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 Stories About: China AND food and agriculture AND wildlife
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Indelicacies
Chinese appetite for exotic foods driving trade in endangered species |
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07 Oct 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Indelicacies Chinese appetite for exotic foods driving trade in endangered species Many Chinese believe that wild game improves health. Whether or not that's true, the country's enormous market for rare and exotic "delicacies" is not improving the health of endangered species. "Just in the last two years, 12 to 13 species have had to be CITES-listed because of China's food trade," said Gail Cochr ... |
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| Topics: China, food and agriculture, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Grain and Bear It
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19 Nov 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Grain and Bear It New policies emerging in China could bode well for that poster child of protection efforts, the panda. In an article published last week in the journal Science, scientists from the World Wildlife Fund and Beijing University praised China's National Forest Conservation Program and its "Grain-to-Green" policy as likely to preserve habitat crucial to pa ... |
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| Topics: China, food and agriculture, national forests, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics) |
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