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Wildlife trade convention opens
"Innovative and courageous solutions are required to correct the spiral of species decline," Secretary-General Willem Wijnstekers of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora said Monday in a statement at the start of the conference.
Representatives from the 173 CITES member nations will discuss the quantities of raw ivory stockpiled in four southern African countries that have been approved for export, Wijnstekers said. Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe were authorized last year to make a one-time sale of all government-owned stocks of ivory registered by the end of 2007.
The convention will also focus on tiger farming in Asia. CITES officials decided captive tiger populations should be restricted to numbers that can support wild tiger conservation and tigers should not be bred for trade in their parts, Wijnstekers said. Also on the table will be the level of mahogany exports from the Amazon basis and improvements to the timber verification system, and setting up a multi-national task force to address the illegal trade in rhinoceros horn.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 07/14/2008
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07-16-2008 07:45
John U.K. wrote:
Wildlife trade convention
This is a good thing but I hope they realise that looking at their problems from a perspective within the circle of their own field will prevent them from identifying the best way to tackle those problems. For example, trying to find solutions to correct the spiral of species decline is an issue of capitalism which cannot be solved by instigating rescue programmes, setting up wild-life reserves, etc.; these things serve only as bandaids while the rape of the earth continues around them. They can even have the adverse effect of inducing the sense that what can be done *is* being done, enabling the exploiters of earth's resources to turn a blind eye to the full extent of their actions.
The members of this convention would do more good if they broadened their scope and fought to unify all environmental groups into a POLITICAL PARTY through which they can exercise real power to set things to rights.
The members of this convention would do more good if they broadened their scope and fought to unify all environmental groups into a POLITICAL PARTY through which they can exercise real power to set things to rights.
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