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 Navy can use high-power 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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Australia has vowed to pursue its battle to ban whaling for scientific purposes after Japan cut short this year's whale hunting season in the Antarctic following a fire on its mother ship.
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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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Despite passing a symbolic resolution to overturn a 21-year moratorium on commercial whaling last year, it is unlikely that there will be enough support to formally end it when the International Whaling Commission meets here Monday.
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The US Trade Representative on Monday rejected the European Union&#39;s assertion that its ban on beef from hormone-treated cattle is now justified by science and that US and Canadian retaliatory sanctions should be lifted.
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A U.S. appeals court has put on hold a lower court injunction blocking the U.S. Navy from using a type of sonar that wildlife supporters say harms whales in exercises off the California coast.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - The International Whaling Commission renewed a five-year whaling quota for indigenous people in the United States and Russia on Tuesday, allowing Alaska Natives to continue hunting bowhead whales for subsistence purposes.
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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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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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Australia's Federal Court on Tuesday ordered Japan to stop hunting and killing whales anywhere around its coastline or off Australian Antarctic territory.
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A panel of judges approved the use of high-intensity sonar during military exercises in the Pacific, despite worries about its potentially lethal effect on whales and other marine mammals.
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A UN forum on Thursday approved a landmark nine-year ban on international ivory trade to stem a surge in poaching that has killed up to 20,000 elephants per year.
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The decision to slaughter a bull revered as sacred by his Hindu caretakers is justified, a British court ruled Monday, overturning a decision by a lower court last week.
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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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Pro-whaling countries meet in Japan to plan the lifting of the global moratorium on commercial hunting.
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Japan has confirmed resuming whaling in Antarctic waters after environmental protesters stopped obstructing Japanese whalers there, press reports said Tuesday.