African Bush-Meat Hunting Linked to EU Overfishing
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The European Union's heavy fishing off West Africa may be causing a rise in poaching of Africa's wildlife as hungry Africans seek alternative protein, a new study suggests.
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Reseachers have linked the survival of the Acacia tree to Africa's big browsing mammals
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BRUSSELS : European Union fisheries ministers battled to carve out a compromise on hard-hitting plans designed to restore what Brussels says are dangerously low levels of several species including cod.
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Shipped halfway across the world to  Asia as a seafood delicacy, abalone has become a prized  commodity for South African entrepreneurs as well as criminals  who have poached the mollusc almost to extinction.
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The European Commission calls for cuts in quotas of cod, herring and anchovy to conserve stocks.
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Thereâs plenty of haddock and plenty of prawns in the sea, but precious little cod, according to scientific experts. Thatâs why the European Commission wants
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BRUSSELS, Jan 15 (IPS) - 'Fish, pay and go'. These three words  have long been used by green and anti-poverty activists to  describe a raft of agreements, signed since 1979, under which  European Union vessels scoop up as much fish as they can find  from the waters of about 20 poor countries in the wider world.  Little, if any, heed has been paid to the damage inflicted on  marine ecology or to people living in coastal communities.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 31  (IPS) - Conscious that trade issues had become a major  source of friction between African countries and their former  colonial overlords, the European Commission President JosÃ© Manuel  Barroso extended an olive branch in December.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 20 (IPS) - African and European civil society groups are  urging European citizens to put pressure on their governments to  halt regional trade agreements between the European Union and  developing countries.
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Twenty-two African countries bordering the Atlantic Ocean want help from Europe to protect their waters from illegal fishing by foreign boats, the head of a regional body said on Friday.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 18 (IPS) - Europe is undermining its own efforts to strengthen  African agriculture by foisting free trade on the continent, a  Ghanaian farm leader has complained.
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An Aids-like virus has been found in African hunters who have eaten ape meat which is being sold illegally in the UK. A leading scientist has told the File On 4 programme that the virus was probably passed
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Booming global trade in rare forms of wildlife ranging from tropical fish and trees to African lizards is threatening many of them with extinction, conservation group WWF said on Thursday.
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Namibian beef certified as "cheetah-friendly" will soon make its way to the European Union as part of a new strategy to reduce conflict between ranchers and the graceful cats.
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The fate of some of the world's animals and plants may be decided at a conference on wildlife trade.
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Spreading plantations are blamed for a threat to wildlife.
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Talks on national fishing quotas are underway in Brussels between government ministers and the European Commission. The commission recently announced another major round of cuts in the allocations to help conserve stocks.