be honoured. deal at the table, that it will be honoured. exactly, and that is what we need. when there is trade invaluable series, sharks are very valuable, shark fins highly prized, it is a half billion dollars a year industry and that incentivises bad behaviour and black markets and things like that and that is why so many shark species are plummeting and population around the world, so, a step in the right direction and i applaud all the other countries that support these proposals. shark fin soup injapan as a delicacy, and that country is not happy about these arrangements, but give us the context of that, it is essentiallyjust context of that, it is essentially just the shark fin that they are after and they take the whole animal as a result. , , ., ,, result. sometimes they take the shark fin and result. sometimes they take the shark fin and dump result. sometimes they take the shark fin and dump the - result. sometimes they take the shark fin and dump the animal i shark fi
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this is bbc news, the latest headlines. new the latest headlines. chinese surveillance equipment new chinese surveillance equipment is banned in the us, over concerns that it could be used for spying. hospital patients are evacuated from the recently liberated ukrainian city of kherson after constant russian shelling. an agreement has been reached at a global conservation summit to substantially reduce the trade in shark fins. it comes on the final day of the convention on international trade in endangered species summit in panama. environmental groups say tens of millions of sharks are killed every year for theirfins. the market is estimated to be worth $500 million a year. we can now speak david shiffman who s a marine conservation biologist at arizona state university. thank state university. you forjoining us. how big thank you forjoining us. how big a deal is this? this
we need, it s hard cash. cuba has declared nine days of mourning following castro developed close ties with the soviet union in the 1960s. it was an alliance that brought the world this is bbc world news, the latest headlines. new chinese surveillance equipment is banned in the us over concerns it could be used for spying. hospital patients are evacuated from the recently liberated ukrainian city of kherson after constant russian shelling. an agreement has been reached at a global conservation summit to reduce the trade in shark fins. it comes on the final day of the convention on international trade in endangered species summit in panama.
or tighten restrictions, so it should in theory help many species recover down the line. interesting the way that you framed that. policing these things would be nigh on impossible, i guess, if they were to be done on a case by case basis, but there is this understanding across the piece that, if there is a deal at the table, that it will be honoured. exactly, and that is what we need. when there is trade in valuable series, sharks are very valuable, shark fins highly prized, it is a half billion dollars a year industry and that incentivises bad behaviour and black markets and things like that and that is why so many shark species are plummeting in population around the world, so, a step in the right direction and i applaud all the other countries that support these proposals. shark fin soup injapan is a delicacy, and that country