Another dose of bad news …
in the spotlight today ……………………
Inside the gruesome world of the Siberian Tiger Park in China
No 488 Wildlife Trade News: 16th August 2015
Global wildlife monitors urge external audits of Hong Kong’s ivory stockpile. EXTRACT: Global wildlife monitors have called for external audits of Hong Kong’s ivory stockpile, claiming a below-the-radar change in the way the city counts elephant tusks distorts the actual picture.
The officially declared ivory stock plummeted 47 per cent in two years after a change in accounting methods in 2008.
That suggested a need for yearly audits under strict protocols, Richard Thomas from Traffic, a network that monitored wildlife trade, said. http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1849867/global-wildlife-monitors-urge-external-audits-hong-kongs-ivory
Tortured for tourists: Chained to the same spot for 20 years. Beaten into submission at secret jungle training camps. The terrible plight of Indian elephants by LIZ JONES
We are not the victims – so animal campaigners can never give up.
ALJAZERRA: Peru’s Rotten Wood. People & Power exposes how Peru’s Amazonian rainforest is being stripped bare by corruption. extract with striking similarities to failings by CITES: “It’s not one company that is doing bad business. It’s everybody. Because nobody’s paying attention….. What they [the Peruvian government] have been doing is increasing the penalties in laws and regulations. But if no one is being sanctioned or investigated, what is the point?”
Hunters are flying big game trophies into the UK http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zimbabwe/11794187/Zimbabwes-Mugabe-says-country-failed-to-protect-Cecil-from-foreign-vandals.html
What happened to Ahimsa and the respect for life?
Cruelty to animals is rampant in India and the Subcontinent – the land that has for thousands of years preached respect and compassion for all living things, writes Stephen Prins http://www.sundaytimes.lk/150816/sunday-times-2/what-happened-to-ahimsa-and-the-respect-for-life-160644.html
VIETNAM: Alarm grows at illegal logging http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/environment/138461/alarm-grows-at-illegal-logging.html
How Indonesian forest law is being used against poor people – See more at: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/08/16/how-indonesian-forest-law-being-used-against-poor-people.html#sthash.iX9imj3r.dpuf
INDONESIA: How extractive industry impacts orangutan conservation – See more at: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/08/16/how-extractive-industry-impacts-orangutan-conservation.html#sthash.Rx4Sg3t8.dpuf
NAMIBIA: 48 rhino poaching suspects arrested since June: NamPol – See more at: http://www.namibian.com.na/indexx.php?id=30507&page_type=story_detail&category_id=1#sthash.V9R0KUYb.dpuf
SABAH/SARAWAK: Only jailing illegal loggers, wildlife offenders will work http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=102408
Indonesia`s Navy to destroy 12 foreign fishing boats for poaching
