Sentences with phrase «in endangered»

• Are hard to wrap (breakables or awkwardly shaped items • Take up too much space (big house wares, furniture) • Can't go in your carry - on due to security restrictions (liqueurs over 3 oz * / 90 mL * in size) • May contravene the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), an international treaty created to crack down on the trafficking of endangered flora and fauna.

He predicts greater interest in indigenous walnut and cherry, less in endangered mahogany and rosewood.

Under the proposed directive, member states would be required to ensure that a range of activities, such as the illegal shipment of waste and unlawful trade in endangered species or in ozone - depleting substances, already prohibited by EU or national legislation are considered criminal offences, when committed intentionally or with serious negligence.

The international trade in endangered species is a lucrative business, with some recent estimates putting its worth at up to $ 20 billion annually, making it one of the most profitable international crimes, behind the illegal drug trade, the illicit arms trade, and human trafficking.

Courthouse News reported yesterday on the FWS proposal to list Hellbenders as endangered, and a related proposal to add the species to Appendix III of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

This debate has been waxing and waning since at least 1989, when the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) voted to «ban» the international trade in ivory after a ferocious wave of poaching in Africa that left hundreds of thousands of elephants butchered.

WWF, the wildlife charity, says the decision by the body which monitors illegal trade in endangered species to close the doors on its discussions over the ivory trade risk harming the body's credibility.

TRAFFIC and the partner organizations that authored the report will present their findings at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), held just before the COP 15.

Ever since 1986, the international trade of whale meat has been banned between countries that signed that year's document produced by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES (CITES was in the news a bunch earlier this year too, but for failing to protect the trade of just about every endangered species imaginable — at least they banned ivory).

A recent report on global trade in endangered species conducted by WWF found that when it comes to elephants, China is «failing on key aspects of compliance or enforcement» — which seems like serious understatement.

Making matters worse, rhinos are among the most endangered species — with many populations facing near extinction.Rhino Horns Are Believed to be Medicine According to The Times, the unusually high number of rhinos being imported to China is the subject of a report to be presented at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, meeting next weekend.

The videos, one showing young slow loris being tickled and another featuring a loris clutching a cocktail umbrella, have received millions of views on YouTube and have become viral sensations but, animal - rights activists say, they hide a grisly truth: International trade in the endangered species that inevitably leads to their death.

I admit it's sort of perverse to say, but mammals and amphibians get all the attention in the endangered species discussion.

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«It will not be [the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species] that is the ruin of professional [fisheries],» he said.

According to Miyahara, Japan feels that the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas - and not the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, referred to as CITES, should be the organization managing bluefin tuna catches.

Armenian environmental activists fighting plans to build a copper mine in an endangered forest got a boost recently when

It's a drop in the bucket compared to the total value of the illicit global trade in wildlife, but WWF's winning a $ 5 million grant from Google is one more small step in eradicating the black market in endangered species.

A ban backed by the United States to ban the international trade of polar bear skins, teeth and claws at the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species has been shot down, due to opposition led by Canada and Norway.

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) voted 68 to 20 with 30 European abstentions.

In 1975, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) was established to oversee the wildlife trade.

At a United Nations - backed conference aimed at regulating international trade in endangered species, the total ban on bluefin tuna fishing and trading was rejected on March 18, 2010.

Ivory destruction ceremonies have been a litmus test for where a country stands on the ivory trade ever since Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi torched 13 tons of ivory in 1989, setting the stage for a vote to ban international trade in ivory by parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

Under CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora), African lions are endangered but not threatened.

Ten things to eat before they die: not you but they — as in endangered foods from speciality and artisanal producers who are trying hard to stay in business.

The Pelly Amendment authorizes the president to impose trade sanctions against another country for «diminishing the effectiveness» of conservation agreements: In Iceland's case, the International Whaling Commission, which bans commercial whaling, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which prohibits international commercial trade in whale products.

Humane Society International participates in international agreements that either directly or indirectly affect animals, including the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and the International Whaling Commission (IWC).

China is seeking approval at the 57th meeting of the standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered species (CITEs), in July 2008, to become a CITEs approved ivory trading nation...

Sadly, even with various protections like the Marine Mammal Protection Act or a listing as «threatened» in the Endangered Species Act, the polar bear still is suffering from various forms of human schizophrenia, ignorance, and greed.

Tuy Sereivathana introduced innovative low - cost solutions to mitigate human - elephant conflict in Cambodia, empowering local communities to cooperatively participate in endangered Asian elephant conservation.

Iceland's fin exports to date are worth an estimated US$ 50 million and clearly undermine both the IWC moratorium and the ban on international commercial trade in fin whale products imposed by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

Their concerns grew even more pressing after the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, did not take action on key groups of corals this March.

Slayed in Iceland: The commercial hunting and international trade in endangered fin whales has been jointly released by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) on the eve of the 65th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Portorož, Slovenia.

«Shipping through the Arctic shouldn't facilitate trafficking in endangered wildlife — it's already dangerous enough.»

In 1994 LaBudde and ESP spearheaded efforts to expose Asia's illegal black market trade in endangered species which resulted in the U.S. implementation of trade sanctions against Taiwan for illegal commerce in rhino horn and tiger bone, and passage of domestic legislation in China, South Korea and Hong Kong to ban the trade.

2010 Prize recipient Tuy Sereivathana, known as «Uncle Elephant,» introduced innovative low - cost solutions to mitigate human - elephant conflict in Cambodia, empowering local communities to cooperatively participate in endangered Asian elephant conservation.

From their paper alone it would appear I exaggerated, but the «doubling» was based on numbers quoted in the petition to place the Emperor in the Endangered species list in which the Center for Bioogical Diversity argued a declining population.

Last October 180 member nations of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) agreed unanimously to close domestic ivory markets where they contribute to illegal trade or poaching.

Carter then overcame political inertia, antagonism and meager resources to continue working on the agreement with legal advisors from United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

Ask the Japanese Prime Minister to stop targeting endangered fin whales, and to refrain from hunting endangered humpback whales, both violations of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES).

In accordance with its obligations under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), Japan agreed to require that all whole ivory tusks imported prior to the 1989 CITES international ivory trade ban and entering trade within Japan be registered with the government.

2013 — We widened the scope of our policy focus by sending a representative who reported back from the CITES (trade in endangered species) negotiations in Bangkok, Thailand.

According to Gendai Inshoh, Aeon cited the 2016 resolution by the parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) as part of the reason for phasing out the trade.

Under an objection to the global moratorium on commercial whaling and a reservation to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) ban on international trade in minke whales, Norway is able to legally hunt and trade minke whales.

These shipments, worth an estimated US $ 17 million, and Iceland's escalating whale hunts, are clear abuse of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) as well as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), to which Iceland is a signatory.

The report also confirms that many of the products are from internationally protected great whale species including fin, sei, minke, sperm and Bryde's whale — all of whom are protected under the moratorium on commercial whaling established by the International Whaling Commission in 1986 and have the highest level of protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.

Part I of the workshop included three «scene - setting» interventions on relevant MEA experiences regarding: the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES); the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs); and the Montreal Protocol.

The International Plan of Action for sharks (IPOA - Sharks), the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), and the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) are the three primary tools for conservation and management of sharks on a global level.

On January 31, 2014, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell certified under section 8 of the Fisherman's Protective Act of 1967 (the «Pelly Amendment»)(22 U.S.C. 1978), that nationals of Iceland are conducting trade in whale meat and products that diminishes the effectiveness of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

The rejection of the listing appears to contradict NOAA's push to ban all international trade of Atlantic bluefin at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species last year.