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Three held with leopard skins:
Three people were arrested with leopard skins and bones in Dehradun in Uttarakhand, an official said Wednesday.
In a joint operation of the Uttarakhand Forest Department and the Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI), three leopard skins were seized from Vikasnagar and Kalsi area of Dehradun.
'Bullet holes were found on the skins. It is believed the animals were killed in the nearby forests of Vikasnagar and Kalsi,' a WPSI official said in New Delhi.
Forest officials are looking for a poacher who allegedly shot the animals.
The number of leopards is dwindling fast. In 2008, there were about 12,000 leopards in India.
http://sify.com/news/three-held-with-leopard-skins-news-national-khhtaeigfca.html
Unfair trade: A week in the world of illegal wildlife trafficking
Illegal trade in endangered species continues to grow around the world. How big is the problem? Here are 10 major cases that have hit the media in just the past week:
Six pallets containing 765 kilograms of elephant tusks worth an estimated $1.2 million were seized in Thailand July 13. The shipment contained 117 tusks, plus a single rhino horn. Thai customs blocked an earlier shipment of tusks weighing 1,260 kilograms back in April.
More than 2,000 frozen pangolins were recently seized from a single fishing vessel in China, the wildlife trade group TRAFFIC International announced last week. The shipment contained 7,800 kilograms of the toothless, scaled mammals, which were frozen, along with 1,800 kilograms of pangolin scales. Two of the four pangolin species are endangered, and trade in all four is banned by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=unfair-trade-a-week-in-the-world-of-2010-07-20
BFAR, NGO ask DOJ to reverse decision on 9 Chinese poachers
THE Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (Bfar) and nongovernment organization (NGO) Pampano urged the Department of Justice (DOJ) to reverse a resolution issued by former Justice Secretary Alberto Agra which allowed the dropping of a poaching case in Philippine waters against nine Chinese nationals.
Malcolm I. Sarmiento Jr., BFAR director, said his agency and the Palawan Council for Sustainable Development Staff (PCSDS) have filed a motion for reconsideration at the DOJ to set aside the earlier ruling of the former DOJ chief.
“The DOJ decision might be used by future violators as a dangerous precedent,” said Sarmiento in a statement.
The nine Chinese nationals were caught fishing and in possession of endangered marine turtles when they were apprehended sometime in May off Balabac Island in Palawan by a BFAR patrol vessel jointly operated by BFAR, law enforcement personnel, and the Philippine Coast Guard.
http://businessmirror.com.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27962:bfar-ngo-ask-doj-to-reverse-decision-on-9-chinese-poachers&catid=53:agri-commodities
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