Trade banned for endangered sawfish
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An international conference on endangered species banned almost all trade Monday in sawfish &#151; large shark-like rays whose long snouts bristling with teeth are in high demand among collectors.
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK  - A U.S. trade agency on Thursday banned imports of future advanced cellphone models using Qualcomm Inc.  chips, potentially hurting the country's biggest wireless services.
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The European Unionâs head office today proposed unprecedented bans on fishing in popular northern waters to safeguard threatened species such as the common cod, a traditional dinner favourite from Sweden to Portugal.
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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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Online auctioneer eBay on Tuesday sided with conservationists by banning international sales of ivory.
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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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An environmental group asked the federal government Tuesday to ban a class of toxic chemical compounds that are found in industrial and household detergents and are believed to cause male fish to develop female characteristics.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 15 (IPS) - Import of gemstones, timber and metal from Burma  have been banned by the European Union in protest against the  violent suppression of protests by Buddhist monks in Rangoon.
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Fishing nations led by Iceland and Russia have blocked U.N. negotiators from imposing a full-fledged ban against destructive bottom trawling on the high seas. After weeks of talks in New York, a United Nations committee that oversees high seas fisheries failed to gain unanimous support this week for ending unregulated bottom trawling.
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Sawtooth sharks, pink coral and the globe-trotting European eel are slated for a hearing Monday at the 171-nation body that regulates trade in wildlife teetering at the edge of biological viability.
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By ROGER ALFORD  FRANKFORT, Ky. - Exports of wild American ginseng could be cut by some 20 percent if the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service bars Kentucky from selling the medicinal herb internationally.
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Online auction site eBay will ban all  international trade of elephant ivory on its sites, the company  said on Tuesday in a move welcomed by an animal welfare group  which found the bulk of the ivory was most likely illegal.
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By The Associated Press  A list of the winners and losers at the two-week meeting of the 171-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in The Hague.  WINNERS:  African elephants: Four southern African countries' can sell their ivory stockpiles.
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Chinese food inspectors have banned meat products from seven U.S. companies from being imported into their country after finding a range of contamination issues in shipments checked on Saturday, according to China's official news agency Xinhua.
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By JIM SUTTON  The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration has temporarily suspended a rule that requires anglers in Atlantic billfish tournaments to use non-offset circle hooks.  Circle hooks have been used for years, mainly in live-release- type events.
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A United Nations forum on endangered  species rejected bids on Friday to put in place controls on the  multi-million dollar trade in two types of sharks, highly  prized for their meat and fins.
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Great white sharks are among many endangered species to gain better international protection at a meeting of 166 countries in Thailand. Restrictions on black rhinos were eased.