Your daily dose of bad news about poaching, wildlife and environmental crimes
in the spotlight today ……………………
Myanmar has only 150 tigers left (NA COMMENT: Because China has eaten the rest?) http://www.elevenmyanmar.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8947:myanmar-has-only-150-tigers-left&catid=44:national&Itemid=384
Chinese ordered to put a stop to cruel trade in ivory by wildlife campaigners. (NA comment: NGO’s not afraid to say or do what cowardly CITES bureaucrats should be saying.)
Hollywood blockbuster ‘Africa’ will highlight Hong Kong’s role in the illegal ivory trade http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1706248/hollywood-blockbuster-africa-will-highlight-hong-kongs-role-illegal
Ivory-destruction officials reject calls to invite independent monitors: ( So. China, just like Malaysia, is not serious about curbing the ivory trade or becoming transparent. Nothing has changed, has it? Will either country ever be sanctioned by CITES?)http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1706249/ivory-destruction-officials-reject-calls-invite-independent-monitors
CITES ISN’T WORKING IS IT?
WHY?
WHO CAN WE HOLD RESPONSIBLE?
These three men are very influential over which countries are punished, or not, by CITES.
No one, least of all us, is asking these men to do more than enforce the CITES Convention – which is what they are paid very well to do.
Achim Steiner UNEP John Scanlon CITES Oystein Steiner CITES
Executive Director Secretary General Chairman: Standing Committee
“Those who have the privilege to know
have the duty to act.”
? Albert Einstein
No 327 Wildlife Trade News 8th February 2015
Rampant poaching of wildlife and forest produce devastating for Asia. extract:- See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/the-big-story/asia-report/nepal/story/rampant-poaching-wildlife-and-forest-produce-devastating-asia-#sthash.F5oSfSlE.dpuf
The Massacre of Europe’s Songbirds. ITALYhttp://www.newsweek.com/massacre-europes-songbirds-304716
State earns billions from tourism hunting. TANZANIA http://www.m.dailynews.co.tz/index.php/local-news/41273-state-earns-billions-from-tourism-hunting
National policy to protect elephants in the offing. SRI LANKA – See more at: http://www.nation.lk/edition/breaking-news/item/38145-national-policy-to-protect-elephants-in-the-offing.html#sthash.GWdS58Go.dpuf
Bears in Russia become blind alcoholics after decades of prolonged abuse
The animals were forced to live in cramped and dirty cages (Picture: Nina Zotina) http://metro.co.uk/2015/02/07/bears-in-russia-become-blind-alcoholics-after-decades-of-prolonged-abuse-5053704/
Blind Circus Elephant, Suzy, is First Rescue in Campaign to Place all of India’s 67 Remaining Circus Elephants into Rescue Centers. INDIA http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/02/prweb12502432.htm
Nab poachers – Masidi. SABAH / MALAYSIA (NA COMMENT: It’s taken him how long to say those words? Years – if ever, previously. But, will he walk his talk? Next door in Sarawak the police are much more pro-active and no excuses are accepted) http://www.theborneopost.com/2015/02/08/nab-poachers-masidi/
Don’t ‘bat an eyelid’ on poaching, Masidi tells Sabah wildlife officials. (NA comment: This illustrates, from his comments, just how ineffective his previous director was – as we repeatedly told the minister over the years. He’s now an adviser to a wildlife trust with close connections to the palm oil industry!!) http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015/02/08/Sabah-Masidi-Manjun-Wildlife/
35 pictures of the sharkfin trade that will shock and dismay you
Shark catch in Kesennuma, Japan. Photo by Shawn Heinrichs
Assam forest minister instructs officials to protect wild life
Shocking pictures show Indian officials burning the body of an endangered leopard killed after it mauled four villagers. INDIA
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2943908/Shocking-pictures-Indian-officials-burning-body-endangered-leopard-killed-mauled-four-villagers.html#ixzz3R58piRXt
Washington considers ban on elephant ivory sales
Carved Tusk in a storefront in the Kowloon area of Hong Kong. (Photo by televiseus via Flickr.) http://www.seattleglobalist.com/2015/02/07/washington-considers-ban-elephant-ivory-sales/33380
Big-game hunters under fire from Toronto MPP. Cheri Dinovo calls foul on excursions to kill exotic animals like elephants, zebras and giraffes http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/big-game-hunters-under-fire-from-toronto-mpp-1.2949247
Marine Operations Force seize illegal logs. SARAWAK
http://www.theborneopost.com/2015/02/08/marine-operations-force-seize-illegal-logs/
Sea Shepherd Successfully Shuts Down Illegal Fishing http://business.scoop.co.nz/2015/02/08/sea-shepherd-successfully-shuts-down-illegal-fishing/
Iban landowners to sue police chief for disrespecting their customs – See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/iban-landowners-to-sue-police-chief-for-disrespecting-their-customs#sthash.0EMqIWpl.dpuf
National park: 10 monkeys dead, poisoning suspected. INDIA
http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-national-park-10-monkeys-dead-poisoning-suspected-2059123
A nation ravaged. PAKISTAN http://nation.com.pk/columns/08-Feb-2015/a-nation-ravaged
Chimps still stuck in research labs despite promise of retirement. USA http://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/06/health/research-chimps-stuck-in-labs/index.html
The Cost of Captivity: Similarities in How Farm and Zoo Animals Suffer http://www.onegreenplanet.org/http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/the-cost-of-captivity-similarities-in-how-farm-and-zoo-animals-suffer/
