Sharks defeated at U.N. wildlife trade talks
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A United Nations forum on endangered species rejected bids on Friday to put in place controls on the multi-million dollar trade in two types of sharks, highly prized for their meat and fins.
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Sharks killed four people and bit 58  others around the world in 2006, a comparatively dull year for  dangerous encounters between the two species, scientists said  in their annual shark attack census on Tuesday.
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Science & environment: Cosmetic companies stop using shark liver oil amid concerns over survival of deep-sea predators
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Fishing nations led by Iceland and Russia have blocked U.N. negotiators from imposing a full-fledged ban against destructive bottom trawling on the high seas. After weeks of talks in New York, a United Nations committee that oversees high seas fisheries failed to gain unanimous support this week for ending unregulated bottom trawling.
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Japan's efforts to have restrictions lifted on the trade in whalemeat are rebuffed at an international meeting.
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A leading environmental group called Friday for protection for the great white shark and humphead wrasse coral fish, whose numbers have plunged because of overfishing and China's growing appetite for exotic foods.
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5 October 2004 - Law enforcement experts are urging stronger action against poachers or smugglers of endangered species, but warn that many countries lack the ability to fight wildlife crimes, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said today.
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THE great white shark, one of the world&#39;s most feared creatures, found itself some unexpected friends yesterday when a United Nations conference issued a surprise vote to restrict its international trade.
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Greater protection to great white sharks and other big fish are among successes to emerge from the world species summit.
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GRANTS PASS -- A petition from environmentalists to put four species of lamprey -- jawless fish resembling eels that swim with salmon -- under protection of the Endangered Species Act has been rejected again by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Wildlife conservationists are expected to push for new trade restrictions to protect fast-disappearing animals and plants, while lobbyists try to liberate trade in some species at international talks starting today in Bangkok, Thailand.
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The United States will join with Australia and Madagascar in arguing that great white sharks need to be protected through new global trade restrictions.
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The world&#39;s &#39;flagship species&#39; on land and sea, whales and elephants, won a reprieve on Tuesday from commercial exploitation at a major conservation conference in Thailand&#39;s capital.
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Pro-whaling nations, led by Japan, lost the first major vote of the International Whaling Commission&#039;s annual meeting Friday &amp;#151; an indication they may not have the majority necessary to take control of the body and try to repeal its ban on commercial hunting.
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Oct. 15, 2004 - Conservationists claimed victory at a global wildlife trade meeting on Thursday despite warnings that a cash crisis could hamper new hard-won measures to protect endangered species.
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An unprecedented voting boycott of a resolution on Japan&#39;s &quot;lethal&quot; whale hunts marred talks Wednesday of the International Whaling Commission and intensified rifts in the 75-nation group.
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Anti-whaling nations reeled off their third straight victory over pro-whaling Japan, as insults flew and tempers frayed at annual world whaling talks.