71% in favor OLYMPIA––Washington state voters on November 3, 2015 overwhelmingly approved Initiative Measure 1401, introducing state-level felony penalties for the purchase, sale, and/or distribution of products made from elephants, rhinos, lions, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, sea turtles, pangolins, sharks and rays. At least 50 individuals have reportedly been apprehended in possession with such contraband […]
U.S. consumer demand helps push pangolins toward extinction
WASHINGTON D.C.––The Humane Society of the United States, Humane Society International, International Fund for Animal Welfare, Born Free USA, and the Center for Biological Diversity on July 15, 2015 petitioned the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to list pangolins as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The action came three months after Microsoft founder Paul […]