The daily dose of bad news from around the world …
Poaching, Wildlife and Environmental Crimes galore …
in the spotlight today ……………………
DOES THIS CHIMPANZEE LOOKED BORED OUT OF ITS MIND TO YOU?
THAT’S BECAUSE IT IS.
WELL YOU’D BE WOULDN’T YOU IF YOU WERE LOCKED IN A CONCRETE
AND WIRE CAGE, SUCH AS THIS ONE AT SHANGHAI ZOO LAST WEEK.
SHOCKING – ISN’T IT?
But, such horrific treatment of chimpanzees hasn’t stopped
CITES CHINA from permitting 130 or more baby chimpanzees, stolen from West Africa
to enter China unhindered by the law. It’s so wrong, isn’t it? It also only
encourages the illegal wildlife trade, doesn’t it? The CITES Secretariat took a look at the case and,
to no one’s surprise, found, in their view, China had done nothing wrong!
photo courtesy Qian Jia.
NOT FOR NOTHING IS CITES KNOWN BY SOME AS …
CITES (Chinese Influence Terminates Endangered Species)
STILL NO REPLY FROM CITES PHILIPPINES CONCERNING THEIR HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS
ORANGUTAN TRADE WITH CHINA.
These http://www.cites.org/eng/cms/index.php/component/cp/country/PH are the officials being secretive about the trade. What are you now thinking?
No 408 Wildlife Trade News: 14th May
Chinese Netizens Call This Zoo an ‘Animal Concentration Camp’
Haicang Wildlife Zoo in Xiamen City, Fujian Province, is home to a pair of Aldabra giant tortoises—one of the largest species of tortoises in the world—that were given by Mauritius to the Xiamen government in April 2012. (NA COMMENT: CITES officials in China approved this import and zoo. Disgraceful, isn’t it? Will the abuse of power and animals by CITES officials in China ever end – be stopped?) http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1352259-chinese-netizens-call-this-zoo-an-animal-concentration-camp/
REMEMBER THIS SCANDAL IN 2013?
THE TRADE WAS ALL APPROVED BY CITES.
SICKENING ISN’T IT?
HOW CAN CITES OFFICIALS SLEEP AT NIGHT?
NOT FORGETTING
THE 500 0R MORE ADULT CHIMPANZEES KILLED TO GET THESE BABIES…..ALL BECAUSE OF CHINA.
“Bai Shan Lin has most certainly contravened laws, regulations and approved policies of Guyana” EXTRACT In August 2014, after a series of articles in the Guyanese media about Chinese company Bai Shan Lin’s logging operations, a Guyanese PhD student wrote to the Norwegian government with a simple question: Is the Low Carbon Development Strategy just a sham? SHAME ON NORWAY http://www.redd-monitor.org/2015/05/13/bai-shan-lin-has-most-certainly-contravened-laws-regulations-and-approved-policies-of-guyana/
Rhino poaching rate rises 18 percent in South Africa http://news.mongabay.com/2015/0513-hance-rhino-poaching-rate.html
MNS: Tapir extinct in Sabah first. MALAYSIA http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=99739
Taking botanical trade and conservation seriously. EXTRACT Many orchids are protected under national legislation, and international trade in wild orchids is tightly restricted under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). These alarming findings, however, may be overlooked in some circles because they involve plants rather than animals.
Wild-collected, protected orchids (Dendrobium spp.) for sale on the Thailand-Myanmar border. Photo – Jacob Phelps / CIFOR http://blog.cifor.org/28481/taking-botanical-trade-and-conservation-seriously#.VVQy0JMXEsf
Elephant Watch. As poachers grow bolder, Andrea Turkalo records the behavior of a vanishing species. (THE NEW YORKER) http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/11/elephant-watch
Wakayama governor says Japan’s suspension from global zoo association is ‘bullying’(NA comment: If that’s what they call bullying, one wonders what they call the mass slaughter of defenceless dolphins?) http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/13/national/wakayama-governor-says-japans-suspension-global-zoo-association-bullying/#.VVNQlpMXEsc
Sale of wildlife laws flouted in Peru market http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02r9y9q
Thought for the day: “If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” Gandhi
Africa begins Journey to Combat Illegal Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora(NA comment: yet another talking shop)http://www.birdlife.org/africa/news/africa-begins-journey-combat-illegal-trade-wild-fauna-and-flora
Police nab man with R200 000 of abalone. SOUTH AFRICA
http://citizen.co.za/380942/police-nab-man-with-r200-000-of-abalone
10 arrested in panda-poaching case in southern China; meat, gun recovered http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-china-panda-poaching-20150513-story.html
Supermarket ordered to remove products with anti-palm oil labels. MALAYSIA
http://news.asiaone.com/news/malaysia/supermarket-ordered-remove-products-anti-palm-oil-labels
Mozambique: Timber Operators Suffer From Anti-Corruption Drive http://allafrica.com/stories/201505120168.html
Two men imprisoned for trading endangered monkeys. CHINA http://www.globalpost.com/article/6547124/2015/05/13/two-men-imprisoned-trading-endangered-monkeys
No elephant be treated with cruelty: SC to Centre. INDIA http://www.ptinews.com/news/6027216_No-elephant-be-treated-with-cruelty–SC-to-Centre–others-.html
The Dark Truth Behind the Adorable Video of an Orangutan Who ‘Adopted’ 3 Tiger Cubs (VIDEO) http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/the-dark-truth-behind-video-of-an-orangutan-feeding-tiger-cubs/
Tourists in Thailand have no idea they shouldn’t be doing this http://theweek.com/articles/554153/tourists-thailand-have-no-idea-shouldnt-doing
Corrupt timber companies had taken anti-graft pledge. SARAWAK/MALAYSIA http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1417589
MACC freezes state assemblyman’s funds in illegal logging sweep in Sarawak –
| Romanian deputies reject Forestry Code re-examination http://www.romania-insider.com/romanian-deputies-reject-forestry-code-re-examination/148663/ |
Attempt to kill rhino foiled, poacher gunned down. INDIA http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=319037
Namibia: Rhino Trust Staff Members Cleared http://allafrica.com/stories/201505131564.html
Alaskan outfitter faces bans, $20,000 fine and forfeiture of trophies http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1536105/alaskan-outfitter-faces-bans-20-000-fine-and-forfeiture-of-trophies
Police and Wild Life still digging a temple premises in Maharagama in search of a buried elephant calf. SRI LANKA http://www.hirunews.lk/109388/police-wild-life-still-digging-temple-premises-in-maharagama-search-buried-elephant-calf
Indonesia extends landmark logging moratorium http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/government-economy/indonesia-extends-landmark-logging-moratorium
Authorities seize illegal timber near Kratie road. CAMBODIA http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-seize-illegal-timber-near-kratie-road
Logging loopholes targeted. CAMBODIA http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/logging-loopholes-targeted
New mapping project uncovers road networks in Peru’s primary forests http://news.mongabay.com/2015/0513-mrn-gfrn-watsa-maap-releases-images-of-new-roads-in-proteced-area.html
Denuding the mountains of Quezon http://manilastandardtoday.com/2015/05/14/denuding-the-mountains-of-quezon/
Indonesia Comes Up Short in $1 Billion Bid to Save Forests A moratorium is renewed, but progress in saving trees and slowing carbon emissions has been slow. WALL STREET JOURNAL http://www.wsj.com/articles/indonesia-comes-up-short-in-1-billion-bid-to-save-forests-1431536197
Norway’s $900 bln fund seeks faster action against unethical firms
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3080153/Norways-900-bln-fund-seeks-faster-action-against-unethical-firms.html#ixzz3a5P7HCFC
Argentine judge to decide Sandra the orangutan’s fate http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1417922
Can the Iranian cheetah outrun extinction? http://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/can-the-iranian-cheetah-outrun-extinction-1.2205232
Poaching clues unearthed. INDIA http://www.assamtimes.org/node/13670
Over 30,000 signed commitments not to use rhino horns. VIETNAM A signing programme aimed towards ending the use of rhino horns launched by the Centre of Hands-on Actions and Networking for Growth and Environment (CHANGE) in conjunction with Save the WildAid has achieved positive results after a month since it was launched with over 30,000 signatures collected.
