Threatened Species
Q&A: 'Children Mustn't See Fish Only in Pictures'Inter Press Service | 27 Sep 2010A casual visit to any of Europe's major supermarkets could leave a shopper with the impression that there is a boundless supply of fish in the continent's waters. The true picture is far less rosy. With about 88 percent of the European Union's fish stocks overexploited, EU vessels are travelling increasingly longer distances before bringing home their catches.
Fisheries | Threatened Species Predictive analytics could save endangered zebrasYahoo! News | 20 Sep 2010Conservation charity MarwellWildlife is using business analytics software to help conserve theendangered Grévy'sZebra . The 15-year-old charity has a focus on protecting the rare breed of zebra. It has been monitoring the species using aerial and ground surveys. In February 2010, Marwell Wildlife led a collaborative effort to survey the region of Kenya inhabited by the zebra.
Kenya | Access to Information | Threatened Species East Africa: Future of Mountain Gorilla Trips in DangerAllAfrica.com | 31 May 2010A stark choice faces Uganda and Rwanda over the future of ecotourist trips to visit the rare mountain gorillas, following a new report which warns that close encounters with humans are having an alarming effect on their behaviour.The mountain gorilla is on the verge of extinction, with less than 700 of these species found in the wild. Their very last redoubt is in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park of southwest Uganda, and in the mists of the Virunga Mountains of the Great Lakes.
Threatened Species | Tourism and Biodiversity South Africa: Relief for Abalone Right HoldersAllAfrica.com | 05 May 2010Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister, Tina Joemat-Pettersson, has approved an additional R6 million as part of the social relief plan for commercial abalone right holders and crew. "Government has carefully considered the pleas made by abalone right holders for additional relief measures and we remain concerned about their plight, especially in the context of dwindling wild abalone stocks," she said.
South Africa | Coastal and Marine Issues | Fisheries | Threatened Species Kenya: Weighing Options to Dispose of Ivory Stockpile, After Cites VoteAllAfrica.com | 05 Apr 2010Even after successfully waging a campaign that saw the defeat of a proposal for a one-troff ivory sale by Tanzania and Zambia, Kenya is considering various ways of disposing of its own stockpiles.In addition to this, the country will have to conform to the proposals laid down in the Elephant Action Plan that was ratified at the recently concluded Conference of Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species held in Doha, Qatar.
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