Defending the indefensible? How familiar this sounds coming from that part of the world … another dose of bad news about
poaching, wildlife and environmental crimes …
in the spotlight today ……………………
Zimbabwe defends its decision to export over 60 baby elephants abroad despite protests http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/zimbabwe-defends-its-decision-to-export-over-60-baby-elephants-abroad-despite-protests-9965330.html
The selling of these elephants is a cruel, despicable trade, driven by those who care not about the elephants.
This is all about greed and money. It has nothing to do with conservation, education or elephant population control in Zimbabwe.
What kind of zoos and individuals would want to profit from wildlife cruelty and alleged government corruption in Zimbabwe. Which zoos in FRANCE, UAE and CHINA? Who are the people profiting from this trade? Why are they hiding their identity?
Conservation outrage as Zim exports elephants to China http://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/Conservation-outrage-as-Zim-exports-elephants-to-China-20150108
No 313 Wildlife Trade News 9th January 2015
Let’s Weigh in on the Cruelty in Zoos http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mimi-bekhechi/cruelty-in-zoos_b_6422446.html?ncid=tweetlnkukhpmg00000001
Illegal Ivory Sales in California Contribute to Rise in African Elephant Poaching http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/illegal-ivory-sales-in-california-are-contributing-to-rise-in-african-elephant-poaching/
The Greed and Agony Behind the Curtains of the Chinese Circus http://forcechange.com/17853/the-greed-and-agony-behind-the-curtains-of-the-chinese-circus/
IAR is disgusted and saddened by Russian trade in baby orangutans
Speaker Toni G. Atkins Introduces Bill to Protect Elephants and Rhinos from Poachers. USA In response to the global wildlife crisis in which an average of 96 elephants are being slaughtered daily for their ivory in Africa, Assembly Speaker Toni G. Atkins today introduced AB 96 to close loopholes that prevent the effective enforcement of existing California law prohibiting the sale of ivory.
Zambian Farmer Implicates Wildlife Traffikers . extract: The buyers are generally Congolese and Chinese.http://www.newsrecord.co/zambian-farmer-implicates-wildlife-traffikers/
Petition against elephant torture, bull races. INDIA http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/petition-to-centre-against-elephant-torture-bull-races/article6770059.ece
Brisk trade threatens slow lorises
http://www.traffic.org/home/2015/1/8/brisk-trade-threatens-slow-lorises.html
Slow lorises under threat. MYANMAR/CHINA http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/national-news/12751-slow-lorises-under-threat.html
Protecting South African rhinos with space telescope technology
Read more at http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1113310520/protecting-south-african-rhinos-with-space-telescope-technology-010815/#391I3f1iUlDeXOhk.99
Guyana creates task force to protect wildlife, curb hunting http://thenewage.co.za/148364-1020-53-Guyana_creates_task_force_to_protect_wildlife_curb_hunting
Online media used to spread wildlife poaching: INDONESIA – See more at: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/01/08/online-media-used-spread-wildlife-poaching-activist.html#sthash.mn2ncNAj.dpuf
Indonesia to weaken peatlands protection to support plantations http://news.mongabay.com/2015/0108-lbell-peatlands-law-indonesia.html
Good news for elephants as 4th major Hong Kong retailer pulls ivory products from shelves RT http://bit.ly/1Fsf3cU
Kalimantan community maps forest to thwart timber companies http://news.mongabay.com/2015/0108-gfrn-bell-nugraha-tumbang-bahanei-residents-resist-logging-pressure.html
Sulawesi community vies to maintain rights to forest http://news.mongabay.com/2015/0107-gfrn-bell-chandra-karampuang-vies-to-keep-forest-rghts.html
Palm oil threatens community forest in Central Kalimantan http://news.mongabay.com/2015/0107-gfrn-bell-nugraha-delang-community-manages-forest.html
How black rhinos and local communities help each other in Namibia http://news.mongabay.com/2015/0107-hance-muntifering-interview.html
(eia) Ivory products pulled from fourth major Hong Kong retailer
Another major department store has announced it is scrapping the sale of elephant ivory products amid pressure from animal welfare activists and lawmakers.
The Chinese Goods Centre (CGCL) in North Point is the fourth major retailer to slap a ban on ivory sales within 12 months, after similar measures were implemented by Wing On, Yue Hwa and Chinese Arts & Crafts last year.
The 52-year-old department store said it had told its tenant supplier in late November to stop selling products made of ivory items listed under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
"We are aware that a business … should not only be about profit, it should also take on its social and environmental and conservation responsibility," CGCL director Wong Chow Kuen-kuen wrote in a letter.
The letter was a reply to pro-Beijing lawmaker Elizabeth Quat, following repeated demands from her for the store to halt ivory product sales.
Full story at http://www.scmp.com/…/ivory-products-pulled-fourth-major-ho…
Image: Carvings made from woolly mammoth tusks, not elephants, remain on display at the Chinese Goods Centre (c) KY Cheng
EIA
China: an actress and 10 others arrested for selling and buying ivory and rhino horn carvings
http://photo.china.com.cn/news/2015-01/06/content_34488664.htm
The role of transnational advocacy networks in combating wildlife crime: the case of the illegal ivory trade
SEA SHEPHERD Young Risso’s dolphin calves being transferred to hunting boat & dumped back out to sea after this morning’s slaughter. JAPAN
Sea Shepherd’s epic chase across the Indian Ocean sets new record Environmentalists pursue Nigerian poachers for 22 days from Antarctica across the Indian Ocean http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/antarctica/11334295/Sea-Shepherds-epic-chase-across-the-Indian-Ocean-sets-new-record.html
Czechmate for horn smuggling pipeline extract: The Czech Republic has charged three Vietnamese alleged to be members of an international crime syndicate specialising in trafficking rhino horn.
What would you do with 6 tons of crushed ivory? http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2015/01/what-would-you-do-with-6-tons-of-crushed-ivory/
