Thursday, 20 May 2021, 9:59 am
World Animal Protection has today released a new report
that exposes the short fallings in the laws of G20 countries
that continue to cruelly exploit wildlife and leave the
world vulnerable to future pandemics.
Every day,
thousands of wild animals are poached or farmed and sold
into the global multi-billion-dollar trade - as food, pets,
luxury goods, traditional medicine and
entertainment.
The NGO is appealing to G20 world
leaders to ban the global trade in wild animals, warning
that the current system is failing and enables the
transmission of zoonotic diseases’’.
The report
uncovers inefficiencies in G20 countries that enable the
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A BC-based trading company has been fined $60,000 for the illegal import of 434 kg of fins from a threatened shark species.
According to the federal environment ministry, Kiu Yick Trading Co. Ltd. was sentenced to pay the fine after pleading guilty to unlawfully importing species protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), in contravention of the Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of International and Interprovincial Trade Act.
The charge stemmed from an investigation by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) which found that, in February 2018, Kiu Yick Trading Co. Ltd. had unlawfully imported several thousand Carcharhinus falciformis (silky shark) fins, a species protected by CITES.
weekly newspaper.
In a meeting of rhino owners, wildlife vets, conservation NGOs, eco-economists, security experts and SANParks organised by Daily Maverick 168, the outline of a conservation framework began to emerge to offset the alarming decline in the number of wild rhinos in South Africa, where most live.
Key to this would be patrolled strongholds within and outside national parks until poaching can be brought under control. We also need a new global narrative that sees all rhinos as an international herd and a biodiversity treasure. And every rhino keeper, state or private, should be regarded as their custodians.
In a previous article we outlined the problems and bitter polarities in the rhino debate. Asking for a relaxation of entrenched positions with a view to solutions, we called together a wide range of people with specialist knowledge.
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