Australia could launch legal challenge to Japan's 'scientific' whaling hunts

An international law expert says prospects for a legal case against Japan’s whaling program, which is carried out under an International Whaling Commission clause that allows for scientific whaling, have strengthened after the recent IWC meeting in Brazil, and would get even stronger if Japan followed through on its threat to leave the commission.

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... the Australian Government was praised for its diplomatic efforts at last week’s IWC meeting in Brazil, where a proposal by Japan to end the 33-year moratorium on commercial whaling was voted down.

Source: www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/21/australia-could-launch-legal-challenge-to-japans-scie...

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Can the power of cultural mythology help give pangolins more than the ghost of a chance?

"... it was pleasing to read this summer of Zimbabwean chiefs seeking to utilise age-old myths and beliefs about pangolins to help change mindsets and give this shy, unique and increasingly persecuted creature a chance at a future.

"Frankly, the pangolin needs all the help it can get.

"From virtual obscurity just a few years ago, the pangolin has soared to the top of one of the worst charts on the planet – it’s now at number one in the list of most-trafficked mammals ..."

Read today's blog in full at eia-international.org/can-power-cultural-mythology-help-give-pangolins-ghost-chance/

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13 hours ago  ·  

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Indonesia: President signs three-year freeze on new oil palm licenses

The moratorium has been in the works for a long time; President Jokowi first announced it more than two years ago, in the wake of the 2015 Southeast Asian haze crisis.

The moratorium will remain in place for three years. Environmentalists had called for there to be no limit on its duration.

The policy also mandates as sweeping review of oil palm licenses across the country.

Source: news.mongabay.com/2018/09/indonesian-president-signs-3-year-freeze-on-new-oil-palm-licenses/

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1 day ago  ·  

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