Forest elephants at risk from the illegal ivory trade
...conservationists fear that legalizing even limited trade in ivory from southern African elephants will plac...agement resources are scarce. Legalizing the ivory trade based on the recovery of savannah elephants will only accelerate the forest elephants' decline, unle......distant bushmeat markets. A booming illegal ivory trade to nations such as China is driving poaching in th.... The authors further warn that the illegal ivory trade must be brought under control in elephant range-states, transit countries and destination nations. ...AEA, UAlbany College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering to partner on CIRCA 07
(Albany) -- AeA, the nation's largest high-tech trade association, and the College of Nanoscale Science ...to partner with AeA, the leading global technology trade organization, in this important event. Through this partnership, CIRCA '07 will formulate and refine...Migratory birds: Innocent scapegoats for the dispersal of the H5N1 virus
...th-east Asia until 2004, via the legal and illegal trade in poultry. The cases in western Europe in February 2006 after a cold spell on the Black Sea showed that virus can spread through infected wild birds travelling short distances, but no evidence for long distance transmission during seasonal migrat...20 of world's 162 grouper species threatened with extinction
...sis of the multimillion-dollar live reef food fish trade based in Hong Kong and comprise one of the most va... by uncontrolled fishing. Increasing international trade to meet an insatiable demand for grouper poses a particularly major threat. The workshop outcome s...Darwin's famous finches and Venter's marine microbes
... ). The authors are plying the rapidly emerging trade of metagenomics (also known as environmental genomics) that seeks to examine genomic snapshots taken directly from the environment. "Metagenomics allows us to sample the 99 percent of all bacteria that wont grow in the lab," explains Manning. "GOS...Smithsonian study concludes Caribbean extinctions occurred 2M years after apparent cause
..., nutrient-rich water pumped to the surface by the trade winds from December to April," said Jeremy Jackson, professor at Scripps and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute emeritus. "Corals and algae are more common in the more nutrient-poor, warmer waters on the Caribbean side." Several approaches we...Lifting Chinese tiger trade ban a death sentence for wild tigers say WWF and TRAFFIC
...day by World Wildlife Fund and TRAFFICthe wildlife trade monitoring program of WWF and IUCN. The report ...se business owners who would profit from the tiger trade are putting increasing pressure on the Chinese government to overturn its successful 1993 ban and al...Scientist converts UK nuclear energy policy
...t should happen to the global conventional weapons trade in clear and convincing fashion," says Goldring. Turn back the Doomsday Clock Internist Laura Kahn of Princeton University proposes in "The Zoonotic Connection" more research and training grants for veterinarians to study pathophysiologic process...Human pubic lice acquired from gorillas gives evolutionary clues
...even today among modern humans there's a bush meat trade where gorillas are killed for their meat," he said. "If archaic humans were butchering or scavenging those animals 3.3 million years ago, it would be a simple thing to transfer those lice from prey to predator." Because humans and gorillas are so c...New report: Explosive growth changes salmon industry
...d Farmed Salmon, released by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network of World Wildlife Fund and IUCN...se changes have raised economic, environmental and trade questions. For example, how does wild salmon, which no longer provides the bulk of North America's s...UN, industry, others partner to create world standards for e-scrap recycling, harvesting components
...andards and guidelines. OECD figures show global trade of information and communication technologies (ICT) amounted to 1.33 trillion in 2004, 7.7 per cent of gross world product. Trade of ICT goods accounts for roughly 4 per cent of America's GDP, and 5 per cent and 7 per cent, respectively, of Japan's a...Irish potato famine disease came from South America
..., Ristaino has also delved in shipping records and trade patterns. South American countries mainly Peru provided potatoes and potato seed to North American, Central American, European and Irish locales throughout the 19th century. In fact, Ristaino says, dry rot disease stymied potato production some yea...African carnage -- 1 year's seized ivory likely came from 23,000 elephants
...ed since an international convention banning ivory trade took effect in 1989, a University of Washington bi...ent efforts that all but halted black-market ivory trade in the four years immediately after the ban was enacted, said Samuel Wasser, director of the UW Cent...Protecting US crops from terrorist attack to be discussed at 2007 AAAS Annual Meeting
...production costs and food prices, lost markets and trade embargoes, financial instability of rural communities, and loss of public confidence in the food supply," she said. Fletcher's presentation will focus on the need for both prevention, including border inspections and crop surveillance, and prepare...Smithsonian scientists report ancient chili pepper history
... gain incredible insight into ancient agriculture, trade and cuisine by making these plants visible nearly everywhere they occurred." Cultivated chili starch grains are discernible from those of wild chilies. The remains of these domesticated chili peppers were often found with corn, forming part of a ...Smithsonian receives $8M HSBC grant
...The Canal supports a large amount of international trade and therefore is vital to international commerce."......ir food purchases, preferring to buy organic, fair trade or locally sourced food. But the story was different for the one-off decisions they made to buy domestic appliances and other household electrical goods. For all but the greenest group of consumers, the environmental performance of a one-off majo...Risk of extinction accelerated due to interacting human threats
...eing overexploited to satisfy food demands and the trade of ornamental species. They are also harmed by blast fishing, coastal development and pollution, all of which directly or indirectly kill the corals and leave them vulnerable to erosion and loss of their complex matrix. Habitat loss is also occurring...