There are times of spectacular policy myopia – and promoting a revision to the Meat Safety Act by the South African government is surely one of these moments.
Stop the wildlife trade: Illegal ivory trafficking shifts to Cambodia after crackdown in China
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Ivory trafficking has shifted to Cambodia after a crackdown on the illegal trade in China and neighbouring countries, according to a new report.
Pangolin scales have been removed from an official 2020 listing of ingredients approved for use in traditional Chinese medicine in a move lauded by animal protection groups as a key step in stamping out trade in the scaly anteater, the world’s most trafficked mammal.
Zoology has an illustrious history; it has triggered paradigm shifts in thinking.
The illegal wildlife trade is one of the highest value illicit trade sectors globally, threatening both human well-being and biodiversity. A prominent example is ivory poaching, leading to an estimated 30% decline in African elephant populations between 2007 and 2014 and costing African states an estimated US$25 million annually in lost tourism revenues.
The EU is trading in dead tigers
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In a ramshackle barn somewhere in rural Vietnam, a balding chicken stumbles over a giant heap of chalky tiger bones.
- As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic there is heightened public interest in the risk factors that lead to such events.
- South Africa traffics thousands of endangered wild animals to China in ‘corrupt and growing’ trade, investigation finds
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- Exploitation changes leopard behaviour with long-term genetic costs
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- Biodiversity is in rapid decline, across the UK and globally. Butterflies are excellent for helping us understand these changes.Where butterfly communities are rich and diverse, so too is the ecosystem. But the opposite is also true: if butterfly numbers are low and there are few species, it is a bad sign for the overall variety and abundance of life in the area.
- Agriculture looks different around the world because of climate, soil, landscape, technology, and cultural practices. Based on farming systems and geography, the world is divided into several major agricultural regions.Subsistence farming is common across parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Here farmers use traditional methods to grow food mainly for their own families.
- We would like to offer potential buyers the opportunity to acquire one of the following Exclusive farms. Due to the Brands and Clientele involved the confidentiality of all information will be handled with the utmost discretion. A recent partnership with industry experts allows us to offer these farms to international buyers, the farms concerned will never be available on the open market.
- More research and creative ideas are needed to save the sorghum industry in South Africa .The main challenge is insufficient domestic demand for sorghum, which has caused production to decline by more than half since the 1990/91 season. There was optimism in 2014 linked to potential biofuel opportunities, but plans for processing plants fell through and government incentives were lacking.
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