Shark fin hunters driving species into extinction
The conference of the parties to the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of flora and fauna is being asked to put a number of sharks on their protected list. Thresher sharks in the Pacific is one of them, the world’s largest wildlife conservation conference now underway in Sandton hears. They’re being killed […]
Pangolins moved into CITES maximum security zone
Animal rights activists will today get the maximum security they want from the UN body safeguarding endangered species for pangolins around the world. The Convention on the Sale of Wildlife of Endangered Species meeting in Sandton voted to move the four species of Asian pangolins into its most protected status. They will place the four […]
CITES votes to give extrude help to save helmeted hornbill from extinction
The conference of the parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna has agreed to taking additional measure to save a unique hornbill from extinction, The Asian helmeted hornbill has a unique feature that makes it particularly attractive to poachers. The helmeted hornbill, about as large as the trumpeter […]