Entries Categorized as 'Wildlife Trade'

Clownfish Catfight

Date May 8, 2013

What happens when a pair of female anemonefish meet?

Thought coral reefs were the "rainforests of the sea"?

Date October 9, 2009

Well, if you were at Siti M Yaakub’s talk about sea grasses this evening, you would’ve heard something else! Turns out sea grass beds are worth about ten times more to the global economy than rain forests! Siti’s enthusiastic presentation made learning about seagrasses fun and fascinating! With the simple diagram above (which Siti claims […]

Shark Fins Dealer Pleads Guilty to Illegally Dealing in Fins From Protected Species

Date June 17, 2009

Mark L. Harrison, a resident of Southport, Fla., and Harrison International LLC, a Florida corporation, today pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Atlanta to violating the Lacey Act, a federal fish and wildlife trafficking law, by dealing in shark fins, the landing of which was not reported as required by law, the Justice Department […]

Paper protection not enough for Vietnam's marine turtles

Date May 27, 2009

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — Marine turtles are vanishing from Vietnam’s waters and illegal trade is largely to blame says a new study by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network. An assessment of the marine turtle trade in Vietnam, launched to mark World Turtle Day found that large marine turtles are now virtually absent from Viet […]