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Tuna for sale at the Tokyo Fish Market, Japan

20 Nov 2008
Thousands join bluefin tuna boycott
Close to 16,000 citizens from 149 countries have signed up to join numerous restaurants, retailers and chefs in boycotting Mediterranean bluefin tuna – until stocks have recovered and the fishery is properly controlled and managed.
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The Amur, or Siberian, tiger (<I>Panthera tigris altaica</I>) is threatened by poaching.

19 Nov 2008
Signs of Amur tiger in China give hope for struggling species
The discovery of Amur tiger tracks in Changbaishan in north-eastern China has given conservationists hope for a species that is rarely seen in that area.
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Indian elephant (<i>Elephas maximus bengalensis</i>), India.

17 Nov 2008
Humans and elephants on collision course in South Asia
Massive international investment in large-scale infrastructure projects in southern Asia will increase human-elephant conflict and cause more deaths on both sides unless much greater care is taken.
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Feature Stories


 
The resignation of Marina Silva, Brazilian Minister of the Environment, was a surprise for the conservationist community.

28 Oct 2008
Marina Silva: philosophy in practice
Interview with Marina Silva, winner of the 2008 WWF Duke of Edinburgh Medal

Common people, in their majority, envisage philosophers as persons who have lost contact with the real world and live somewhere between heaven and earth, in some kind of ideal realm, far from the ungracefulness of every day life. Maybe they are like that, or at least partly so, since their occupation is to understand and explain the human soul and the meaning of things.
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