Wildlife conference starts as battle lines drawn
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A major wildlife conference started yesterday in Bangkok bringing together 166 nations to scrutinise trade in some of the world&#39;s rarest species amid promises of greater action to fight smuggling.
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A special meeting of the International Whaling Commission began on Tuesday, with host Japan and like-minded countries hoping the gathering will build momentum to resume commercial hunting of the giant creatures.
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A hearing to decide whether to introduce limits for cockling on the Dee Estuary gets under way.
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A showdown is expected at union Aslef's annual conference between supports of past and present leaders.
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Proposals to relax the bans on the trade in elephant ivory and hunting minke whales are being discussed at a convention in Bangkok. Send us your views.
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Wildlife experts from around 60 countries gathered in Scotland Monday to push for an agreement to help save rare, migratory birds of prey.
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The fight for the support of conservationists, hunters and anglers is being waged from the pages of Field and Stream magazine to the strategy sessions of the Sierra Club.
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Fox-hunting and the Iraq war threaten to overshadow the start of Labour&#39;s conference on Sunday - expected to be the last before the general election.
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RENO, Nev. - It's not all checking hunting and fishing licenses. Sometimes the issues are bigger. Like when a Nevada game warden was handed the chore of figuring out how to separate two bull elk who locked horns while sparring and couldn't untangle them.  The saga began Nov.
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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 liberate trade in some species at international talks starting today in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Compromise deal on saving the planet has been hammered out at climate change conference
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Australia will host a conference here this week to try to win international support for a campaign to save endangered seabirds from being wiped out by fishing and pollution, the government said.
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A badger cull is proposed as part of the fight against bovine TB, but animal groups are opposing the move.
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More than 5,000 scientists, conservationists and politicians meet in Thailand over the next week to hammer out a blueprint for saving some of the world's most endangered species and fragile ecosystems.
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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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Pro-hunt campaigners are preparing a legal challenge to the Parliament Act, which was used to force through a ban on hunting with dogs.
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Officials from 75 nations begin on Monday talks critical to whale conservation amid political pressure to lift a 20-year ban on commercial hunting of the gentle giants.