Trafficking in endangered species

Phil Borges on endangered cultures

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Siberian tigers are currently classified as endangered (EN) by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) Red List of Endangered Species.

It is saving the tigers.

The guar is an endangered Southeast Asian ungulate.

The publication offers a full description of the threats, current conservation efforts and additional protection needed for each species across its entire range

And we decided that what we want to store first of all, are the species that are most under threat.

Newspapers are dying for a few reasons.

They're now listed as vulnerable under the IUCN.

But despite this amazing longevity, they're now considered critically endangered.

These are two creatures that were created in order to save endangered species.

These fish have been proposed for an endangered species listing in the past two months.

Jacek Utko designs to save newspapers

In addition, we've started to use cloning technology to try to save endangered species.

The findings suggest that endangered spots include the Po delta and the Venice lagoon.

Airborne video and thermal infrared scanner imagery were used to map river habitat for endangered fish in the Colorado River system, enabling managers to release water from reservoirs in such a way as to maximize survival of the endangered species.

Murdering elephants, tigers and other endangered species is not just cruel it's also illegal.

While the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora is a critical component of controlling some species of endangered timber, it is not feasible to extend its ambit to cover the whole illegal logging industry.

St. Helena has an environmental conservation programme aimed at preserving endangered species and the diversity of habitats, which are an important part of the Territory's heritage and could potentially increase tourism.

Who can say what it is that makes a man die?

Same thing happened with the mouflon, where it's an endangered species of sheep.

Two radio feature programmes on endangered languages, produced in English and Spanish

UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage Unit's Ad Hoc Expert Group on Endangered Languages (UNESCO 2003a UNESCO 2003b, c) uses this more pessimistic figure in their report, Language Vitality and Endangerment (http portal.unesco.org culture en file_download.php 1a41d53cf46e10710298d314450b97dfLanguage Vitality.doc).

The secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora, however, has.

Although it was recognized that States had sovereign rights over their own biological and genetic resources, there was a call for international cooperation and implementation of the relevant international instruments, such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and the Convention on Biological Diversity.

And environment changed from just being about trees and birds and endangered species to being about how we treated each other.

At the rate he's going...

FRANK Facing bankruptcy.

Although parties to the Convention are obliged to adjust their national legislation in order to criminalize the illegal trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora, not all of them have established the appropriate legal framework to comply with that obligation.

With respect to point (i), UNCTAD has been actively collaborating with the CBD and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

Some are actually on the brink of extinction.

Endangered whales are killed every year by ship collision, and it's very important to try to reduce this.

In that hospice, there were 31 men and women who were actively dying.

Activities include national training seminars for agents charged with wildlife conservation and control, the production of a practical manual for the identification of regional species, and the revision of national conservation legislation with a view to ameliorating the implementation of the country apos s obligations under the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

UNEP emphasizes that logging has an enormous environmental impact, destroying the habitats of many endangered species.

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The colorized area shows the risk of collision for endangered right whales because of the ships moving in this lane.

Reports have documented that longline fishing is one of the main threats to the survival of the highly endangered Black footed albatross in the Pacific.

The Serb population is at stake, whose human rights and basic security have already been seriously threatened, especially after the outbreak of ethnically motivated violence in March 2004.

The World Conservation Union lists 40 per cent of St. Helena's plants as endangered, while other conservationists insist that the actual proportion is higher.

After UNCTAD XI, a joint programme was developed with CITES which will be implemented from early 2005 onwards.

Thus, the secretariats of CITES and the Basel Convention have been providing technical assistance, but the levels of funding have been low.Projects requiring a limited amount of funding have nevertheless been very successful.

It shows a U.S. soldier laughing at people dying.

This is in part the result of haphazard reporting by States to the secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.