12/05/2013
Nairobi – Populations of elephants in Africa continue to be under severe threat as the illegal trade in ivory grows – with double the numbers of elephants killed and triple the amounts of ivory seized, over the last decade, according to the United Nations*.
African elephants | Photo credit: Ikiwaner | Wikimedia Commons.
According to a new report entitled “Elephants in the Dust – The African Elephant Crisis”, increasing poaching levels, as well as loss of habitat are threatening the survival of African elephant populations in Central Africa as well as previously secure populations in West, Southern and Eastern Africa.
The report says that systematic monitoring of large-scale seizures of ivory destined for Asia is indicative of the involvement of criminal networks, which are increasingly active and entrenched in the trafficking of ivory between Africa and Asia.
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12/05/2013
By Nick Nuttal*, UNEP – In the 1950s and 1970s, the United Kingdom and Iceland were involved in the famous cod wars—a dispute over fishing rights. Today it is the tomato at the centre of attention—at least in Brazil—as prices last month soared 150 per cent in part due to food wastage of this essential and popular fruit.
Photo credit: Pluma | Wikimedia Common.
Clever cartoons and tongue-in-cheek photos on the “Tomatoes are very expensive” Facebook page cast them as a luxury, Brazil’s newest status symbol. “Five star meal,” reads the caption above a photo of a simple everday lunch of meat, rice and salad, crowned by two skimpy tomato slices.
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12/05/2013
As an estimated 50 billion birds commence their annual migrations, the critical staging areas they need to complete these journeys continue to be degraded or are disappearing completely, the United Nations today warned on this year’s World Migratory Bird Day on 11 May 2013*.
White Pelican. Photo: UNEP/AEWA/Sergey Dereliev
In his message marking the Day, celebrated each year in over 65 countries on 11 and 12 May, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon underscored the need for greater international action in protecting the winged fauna and saving their natural habitats.
With the stepping stones to their migration under increased pressure, some bird species could face extinction within a decade.
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