Conference seeks to combat illegal sales of wildlife
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Wildlife conservationists are expected to push for new trade restrictions to protect fast-disappearing animals and plants, while lobbyists try to free up commerce in some species at international talks starting yesterday in Bangkok.
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BANGKOK : The trade in some of the world&#39;s rarest species from the fearsome great white shark to the delicate orchid will be scrutinised here from Saturday accompanied by demands for tougher action against smugglers.
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The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, in Bangkok has concluded, with conservationists and many of the 166 member nations supportive of steps taken to regulate the trade in rare species.
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The United States and China want to  expand trade regulations to protect Asian yew trees, a plant  that provides the compound for one of the world's top-selling  chemotherapy drugs but is threatened by poaching.
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BANGKOK - The future of dozens of endangered species, from the great white shark to elephants and medicinal trees, will be decided at an international conference on wildlife trade that kicks off here today.
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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.
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The great white shark, traditionally seen as an avid consumer of human flesh, is to be protected from the people it terrifies, an international wildlife conference decided yesterday.
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BANGKOK - A UN conference last week banned commercial trade in the rare Irrawaddy dolphin, a move environmentalists said was needed to save the threatened species.
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Western states grapple with how to address an increasing threat to livestock from wolves and big cats.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands, June 4  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United Nations University, with the support of IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare; http://www.ifaw.org/), unveiled a new and innovative system designed to combat wildlife crime.
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Scientists and officials strengthened efforts to forestall the extinction of thousands of species and protect the world&#39;s habitats in talks in
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Elephants emerged safer and tigers won a vote of support, but sharks and corals failed to win protection at a two-week wildlife trade conference that ended Friday.
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A fight between environmentalists, industry and Congress over the strutting sage grouse
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The rise of organized criminal gangs  trading in rhino horns has boosted poaching in some African  countries, putting the endangered animals at risk, conservation  groups and a U.N. wildlife pact said on Wednesday.
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A group of Western county commissioners who have problems with the Endangered Species Act has petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to have the northern snakehead, an Asian fish that's invaded the East, protected under the act.
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By KEVIN MILLER; OF THE NEWS STAFF  Diplomats and biologists from more than a dozen countries will gather in Bar Harbor next week for the annual meeting of the international coalition that helps set global policies on conserving wild Atlantic salmon.
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Canada and the European Union announced they wanted to have an international conference to draw up rules for protecting endangered fish stocks in the North Atlantic.