Vietnam seizes over 1,000 dead endangered sea turtles

The Guardian 25 November 2014 Vietnam’s environmental police have seized a record haul of over 1,000 endangered sea turtles which were being prepared for illegal export to China, an official said on Tuesday. “The turtles were all dead,” said Le Hong Thai, an official of the Ministry of public security’s environmental police department. “They were meant to be processed into Read More…

Alien species pose threat to Vietnamese wildlife

VietNamNet Bridge 23 November 2014 Viet Nam must improve its ability to control invasive alien species (IAS), participants said at a workshop on Wednesday in Ha Noi. IAS refers to animals or plants introduced accidentally or deliberately into a new environment that pose serious threats to native plants and animals. Managing IAS in Viet Nam has become increasingly difficult in recent Read More…

5 Takeaways From Huge Once-a-Decade Gathering on World’s Protected…

National Geographic 21 November 2014 SYDNEY—Must conservation and economic development always be locked in combat, with no hope for one unless the other is suffering? At the World Parks Congress, a once-a-decade global forum on protected areas that drew more than 6,000 delegates from 170 countries to Australia this week, influential voices argued again and again that the typically Read More…

World fishery day observed

Business Recorder 21 November 2014 ISLAMABAD: The world Fisheries day was celebrated on Friday throughout the world including Pakistan by the fisherfolk communities. A recent United Nations study reported that more than two thirds of the world's fisheries have been overfished or are fully harvested and more than one third are in a state of decline because of factors such as the loss of Read More…

Surrogate sashimi: Japan scientists using biotech tricks to conserve…

Star Tribune 20 November 2014 TATEYAMA, Japan — Of all the overfished fish in the seas, luscious, fatty bluefin tuna are among the most threatened. Marine scientist Goro Yamazaki, who is known in this seaside community as "Young Mr. Fish," is working to ensure the species survives. Yamazaki is fine-tuning a technology to use mackerel surrogates to spawn the bluefin, a process he hopes Read More…

Tasty animals end up on latest list of threatened species

Science News 18 November 2014 SYDNEY — Each morning at the famous Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, large tuna are auctioned off, sold to become sushi, sashimi and other tasty meals. About 80 percent of all the Pacific bluefin tuna caught end up in Japan, and now an alarming number of juvenile fish are included in that number. The young fish are killed before they’ve had a chance to Read More…

Man killed while electrofishing in Phuket pond

Phuket Gazette 18 November 2014 PHUKET: A man was found dead in a Phuket pond this morning after he was killed while electrofishing. Suchart Chanaprasit, 36, was found dead at about 8:45am with the electric cable still in his hand, Capt Wittaya Sincharoen of the Thung Thong Police told the Phuket Gazette. “He was still gripping the electric cable he had been using to stun the fish Read More…

The dedicated bird conservationists in southern Vietnam park

Tuoi Tre News 16 November 2014 Over the past few years, a group of veterinary engineers, forest rangers and volunteers have been dedicated to the rescue and caretaking of birds, particularly endangered ones, at a national wildlife reserve in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap. Tram Chim National Park, which spans several communes in the province’s Tam Nong District, is home to 233 Read More…

Google, Environmentalist Groups Team Up for Fish Conservation

Franchise Herald 15 November 2014 Tech giant Google Inc. along with environmentalists Skyruth and Oceania recently embarked on a daunting task of monitoring overfishing around the world's oceans. The project necessitates a combined technological combination of cloud computing, utilization of big data and establishing large networks. Dubbed Global Fishing Watch, the aim of the project Read More…

Growing Red List Deters Ornamental Fish Exports

Daily Mirror 11 November 2014 The ever increasing list of fish species which have come under the threat of extinction – the Red List – has confined the growth of the ornamental fish exports, which bring as much as US $ 10 million foreign exchange and provide livelihoods to over 100,000 people in Sri Lanka, according to the country’s Industry and Commerce Minister.“One development Read More…