| Action plan to crack down on domestic ivory markets
in Africa needs major boost |
| Eight months after African countries announced a continent-wide
action plan to crack down on their domestic ivory markets – the single
most important factor in the international ivory trade – unregulated
markets continue trading ivory openly throughout Africa, according
to new surveys by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network.
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| WWF
Newsroom |
| "Living fossil" faces extinction |
| The number of Xinjiang Salamander, an endangered amphibian
native to Xinjiang, decreased by a quarter to 3,000 in the past four
years, according to statistics from local experts. |
| Xinhuanet |
| China mulls smog tax for big cars, report says |
| China is considering imposing new taxes on buyers of
big cars to persuade drivers to buy environmentally friendly vehicles,
a news report said Monday. |
| Environmental
News Network |
| Scientists studying Gulf's 'dead zone' |
| Through mid-July, scientists from NOAA's National Coast
Data Development Center and the agency's Fisheries Service at Stennis
Space Center will look at data about dissolved oxygen from the "dead
zone" areas in the Gulf of Mexico. |
| Environmental
News Network |
| Wildlife smuggling only second to drugs on U.S.-Mexico
border |
| When it comes to smuggling animals across the U.S.-Mexico
border, U.S. Wildlife Inspector Ed Marshall has seen it all. |
| CNN.com
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