VILNIUS, Lithuania––The European Food Safety Authority on March 17, 2014 reported that a Lithuanian government plan to fight African swine fever by killing wild boars has little or no chance of success. “No evidence was found in scientific literature proving that wild boar populations can be drastically reduced by hunting or trapping in Europe,” the European […]
Georgia Aquarium appeals NOAA ruling against proposed first beluga whale imports since 1992
ATLANTA––The Georgia Aquarium on September 30, 2013 appealed an August 6, 2013 ruling by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration that it had not satisfied the requirements to import 18 beluga whales from Russia. The appeal put the future of beluga whale exhibition before the U.S. District Court in Atlanta at the same time […]
Russia halts seal hunt
MOSCOW, OTTAWA––Russian minister of natural resources Yury Trutnyev on March 11, 2009 told the world that Russia has halted hunting seals under one year old on the frozen White Sea. “This bloody hunting is from now on banned in our country, as in most developed countries,” Trutnyev told media. Trutnyev described the ban as […]