Commercial whaling ban upheld
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Japan's proposal to resume commercial hunting of minke whales is rejected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.
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The world's whales, porpoises and dolphins have no standing to sue President Bush over the U.S. Navy's use of sonar equipment that harms marine mammals, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
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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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WASHINGTON The Bush administration today upheld the imposition of penalty tariffs on shrimp imports from Brazil, Ecuador, India and Thailand.
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REYKJAVIK, Sep 14 (IPS) - Commercial whaling may start in Iceland again if  the owner of the Hvalur boats has his way.
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In a victory for environmentalists, a federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Bush administration cannot change the standards commercial fisheries must meet before the tuna they catch can carry the "dolphin-safe" label.
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A proposal for a South Atlantic whale sanctuary is defeated at the International Whaling Commission's meeting.
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The Navy can use high-powered sonar during exercises off the Southern California coast, despite the technology's threat to whales and other marine mammals, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
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The Bush administration upheld the imposition of penalty tariffs on shrimp imports from China and Vietnam yesterday, handing a victory to beleaguered US shrimp producers.
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A Danish court upholds a supermarket's decision to dismiss a Muslim woman for wearing her headscarf to work.
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - The International Humane Society is taking a Japanese whaling company to court in Sydney on Tuesday, accusing it of killing whales in an Australian whale sanctuary.
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Japan is confident it can secure the  votes needed to resume commercial trade in whale products and  that this would be a step toward lifting a ban on hunting the  marine giants, a Japanese official said Wednesday.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - A five-year whaling quota for indigenous people in the United States and Russia was renewed by an international whaling body on Tuesday, allowing Native Alaskans to keep hunting bowhead whales for subsistence purposes.
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The future of hunting with dogs in England and Wales could be determined Wednesday when the Court of Appeal rules whether the legislation used to ban it was valid.
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Oct. 15, 2004 - Conservationists claimed victory at a global wildlife trade meeting on Thursday despite warnings that a cash crisis could hamper new hard-won measures to protect endangered species.
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A court in India upholds the sentencing of Bollywood star Salman Khan in a case of poaching.
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ELEANOR HALL: An international conservation group is today launching an unprecedented legal action, alleging that a Japanese whaling company has been killing protected whales inside Australia&#39;s Whale Sanctuary.