Endangered species conference ends
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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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Bangkok - A campaign for a 20-year moratorium on ivory trading failed at a global wildlife conference on Monday amid dismay among some conservationists who said it represented a &quot;death sentence&quot; for elephants.
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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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A third of the 394 known species of apes, monkeys, lemurs and other groups are listed as threatened with extinction in a new report from the World Conservation Union.
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Effort to fertilize oceans to limit warming, and make money, is canceled.
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A five-day U.N. conference on climate change ended Friday in Vienna, Austria, with significant disagreements remaining about how countries should reduce greenhouse gas emissions and daunting estimates about the ... via Buffalo News
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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. No more ivory sales allowed for nine years.
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Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday he has scrapped a proposal that critics said would seriously weaken the law protecting endangered species.
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Attempts to restrict trade in two threatened shark species fail at a conference on endangered species.
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Leaders of the world's eight major industrialized nations will end their summit Friday with a pledge to help nations on the world's poorest continent.
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The world&#39;s &#39;flagship species&#39; on land and sea, whales and elephants, won a reprieve on Tuesday from commercial exploitation at a major conservation conference in Thailand&#39;s capital.
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A list of 15,000 species threatened with extinction - many of them by human activity - is published.
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A Bush administration decision to eliminate the possibility of removing dams to save endangered U.S. Pacific Northwest salmon species is a huge blow to protection efforts, an environmental group said on Wednesday.
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AFTER being around for nearly 30 years, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) itself risks being endangered due to its ineffectiveness in controlling
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The United Nations Conference on Climate Change has ground to a close in Argentina a day later than expected, with the parties at odds over the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
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A new study finds more than a thousand types of plant, bird, mammal and invertebrate are now endangered.
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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.