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The raid took place on the day an amendment to the law controlling illegal trade in endangeredspecies came into effect. Tags: wildlife crime UK wildlife trafficking Traditional Chinese Medicine tigers endangeredspecies.
Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife crime India endangeredspecies. It was sent from North America to India and confiscated by the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau. It was labeled as a "rug" and the only reason they searched was because of a tip.
According to a paper published in the September 1 online edition of the journal Conservation Genetics, DNA bar codes can be used to quickly and clearly distinguish the source species of meat or leather goods for many rare and threatened species. Tags: wildlife crime wildlife trafficking endangeredspecies.
Illegal wildlife traffickers provide fake credentials to establish that primates are being legitimately offered for sale. Their ads claim that the primate comes with "veterinary health documents, a "permit" from CITES (the Convention on International Trade in EndangeredSpecies of Wild Fauna and Flora) and a year's health care guarantee.
Not guilty of gorilla killings - guilty of illegal charcoaling The Wildlife Officers were charged by the Congolese Wildlife Authority with the "destruction of flora and fauna" under Wildlife Law OL 069-41 of August 1969. The charges included the massacre of the gorillas and involvement in the illegal charcoal trade.
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The UN Convention on International Trade in EndangeredSpecies (CITES) meeting in Geneva voted in favour of China becoming a licensed importer. Tags: ivory africa CITES poaching china elephants. I don't know how to call this one.will it help or hurt the elephant population in the long run?
employee, claims the defendants inhumanely and illegally mistreat their Asian elephants and have done so for decades. According to the complaint, the defendants routinely beat elephants, violating the 1973 EndangeredSpecies Act by hitting them with bull hooks. Tags: animal cruelty circus elephants.
Animals killed also include threatened and endangeredspecies, a number which has steadily increased since 2005. In 2008, the Environmental Protection Agency charged Wildlife Services for its illegal placement of a sodium cyanide M-44 (a highly lethal booby trap) on public land, which harmed a U.S.
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