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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carvers -- about 3,000 people in all -- are already suffering from the U.S., European and Japanese bans. Kwong Fat Cheung Ivory once employed 100 carvers. Now there are five, all old men, who at night can be found sitting around a table eating a silent dinner of silvery fish, cabbage and egg. Behind them is a wall of ivory tusks in burlap sacks that were destined for Taiwan until that country declared a ban in August. "There is nothing to give them to do," says Eddie Huen, one of five brothers who run the business started by their father. "They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elephants: Trail of Shame | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

Donald Duck should be thankful he is a Disney cartoon character and not a real bird at Walt Disney World's Discovery Island zoological park. After a two- month investigation by the Florida game and freshwater fish commission, the state attorney's office and the Federal Government have filed suit against the company and five employees for alleged cruelty to animals. Among the charges: firing rifles at hawks, beating vultures to death with sticks, and disturbing the nests and eggs of egrets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida: Cruelty in the Magic Kingdom | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

...inviting 10 or more people to my house for dinner, would you recommend a dry red wine with a grilled fish Marsailles...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Leave it to Davis to Shake up the NFL | 10/5/1989 | See Source »

Pretty idealistic for a bunch of sardines, thinking their presence in Washington will convince anyone worth convincing. There will be so many of them, though: fin to fin as far as the eye can see. It'll be enough to make anyone take notice--maybe even the Big Fish himself...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: Sardines on Washington | 10/5/1989 | See Source »

...announced that it would sharply curtail one of its most controversial practices: the use of drift nets. These enormous expanses of nylon mesh, which fan out for miles behind trawlers, are generally intended to catch squid and tuna, but they also indiscriminately trap and kill large numbers of other fish, seabirds, porpoises and other marine mammals. Japanese officials said they would reduce the drift-net fleet in the South Pacific to 20 ships, the same number that worked the area in the 1987-88 season. This season the fleet had grown to at least 60 boats. The restrictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: About-Face | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

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