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 Stories About: international government agencies AND wildlife
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The Fur Is Flying -- Off the Shelves Fur Fashions Drive Slaughter of Endangered Species |
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01 Dec 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| The Fur Is Flying -- Off the Shelves Fur Fashions Drive Slaughter of Endangered Species Fur is making a comeback on fashion runways -- and that means trouble for a number of endangered animals, according to an official with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. In the 1980s and '90s, fur was largely out of vogue and thus the animal skin trade dwindled, but recently there's been an upswing i ... |
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| Topics: international government agencies, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Elephants: Never Forget
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26 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Elephants: Never Forget A shocking 80 percent of wild elephants in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam fell victim to the ivory trade between 1988 and 2000, according to a report issued yesterday by Save the Elephants. The report blamed French, Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese, and Chinese tourists for driving ... |
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| Topics: ... Germany, Indonesia, international government agencies, Italy, Japan, Laos, Nepal, Spain, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Sting Like a Butterfly
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28 Nov 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Sting Like a Butterfly Every year, millions of migrating Monarch butterflies make their way from Canada to central Mexico, where they reproduce and overwinter in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. Trouble is, 60 percent of that reserve has disappeared in the last few decades due to logging. Now Mexican officials say they are getting serious about protecting the reserve, assigning ... |
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| Topics: Canada, international government agencies, logging, Mexico, wildlife (all these topics) |
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