#Act4 Wildlife WCS EU has issued the following statement from Arnaud Goessens, EU Policy Manager Belgian senate calls for stricter EU regulation on ivory trade 22 February 2019
#Act4 Wildlife Iceland has announced it may kill more than 2,000 whales over the next five years, despite a declining market for whale meat and a growing sentiment against whaling among the Nordic country’s own citizens. Iceland says it may kill 2,000 whales in next five years 22 February 2019
#Act4 Wildlife Canada has passed the halfway mark in prohibiting the trade of shark fins with Member of Parliament Fin Donnelly tabling Bill S-238, the Ban on Shark Fin Trade Act, into the House of Commons. Bill to end trade of shark fins gains momentum in Canada’s House of Commons 22 February 2019
#Act4 Wildlife Spring is arriving early with swallows, frogspawn and unexpected perfume as temperatures soar up to 20C above this time last year when Britain was blasted by the “beast from the east”. UK naturalists concerned for early-emerging spring species 22 February 2019
#Act4 Wildlife Animal traffickers are peddling jaguar cubs in the UAE on Instagram. UAE journalists posing as buyers reveal jaguar cubs for sale on Instagram 21 February 2019
#Act4 Wildlife The orchestrated killing of hippos in Zambia will begin in May, state officials said, over objections from a key animal rights group. A long-disputed hippo cull will begin in May in Zambia, officials say 21 February 2019
#Act4 Wildlife It argued, in particular, that the working group did not include a sufficient number of experts on the alternatives to non-human primates in research. Ombudsman concludes no maladministration in selection of experts to evaluate the need for non-human primates in research 18 February 2019
#Act4 Wildlife For this reason, today we have written to the Minister so that indignation turns into concrete changes. Urging concrete actions on pig breeding regulations 15 February 2019 LAV
#Act4 Wildlife Animal rights activists have launched an unprecedented legal challenge to the slaughter of dolphins in Japan, claiming that fishermen are routinely violating animal welfare laws and exceeding government-set quotas. Taiji dolphin hunt: activists to launch unprecedented legal challenge that dolphins are wrongly classified as fish 13 February 2019
#Act4 Wildlife One of the world’s most densely populated cities, Hong Kong, is facing a proliferation of wild boars as the large mammals stray increasingly into built-up areas. Hong Kong debates wild boar problem as Chinese New Year of the Pig dawns 13 February 2019
#Act4 Wildlife Los Angeles is stepping up for animal rights. Los Angeles becomes biggest U.S. city to ban fur 12 February 2019
#Act4 Wildlife It is the worst kind of wildlife abuse, and it is happening right now – again – in Zimbabwe, where 35 baby elephants have been torn away from their mothers in the wild and are awaiting export to zoos in China. Zimbabwe rips 35 baby elephants from their mothers for export to Chinese zoos 12 February 2019