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Vaquita species has been described as the world s rarest marine mammal - Credit: SEMARNAT/Flickr - Public Domain License
The Mexican government’s decision to loosen its policy of keeping a fishing-free zone around a protected area in the Gulf of California region was a “setback” to keeping alive a near-extinct porpoise species, a conservation group said on Thursday.
There are thought to be only between six and 20 vaquita porpoises left and the species is on the brink of extinction as more die each year in fishing nets than are being born, biologists say.
Mexico had previously banned boats entering the species’ last sanctuary off the coast of Mexico, known as the “zero-tolerance zone”. But the Ministry of Agriculture on Wednesday announced plans to regulate how many fishing boats can enter the area. Some fishing vessels had already been flouting the ban.
TC Energy Corp. is walking away from the Keystone XL pipeline project, ending a decade-plus battle that pitted the energy industry against environmentalists as oilsands producers sought to export Canadian crude.
In his National Rifle Association (NRA) biography, Wayne LaPierre boasts of his prowess as âa skilled hunterâ, but a newly surfaced video of the gruesome 2013 killing of an endangered savanna elephant in Botswana has revealed a different truth: the gun groupâs long-time leader and self-styled role model for big-game hunters is a lousy shot.
Footage of the incident from the Okavango Delta shows the NRA executive vice-president in safari clothing and accompanied by guides, firing three shots at the wounded animal from barely five yards away, with none of them finding the right place to finish it off.
The dying elephant is heard gurgling and struggling for breath, after LaPierreâs initial shot had felled it but failed to kill it.
Footage of the incident from the Okavango Delta shows the NRA executive vice-president in safari clothing and accompanied by guides, firing three shots at the wounded animal from barely five yards away, with none of them finding the right place to finish it off.
The dying elephant is heard gurgling and struggling for breath, after LaPierreâs initial shot had felled it but failed to kill it.
âIâm not sure where youâre shooting,â a guide tells him, before another man is ordered in to finish off the animal with a single shot.
Later in the clip, published on Tuesday by the Trace, a non-profit journalism outlet that focuses on gun-control news and is affiliated to the New Yorker, LaPierreâs wife Susan is seen killing another elephant.
Albany law students seek to put bumblebees on endangered species list
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Law professor Keith Hirokawa and 14 students calling themselves the Bombus Pollinators Association of Law Students, or BPALS, have filed a petition to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for the listing which is based on the Endangered Species Act of 1973.Lori Van BurenShow MoreShow Less
ALBANY A group of Albany law school students has joined a national effort to get the American bumblebee added to the Endangered Species List.
Law professor Keith Hirokawa and 14 students calling themselves the Bombus Pollinators Association of Law Students, or BPALS, have filed a petition to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for the listing which is based on the Endangered Species Act of 1973.