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...boasted that it flies to the cities themselves, while Ryanair flies to obscure towns that are hours outside the cities. "Who loves flying you to the place you actually booked?" a banner message at the top of the ad asks. Ryanair quickly asked the Advertising Standards Authority to ban the ads on the grounds they are misleading and denigrating. The advertising watchdog ruled in Ryanair's favor this month. (It's a tad ironic considering Ryanair has had a number of run-ins with the ASA over the years and once referred to the body as "Absolutely Stupid...
...list of endangered species, it looked as if a majority of countries might agree to prohibit international trade of the fish. But at Thursday's meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Doha, Qatar, member states voted 72 to 43 against such a ban...
...inter-governmental regulatory body that oversees the world's annual tuna catch, failed last year to follow the recommendations of its own scientists and drastically reduce quotas for the fish, the tiny principality of Monaco drafted a proposal to include the fish on CITES Appendix 1. The appendix, which bans trade in endangered species, has - with the exception of certain whales and dolphins - historically excluded marine life, and Japan, which consumes about 80% of the 60,000 tons of bluefin caught each year, promised to vote against any ban. But momentum in favor of Monaco's proposal appeared...
...Voting was conducted by secret ballot, but several other nations spoke against the ban, including Venezuela, Korea, Morocco and Turkey. Like Libya, the latter nation has been accused by environmental groups like Greenpeace of illegal fishing and routinely ignoring ICCAT quotas. "There's a reason why this initiative was so crucial," says Sant. "ICCAT has made a lot of promises about improving its scientific management of the fishery and better enforcing its own regulations, but they really haven't come through, and the tuna population continues to be extremely low." (Watch TIME's video "The Trouble with Tuna...
...Garat points out that had the CITES measure passed, Japan would have taken a reservation, opting out of the ban. Other countries would still be prohibited from trading with Japan, but with those $50-per-kilo ticket prices, less scrupulous nations might have been enticed into breaking the agreement. "It would have only increased the black market, and the countries that would have been most hurt by it would be the ones following the law - which is to say the European Union," Garat adds. (See "Hunting for Tuna: The Environmental Peril Grows...