one of Sandakan’s tourist attractions, and various efforts to protect the species would be in vain if the community did not give their support to the authority …
The Borneo Post – March 12, 2015
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Eco-terror has no place here
By Andrew Bonallack
IT’S a case of the dreaded white powder in the mail.
The powder in the envelope scenario became vogue in 2008-2009, with scares at the Wellington and Canberra parliaments.
But this one takes a big step further into terrorism: a specific threat. It’s like something out of an action movie: the evil terrorist in the blue-tinted glasses phoning in a bomb threat …
Wairarapa Times-Age – Mar 12, 2015 at 06:38 AM
www.nzherald.co.nz/wairarapa-t…
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Japan dumps ‘unsafe’ Norway whale meat
AFP
Whale meat imported into Japan from Norway has been dumped after tests found it contained up to twice the permitted level of harmful pesticide, the government said Wednesday …
The Local.no – Mar 11, 2015
www.thelocal.no/20150311/japan…
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