Beginning of the end for the Atlantic Canada seal hunt? BRUSSELS––The World Trade Organization on November 25, 2013 upheld most of the 2009 European Union ban on the import of seal products, overturning the ban only when applied to “seal products derived from hunts conducted by Inuit or indigenous communities and hunts conducted for marine […]
Georgia Aquarium appeals NOAA ruling against proposed first beluga whale imports since 1992
Wants to import whales from Russia 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 […]
Dutch to push “vaccination for life” ––may end culls of healthy livestock
May mean a million fewer pigs & cattle per year are raised for slaughter––plus multi-millions of poultry DEN HAAG––Dutch state secretary of economic affairs Sharon A.M. Dijksma on June 4, 2013 committed the Netherlands to trying to reverse European Union and other international policies which require culling livestock who have been exposed to contagious diseases […]
German zoo staff convicted of cruelty for killing hybrid tigers
Director and three employees fined MAGDEBURG, Germany––Magdeburg Zoo director Kai Parret and three members of the zoo staff were on June 17, 2010 convicted of cruelty for killing three tiger cubs at birth in May 2008 because their father was found to be a hybrid of the Siberian and Sumatran tiger subspecies. A fine of […]
Russia halts seal hunt
“This bloody hunting is from now on banned” 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 […]
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