Word: bans
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...that wealth. So when the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) assembles for its biennial meeting this week in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, delegates from around the world will be asked to consider taking the highly controversial step of lifting the seven-year-old ban...
...reason, says Marshall Jones, assistant director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and a leader of the U.S. delegation to the conference, is that "the ivory ban is one of the best, most effective measures CITES has ever undertaken." During the 1980s, when poachers killed an average of 200 African elephants a day for their tusks, the population plummeted to an estimated 625,000, down from 1.3 million in 1979. Since the ban went into effect, the population has fallen only slightly...
...ban that has made all the difference, say conservationists and government officials. There isn't much point in poaching because contraband ivory is so difficult--and dangerous--to sell. If the market were opened up, though, the situation could change overnight. Says Dave Currey, director of the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency: "Even a partial relaxation would send a message to poachers that ivory trade is back." Indeed, the message may already be out. David Barritt, African director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, reports that elephant poachers recently arrested in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, said they...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: With a perfunctory nod to the wonders of scientific exploration, President Clinton stuck to his guns, announcing that he would continue the moratorium on federal funding for research into human cloning, while pushing for a legislative ban. That's the advice of his National Biothics Advisory Commission, which keeping the federal ban in place while discouraging (but not making illegal) private research on human embryos. OK, but few scientists are seriously pushing for cloning humans. The hard part? Determining just how far the research on human embryos should go. After all, a lot of folks passionately believe that...
...result, the Inter-Club Council agreed in a July meeting to ban kegs in the clubs, to limit each club member to two guests at any time except parties, to require members to register visitors and to hold members responsible for the behavior and safety of their visitors...