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...sale of furs from 14 endangered species, has caused consternation in the skin trade. Some manufacturers have challenged the new law in court. Retailers, particularly in New York City, have slashed prices on spotted furs in order to liquidate stocks. Ben Kahn, for example, is selling $12,000 leopard coats for $6,000 and $6,000 cheetah coats...
...some conservationists fear that poachers will continue to slaughter the big cats, since the skins can be sold in other countries. Now this avenue appears to be closing too. The International Fur Trade Federation, a London-based union, has announced an embargo on otter, tiger and snow and clouded leopard skins...
When embattled Cambodia began casting around for a savior, Thailand, the pro-Western "Land of Smiles," seemed ideally cast. The Thai government, a military regime with parliamentary trappings, had sent its 11,000-man Black Leopard Division to South Viet Nam on a similar mission. General Praphas Charusathien, the country's Vice Premier and army chief, was forever saying: "It is better to fight Communists outside Thailand than at home." Cambodia, whose border is just a three-hour drive from Bangkok, seemed a likely place...
...have denuded vegetation, thus driving away the deer upon which the lions feed. For another, some Hindu untouchables have no scruples about eating meat and regularly chase the lions away from kills to appropriate the meat for themselves. Also vanishing: India's blackbuck antelope, sloth bear and snow leopard...
Last week Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed two bills banning the sale of certain rare furs and hides in New York State. Manhattan Furrier Jacques Kaplan is keeping in step with public sentiment by showing mink furs treated to look like tiger and leopard skins in his fall collection. On the other hand, worried about the country's new environmental awareness, David Klapisch, vice president of Southern Trading Corp. (reptiles), complains that "conservation is good, but there has to be a limit...