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Demand for tiger body parts used in traditional Chinese medicine and habitat fragmentation from unsustainable regional infrastructure development have driven the decline of the region’s Indochinese tiger population.
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WWF hails the efforts of a recent worldwide Interpol operation to curb the illegal trade in traditional medicines containing endangered animal and plant species.
‘Given that this crosses many borders, co-ordinating effective efforts to tackle the illegal trade in wildlife is not easy,’ said WWF-UK’s wildilfe trade advisor, Heather Sohl. “It’s great to see 18 countries all working simultaneously to investigate and curtail the trade in traditional medicines containing threatened species. This can be a blueprint for future action on other areas of illicit wildlife trade too.’ [...]
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Amsterdam, International — Greenpeace today called for a proposal by a working group of the International Whaling Commission that would allow the return of commercial whaling to be rejected out of hand, describing it as a dangerous throwback to the 20th century when whales where hunted to near extinction.
“The proposal rewards Japan for decades of reprehensible behaviour at the International Whaling Commission and in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary,” said John Frizell, Head of the Greenpeace Whales Campaign. “We are at a critical junction for both whaling and ocean conservation. A return to commercial whaling would not only be a disaster for whales but will send shock waves through international ocean conservation efforts, making it vastly more difficult to protect other rapidly-declining species such as tuna and sharks.” [...]
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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., February 17, 2010 – Sustainable Life Media today introduced the first round of speakers for Sustainable Brands 2010, featuring leaders from the consumer, technology, food and apparel industries. This year’s theme, “The Power of And,” is presented as an essential business approach for tackling the polarities and dualities facing business today. “And” is recommended as a new way for addressing what may be seen as the ongoing, chronic issues that are often described as unavoidable, unsolvable and indestructible. Sustainable Brands 2010 will give attendees the tools and skills to distinguish between a problem to solve and a polarity to leverage. Speakers and session leaders will share how to look within complex issues, identify opposites in tension and capitalize on that tension to establish solutions that address some of the most pressing problems — and exhilarating opportunities — facing business today. [...]
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“More and more utilities are beginning to realize that building large power plants just to handle peak daily and seasonal demand is a very costly way of managing an electricity system,” says Lester R. Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute, in a recent release, “Smarter Grids, Appliances, and Consumers.” “Existing electricity grids are typically a patchwork of local grids that are simultaneously inefficient, wasteful, and dysfunctional in that they often are unable, for example, to move electricity surpluses to areas of shortages. The U.S. electricity grid today resembles the roads and highways of the mid-twentieth century before the interstate highway system was built. What is needed today is the electricity equivalent of the interstate highway system.” [...]
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