CITES forbids commercial trade in rare dolphin
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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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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.
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A rare reef fish called the humphead wrasse should be guarded from the trade that is threatening its future, conservationists say.
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2nd Ld-Writethru: Search for rare white-flag dolphins will still continue: scientists    WUHAN, Dec.
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A bird at the center of a controversy that impacts the nation&#39;s multibillion-dollar energy industry should not be included on the endangered species list, a panel of federal wildlife officials has concluded.
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Christmas gift buyers should avoid coral jewelry, crocodile skin and Beluga caviar if they want to enjoy a guilt-free holiday season, the nature protection group WWF said on Tuesday.
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BANGKOK: The global treaty regulating trade in threatened wildlife moved to protect ramin, the Asian hardwood whose forests and their inhabitants have been devastated by rampant commercial logging.
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Wildlife conservationists are expected to push for new trade restrictions to protect fast-disappearing animals and plants, while lobbyists try to free up commerce in some species at international talks starting yesterday in Bangkok.
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European Union ministers have decided to disregard proposals to declare huge swathes of ocean off-limits for trawlers if viable alternatives could be worked out to safeguard such threatened fish as the once-common cod.
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Limited amounts of the world's most prized caviar will be allowed back on cocktail tables this year after the UN's watchdog on endangered species on Monday lifted a ban on international trade.
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The baiji, a rare, nearly blind white dolphin that survived for 20 million years, is effectively extinct, an international expedition declared after ending a fruitless search of its Yangtze River habitat.
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THE HAGUE -- The world's oversight body on wildlife trade refused yesterday to defend two sharks from over-exploitation for a range of food, from supermarket fish-and-chips to gourmet shark fin soup.
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Why trawl through a sweaty illegal wildlife market in Asia when you can shop for rare animals and exotic plants on the Internet?
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'Reduced reproduction' threatens stocks The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has called for a ban on fishing for North Sea cod, The BBC reports.â¦
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A special meeting of the global whaling body called by Japan  is boycotted by most anti-whaling nations.
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A rare, nearly blind white dolphin that survived for millions of years is effectively extinct, an international expedition declared Wednesday after ending a fruitless six-week search of its Yangtze River habitat.
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BEIJING -- A species of rare, nearly blind white dolphins that survived for millions of years is effectively extinct, an international expedition said yesterday after ending a fruitless six-week search of its Yangtze River habitat.