Government rejects elephants for pets e-petition
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Pachyderm disappointment We're very sorry to announce that Her Maj's government has decided to reject the following e-petition which attracted a creditable 655 signatures:â¦
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The American Zoo and Aquarium Association on Thursday denied Detroit Zoo director Ron Kagan&#39;s final appeal to send the two aging, arthritic elephants to one of two US sanctuaries where they could roam hundreds of acres.
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The Sri Lankan government rejects a Tamil Tiger demand for peace talks to resume unconditionally.
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India will appeal to a U.N. wildlife forum to retain a ban on trading in tiger parts, despite Chinese lobbying to legalise trade in organs of the endangered big cats, the government said on Tuesday.
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Graham Bradley's appeal against a five-year racing ban is unsuccessful.
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The environment minister proposed a package of measures Wednesday to slow rampant elephant population growth &#151; including limited killing and contraception &#151; but stressed there would be no mass slaughter. The elephant population of 20,000 is growing at a rate of more than 6 percent per year, disrupting the delicate biodiversity in the flagship Kruger National Park and other wildlife parks, Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said.
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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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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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KAMPALA, Uganda Feb. 28 -- South African wildlife officials on Wednesday proposed new elephant management rules that would allow burgeoning populations to be culled, a controversial practice banned since 1994 as unnecessarily cruel to the beloved but destructive animals.
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Attempts to restrict trade in two threatened shark species fail at a conference on endangered species.
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Calls to ban hi-tech locks that limit what people can do with digital media have been rejected.
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An electronic petition of the UK Prime Minister's office that garnered 1,414 signatures calling flatly for a ban on the use of digital rights management techniques in all digital content, was not so flatly, though quite clearly rejected on Monday. A December report commissioned by Her Majesty's Treasury may have prompted the rejection.
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Hong Kong&#39;s highest court rejected the government&#39;s request that a 67-year-old tenant be given hours instead of weeks to appeal the sale of a $2.7 billion property trust, putting its Dec. 20 trading debut in doubt.
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Kuwait's parliament rejects a bill that would have seen the government write off its citizens' private debts.
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Hold the line Foreign IP Telephony firms such as Skype and Yahoo! will not be able to sell their services to Indian businesses under a proposed government clampdown, The India Times reports.â¦
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By CLARE NULLIS  CAPE TOWN, South Africa - South Africa's government announced restrictions Tuesday on the hunting of lions born and raised in captivity, overriding protests by breeders who warn they could face financial ruin and be forced to euthanize their animals.
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European Union environment ministers rejected an appeal Monday to force Austria to lift a ban on two biotech crop products, which the European Commission says violates international trade rules.