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latest news Archives for June 2007
30/6/07
Two studies suggest that condors are being poisoned by lead that they
ingest from carcasses and gut piles left by hunters. Now, wildlife
officials in Arizona are trying to persuade hunters to switch to lead-free
ammunition in an attempt to save the endangered bird.
29/6/07
Two men who pleaded guilty to felony alligator poaching are set for
sentencing at 10 a.m. Tuesday before Monroe County Circuit Court Judge
Wayne Miller in Key West.
28/6/07
A fur trader in Kashmir has surrendered 55 animal hides to wildlife
wardens. The haul, the largest till date, included skins of several
endangered species like the snow leopard, marble cat, wolf, pine martin,
brown bear, and tigers.
27/6/07
Poaching feeds and bleeds Russian Kamchatka.
27/6/07
LEAGUE VOWS TO 'STEP UP' ILLEGAL HUNT PROSECUTIONS
27/6/07
An Oscar-nominated filmmaker will exhort Indians to conserve wildlife with
a new film, but the message is contained in a racy thriller set in a
famous tiger sanctuary instead of in a preachy documentary
27/6/07
The bald eagle, America's national symbol since 1782, is expected to be
removed from the list of the most endangered animals.
26/6/07
Trapping Tiri's hawks a first priority but gun threat stays. The
Department of Conservation has given two hawks a stay of execution, after
an outcry over plans to shoot them so it can introduce three endangered
kokako to the Hauraki Gulf island where the birds live.
26/6/07
There has been widespread outrage among wildlife conservationists at the
death of around eighteen Asiatic lions since January 2007 in Gir
Sanctuary. More than a dozen perished since March alone.
26/6/07
Residents trying to drive roving bears out of town could worsen situation.
26/6/07
Two of four tiger cubs, saved in the period from the beginning of the year
by IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare IFAW and Federal
Governmental Administraion Special Inspection “Tiger” on Primorye
Territory, have arrived in Moscow on Wednesday.
26/6/07
Booming tourism in the Galapagos Islands and poaching in Senegal's
Niokolo-Koba National Park have caused the United Nations World Heritage
committee to add the sites to its list of those in danger, the committee
said Tuesday.
25/6/07
Dozens of crocodiles bred in captivity in eastern India have been enlisted
to protect their endangered counterparts in the wild and are being
released in forests to scare away poachers, authorities said on Monday.
24/6/07
Chitwan National Park has expressed concern over the increased involvement
of local villagers in poaching rhinoceros and smuggling their hides and
parts for immediate gains.
23/6/07
There's an excellent column in the June issue of the BBC Wildlife magazine
by noted conservationist Richard Mabey who states that "wildlife
persecution in the UK ought to be a thing of the past.
23/6/07
The number of animals or birds killed by the misuse of pesticides has
reached a 12-year high, according to a repo. A total of 177 suspected
incidents were investigated last year involving golden eagles, red kites,
buzzards, peregrine falcons, swans, rabbits, grey and red squirrels,
foxes, cats, dogs, cattle, sheep and horses
23/6/07
A total of 485 birds covered in oil as a result of
the grounding of the MSC Napoli in Devon have been cleaned, rehabilitated
and released back into the wild by the RSPCA.
22/6/07
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has announced that the bald
eagle will continue to be strongly protected by federal law under a series
of actions designed to govern management of eagles should they be removed
from Endangered Species Act protection
22/6/07
Pressure is building to legalise the sale of tiger parts for use in
traditional medicine, writes Mary-Anne Toy in Guilin, China
21/6/07
Man held in ivory trade raid. A man was arrested at an address in Barton
this morning in connection with the illegal trade and smuggling of ivory
to the USA.
21/6/07
Uganda Wildlife Authority has partnered with the Uganda Peoples Defence
Forces to fight poaching and encroachment . The Commandant of the National
leadership institute in Kyankwazi Henry Masiko warned the public against
deliberate mismanagement of natural resources
21/6/07
Wildlife officials are offering a reward for information about a shooting
that left two baby golden eagles dead in their nest and a third injured
after it escaped in Iron County west of Cedar City.
20/6/07
The death of a panther in the Sariska tiger reserve has again raised
concerns over the safety of wild animals in the sanctuary that has already
lost all of its tigers due to poaching.
20/6/07
Snakes hidden in lawn gnomes smuggled into Australia. During a routine
check of international mail June 10 an officer discovered two snakes and
three lizards stuffed inside three of the diminutive garden figurines in a
shipment from Britain.
19/6/07
EU to ban cat and dog fur trade. The European Parliament has backed a ban
on cat and dog fur imports, in a move to curb the slaughter of millions of
cats and dogs in China
19/6/07
A man accused of killing or transporting 100 migratory birds, including
great-horned owls and red-tailed hawks, has reached a plea agreement with
federal prosecutors, court documents show.
19/6/07
China will inevitably lift its ban on the trade of tiger bones and body
parts, a wildlife official told state media, saying groups seeking to profit
from the government's captive-bred tigers were too strong to resist.
19/6/07
The League Against Cruel Sports is issuing a clear warning to hunts that
illegal activity will simply not be tolerated.
19/6/07
The RSPCA is calling on the government to rule out a badger cull once and
for all, as a scientific study on the effects of badger culling on the
spread of bovine tuberculosis in cattle is published.
18/6/07
Almost 60% of Zimbabwe country’s wildlife has been wiped out through
rampant poaching and organised plunder by newly-resettled farmers and
cartels headed by powerful politicians, conservationists have said.
18/6/07
Baby boom for endangered tigers. The endangered Siberian tiger has been
given a boost, with the birth in captivity of 84 cubs since March this year,
Chinese state media report.
17/6/07
Milan airport shut by hare plague. Officials have been forced to suspend
flights into an airport in the Italian city of Milan due to a plague of hares.
The animals invaded the runways at Milan's Linate Airport - and affected the
operation of vital equipment
17/6/07
Poisoning of birds of prey hits a record high. THE NUMBER of birds of prey
poisoned illegally in Scotland rose to a record high last year after an
eight-year campaign by Labour and LibDem ministers to crack down on wildlife
crime.
16/6/07
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16/6/07
The RSPCA is appealing for information after a cat was
caught in a snare in Clowne, near Chesterfield, on Monday, 4 June.
16/6/07
A budget row dominated the final day of the Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species (CITES) forum. Member states approved a cut in real terms in
CITES' budget, which could compromise attempts to control the illegal wildlife
trade.
16/6/07
The last of a pack of endangered Mexican gray wolves--an alpha male and female
and their seven pups--have been trapped and removed from the Gila Wilderness,
and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the adults will not return to the
wild.
16/6/07
The Wildlife authorities would not have asked for more: the stock surrendered by
Kashmiri furriers under an agreement in the past two weeks includes skin and fur
coats of rare species like clouded leopards and tiger which are found in
geographical areas other than north India
16/6/07
A midlands coursing club has been fined 300 Euro for hunting hares without a
licence and the club's chairman found guilty of the same offence. Westmeath
United Coursing Club was reported to the National Parks and Wildlife Service by
ICABS after a caller to our offices alerted us to the presence of hares on the
club's grounds.
15/6/07
China's bloody and brutal 'entertainment' (graphic & disturbing footage)
15/6/07
Police investigate the suspected poisoning in the Cairngorms of one of the UK's
rarest birds of prey. The red kite, which had been radio tagged by RSPB
Scotland, was found near Tomintoul, Moray, last month.
15/6/07
Kenyan anti-poaching forces have killed at least six gunmen and arrested others
suspected of shooting elephants for their ivory. At least 15 elephants have been
killed there in the past four months
15/6/07
A UN forum on Thursday approved a landmark nine-year ban on international ivory
trade to stem a surge in poaching that has killed up to 20,000 elephants per
year.
15/6/07
New Delh (IANS) As the plunge in the number of tigers in the country rings alarm
bells, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Namo Narayan Meena has
called for a more conscious and concerted action against wildlife crimes at the
regional, national and trans-national levels.
15/6/07
China in the hotseat at UN wildlife trade forum. A voracious appetite for
wildlife products driven by a juggernaut economy has pushed China into the
spotlight at the UN forum for trade in endangered species as never before,
officials and major conservation groups here said Thursday.
14/6/07
The UN body regulating wildlife commerce rebuked China for large-scale tiger
farming Wednesday and cautioned Beijing not to lift a domestic ban on the trade
in products made from tiger parts.
14/6/07
The Hague, The Netherlands One of the greatest threats to the survival of tigers
in the wild was averted today, after parties to CITES (Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) adopted a
decision prohibiting the captive breeding of tigers for trade in their parts and
derivatives.
14/6/07
A Utah man was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Reno for illegally
taking 124 Nevada bobcats and violating the Lacey Act, a Federal law that
prohibits trade in wildlife, fish, and plants that have been illegally taken,
possessed, transported or sold.
14/6/07
The body regulating wildlife trade told China to stop breeding tigers for
traditional medicine, but failed to reach an agreement on whether to loosen a
global ban on ivory sales.
13/6/07
Save London’s Wildlife Crime Unit. The Wildlife Crime Unit (WCU) in London
plays a vital role in tracking down and prosecuting wildlife criminals. In the
last 10 years the WCU has seized over 30,000 endangered species products from
London’s black market, including items made from tigers, rhinos, bears,
elephants, reptiles, and musk deer. But proposed budget cuts by the Metropolitan
Police will reduce the WCU by half, severely hampering their fight against
wildlife crime.
13/6/07
Bickering African countries threw an international trade conference into
deadlock over whether to ease an 18-year ban on ivory sales, with opponents
warning it will increase the poaching threat in countries where elephants have
almost disappeared.
13/6/07
Tiger poaching continues at an alarming pace. Seizures of tiger skins, bones and
fat as well as iron traps in the past four weeks indicate that poachers are
extremely active in the wildlife sanctuaries of Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra
and Madhya Pradesh
13/6/07
Poachers have shot the last two white rhinos in Zambia, killing one and wounding
the other, in a night operation at the Mosi-Oa-Tunya national park in
Livingstone, an official said Tuesday.
13/6/07 End
of the tiger tale To Valmik Thapar, it is a matter of principle, of human
dignity, and distortion of the traditional relationship between mankind and
nature. To me it is disgusting," he thunders. "It's not
civil to have tiger farms; it's not part of anyone's dream."
13/6/07
The Bush administration today proposed cutting 1.5 million acres from Northwest
forests considered critical to the survival of the northern spotted owl,
reopening the 1990s battle between timber production and wildlife habitat on
public lands.
13/6/07
India will soon sign a tripartite protocol with Bhutan, Myanmar and Bangladesh
on tiger conservation, the ministry of Environment and Forest informed the
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species meeting in Hague this
week
12/6/07
CLASHES IN LEBANON DISRUPT BETA. We
really wished we had some good news this time, but as you may have heard there
are, again, more clashes in Lebanon. It seems that we are not entitled to have
any time with some kind of peace, there always has to be something dangerous
happening and in the end it is the innocents and the animals that suffer the
most.
12/6/07
Help Us To End Bullfighting.From the moment the bull enters the ring, he is
destined to die. His death will be slow and painful, and the last moments of his
life will be full of terror and confusion as he hears the sounds of a jeering
crowd. For the bull, bullfighting is no “competition”. It is simply
slaughter for human entertainment.
12/6/07
Scotland's most senior justice minister has welcomed a
proposed by-law banning airguns in Aberdeen.
Anthony's view I support this
idea as well but all of the UK and Scotland and Wales as well.
11/6/07
Russia Establishes First National Park for the Siberian Tiger in the Russian Far
East, says WWF.
11/6/07
At the opening news conference for the Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species (CITES) meeting, Willem Wijnstekers gave more answers on
ivory than anything else - in particular, on the question of whether even a very
limited legal ivory trade would stimulate elephant poaching.
11/6/07
National park rangers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are battling to save a
2-month-old gorilla found clinging to its dead mother, who was shot dead through
the back of the head, conservationists said on Sunday
11/6/07
With poachers killing at least eight Asiatic lions in the Gir Wildlife
Sanctuary, the Gujarat Government has decided to strengthen man management in
and around the sanctuary areas by recruiting additional field staff. The state
will also augment the existing fleet of vehicles and improve communication
networks to protect the big cats.
11/6/07
The Rajasthan Police have been honoured with the Clark R Bavin Wildlife Law
Enforcement Awards, 2007, at the ongoing Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species Conference of the Parties being held in the Hague, the
Netherlands, for their bravery and commitment towards wildlife law enforcement.
10/6/07
The League Against Cruel Sports has given a cautious welcome to the decision by
the NIO Department of Environment to extend the Temporary Protection Order
placed on the Irish Hare.
10/6/07
The state Senate voted 19-8 Friday to allow the Oregon Department of Fish and
Wildlife to deputize volunteer houndsmen using radio-collared dogs to chase
troublesome cougars up trees so the otherwise elusive cats can be shot at close
range.
10/6/07
The rise of organised criminal gangs trading in rhino horns has boosted poaching
in some African countries, putting the endangered animals at risk, conservation
groups and a UN wildlife pact say.
10/6/07
The world's wild tigers are on a "catastrophic" path as numbers
continue to decline because of increased poaching. The preliminary results of
the tiger census released by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) once again
prove that our prized national mascot is in dire straits.
8/6/07
The bald eagle is officially about to become a conservation success story"
for the U.S. government, which has worked for more than three decades to help
the national symbol recover from habitat destruction, illegal shooting and
contamination of its food source.
8/6/07
With fur back in fashion, the illegal fur trade is also on the rise, wildlife
crime experts said Thursday at a world forum in The Hague on regulating wildlife
commerce.
8/6/07
The U.S. Forest Service issued draft plans on Tuesday that could allow increased
poisoning of prairie dogs on national grasslands in Nebraska and South Dakota,
including the nation's most successful reintroduction area for endangered
black-footed ferrets.
7/6/07
Five men involved in an organised dog-fighting enterprise have been given prison
sentences following a major RSPCA undercover operation.
7/6/07
In the second private prosecution brought by the League Against Cruel Sports,
both Richard Down and Adrian Pillivant from the Quantock Staghounds, have been
found guilty. They were convicted at Bristol Magistrates Court on 7th June
2007 for breaching section 1 of the Hunting Act after chasing deer with hounds
in February 2007. Anthony's
view Excellent news this.
7/6/07
Africa's wild rhinos, already classified as threatened with extinction, are
under severe pressure from poachers tied to organized criminal networks,
conservationists said Wednesday.
7/6/07
Police aim to hunt down crimes against
wildlife. MILLOM police are today launching a crackdown on people committing
wildlife crimes. Wildlife Watch aims to encourage more witnesses of wildlife
crime to come forward anonymously.
7/6/07
Chad's President Idriss Deby Itno has detached 400 regular army soldiers to
defend the remnants of a once-thriving elephant population decimated by
poachers, the country's top conservation official said.
6/6/07
To protect spotted owl, larger rival is targeted. To save the northern spotted
owl, federal authorities have listed the bird under the Endangered Species Act,
set aside 7 million acres of forest for owl habitat, and imposed stiff fines on
those who harm the chocolate-colored football-sized raptors.
5/6/07
IFAW investigation pushes eBay to announce global ban of all international ivory
trade. International online commerce site eBay has today said that it will
announce a ban on the international trade of elephant ivory on all of its sites
around the globe, creating the first-ever online international trade ban of
elephant ivory.
5/6/07
A gamekeeper who used live pigeons in cages as bait and laced the carcasses of
pheasants with deadly poisons to lure birds of prey yesterday avoided a jail
sentence.
5/6/07
Conservation groups today filed a lawsuit in Idaho federal district court
challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to eliminate
Endangered Species Act protections for the Yellowstone area’s iconic grizzly
bear population.
5/6/07
Africa urged to conserve land for wildlife. A global advocacy group, Peace Parks
Foundation, is calling on African governments to set aside at least two percent
of the continent's land for wildlife conservation.
5/6/07
A Campaign group for badgers has welcomed government plans to seek independent
advice on tackling TB Defra raised the possibility of a cull last year to stop
the spread of the disease Trevor Lawson spokesman for the Badger Trust said.
4/6/07
THE HAGUE. Representatives from 171 nations monitored by a small army of
conservationists and wildlife advocates began debating dozens of measures
yesterday, some highly contested, regulating the global trade in wildlife.
4/6/07
POACHING is not restricted to bigger animals but to insects like butterflies,
says Sonya V Kapoor, whose documentary film on extinction of butterflies is one
of the seven films on Wildlife Crime , to be screened next week
3/6/07
Elephants and the ivory trade come under the spotlight as the Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) summit opens.
3/6/07
Carved up for the dinner table, ground up for medicine or simply sold off as
exotic pets, Asia's endangered species are at the core of a lucrative smuggling
trade that shows little sign of easing off.
3/6/07
Hunts behaving badly this is a video on You Tube.
3/6/07
Quantock Staghounds duo await verdict. A verdict is not likely to be returned
until next week on the private prosecution of the huntsman and whipper-in of the
Quantock Staghounds accused of breaching the Hunting Act.
2/6/07
A limited sale of ivory has been approved by a committee ahead of this week's
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
(CITES) which opens officially Sunday.
2/6/07
Illegal ivory trafficking will figure prominently in the upcoming 14th
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species Conference of the
Parties (CITES-CoP) after recent, huge seizures of contraband ivory and a
proposal for legal sales
2/6/07
India will soon set up a Wildlife Crime Control Bureau to conserve
"national heritage" in the face of rising incidents of poaching and
trade in wildlife products.
2/6/07
FALCONS would soon become an endangered species as a result of food shortage,
accidents and effect of pesticides, according to Dr Zubair Medammal, the first
Asian scientist to win a doctoral degree in falcon studies.
1/6/07
Concerned with reports of the disappearing pug-marks, the Union Government has
decided to set up a multi-disciplinary crime control bureau to work on a mandate
of detection and prosecution of networks and individuals engaged in the poaching
of tigers and other endangered species.
1/6/07
Banning the trade in endangered wildlife can actually result in increased trade
in the animals and their parts, a report published Thursday said. The finding,
reported in the journal Nature, is likely to fuel debate among conservationists
who disagree over how to best curb the trade in endangered species.
1/6/07
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking information about the shooting
death of a Mexican gray wolf whose carcass was found about 20 miles east of
Reserve.