Tag: Biodiversity
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Go Wild for National Park Week: April 19-27
Each spring, the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation host National Park Week, a presidentially proclaimed celebration of our national heritage. This year National Park Week—technically nine days—is scheduled for April 19-27. Kicking off the week, free admission will be offered to parks nation-wide opening weekend, this Saturday and Sunday (April 19-20). Below, the slideshow gives a small snapshot of the…
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Japan Declares They Will Defy International Court Ruling and Continue Whaling
There has been disappointing and worrying news today. The Government of Japan has announced that it intends to return to the Southern Ocean to hunt whales in 2015. It has also officially announced that it will again send its factory whaling ship to hunt whales in the North Pacific, although it plans to target fewer…
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EU Makes Bold Commitment to Sustainable Fishing
The European Union’s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) comes up for renewal every decade, but for the first time, Parliament clearly dedicated itself to ensuring sustainable practices. Passing by a whopping 473-to-52 vote count, Parliament approved reform of the CFP, including objectives to rebuild fish stocks, reduce fishing’s impact on the ecosystem and deny financial help to…
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Sen. Reid Deems Bundy Defenders ‘Domestic Terrorists’
U.S. Sen. majority leader Harry Reid never minces words, and there was no reason for him to begin doing so when discussing the standoff between supporters of a private rancher and federal officials last week in Nevada. “Those people who hold themselves out to be patriots are not. They’re nothing more than domestic terrorists,” Reid told…
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Labradors Trained to Detect Illegally Trafficked Wildlife Products
On March 27 the arrivals hall of Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport was bustling with passengers as usual. Jin Kai, a detector dog with the Guangzhou Customs Anti-smuggling Police, and one of the first graduates from a detector dog training program run by the China Customs Anti-smuggling Bureau in co-operation with TRAFFIC and supported by World…