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Recent efforts to resolve an impasse at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) have come up very short.  The proposed compromise released recently by the IWC fails to respect both the 1994 declaration of the Southern Whale Sanctuary as well as their 28-year old moratorium on commercial whaling. The Southern Ocean, the environmentally sensitive waters around Antarctica,… [Continue Reading]

The European Commission failed to reach an unqualified decision on the proposal to prohibit international trade of Atlantic bluefin tuna at the upcoming meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). Monaco proposed a CITES Appendix I listing for the Atlantic bluefin tuna because the species is in dire straits.  This is… [Continue Reading]

Commonwealth study urges governments to act to stave off disaster. The world faces a “global crisis” in marine fisheries as a result of overfishing.  In a study on the State of Marine Fisheries, a group of 24 scientists and academics, state that plummeting fish stocks are leading to wide-ranging and damaging consequences for marine habitats… [Continue Reading]

As the result of a Center for Biological Diversity settlement with the US Fish and Wildlife Service in June of 2009,  a federal rule was finalised to protect the Galapagos Petrel and Heinroth’s Shearwater as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.  As part of the settlement, the Service also published listing determinations for 12 birds… [Continue Reading]

New York, September 29, 2009. The two largest marine protected areas in the world are now linked in partnership to enhance the management and conservation of almost 300,000 square miles of the Pacific Ocean.  Encompassing 25 percent of all marine protected areas on earth, the two sites – one in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and… [Continue Reading]