Kenya Withdraws Lion Protection Plan at CITES
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Kenya withdrew Monday a proposal to give lions more protection by clamping a lid on global trade in the big cat and its body parts, deferring to suggestions to give the matter more study.
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Wild animals are vanishing Kenya&#39;s oldest game reserve which borders the airport at Nairobi, the Kenya Wildlife Service warned in a report unveiled on Friday.
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The Kenya Wildlife Service has begun moving 150 elephants from a small reserve to its largest national park because of overcrowding with rhinos, a spokesman said Wednesday.
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ABUJA  - An African Union commission overseeing the shaky truce in the western Sudanese region of Darfur ordered Sudan&#39;s government to halt a two-week-old offensive against rebel forces and to withdraw.
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A UN human rights mission said on Wednesday it was halting a planned visit to Sudan's troubled Darfur region after Sudan declined to give them visas.
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Kenya's government rejects fresh international attempts, led by ex-UN head Kofi Annan, to mediate in its crisis.
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A controversial plan to hunt endangered humpback whales has been suspended, a top Japan official says.
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The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) bans all commercial sales of the rare Asian Irrawaddy dolphin.
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African nations are engaged in last-ditch negotiations on elephants and ivory as the CITES meeting nears its end.
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Carel van Heerden feels no reason to apologise about his doomed lion-breeding business. &quot;Trophy hunters will always exist. We're taking the pressure off the rest of the roaming lions in Africa.&quot;
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Investigations of massive corruption scandals in Kenya like Anglo Leasing will be curtailed by a new law.
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Park rangers fleeing renewed conflict in eastern Congo have abandoned an endangered gorilla reserve.
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By DANIEL LOVERING Associated Press Writer BANGKOK, Thailand . The African elephant has a new line of defense against poachers after a global wildlife conference approved measures aimed at wiping out the continent&#39;s illegal ivory trade.
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Malaysian conservation groups on Wednesday called for a halt to crocodile hunts in the wild jungles of Borneo mounted by Malaysians searching for the remains of a boy feared to have been eaten by one of the reptiles.
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Cambodia's rare Mekong dolphin is  making a tentative comeback from the edge of extinction after  net fishing was banned in its main habitat, Cambodian and World  Wildlife Fund officials said on Wednesday.
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KAMPALA, Uganda Feb. 28 -- South African wildlife officials on Wednesday proposed new elephant management rules that would allow burgeoning populations to be culled, a controversial practice banned since 1994 as unnecessarily cruel to the beloved but destructive animals.
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The African elephant got a new line of defense against poachers Monday after a global wildlife conference approved measures aimed at wiping out the continent's illegal ivory trade.