KATHMANDU, June 1: In a landmark victory for wildlife conservation, the Supreme Court (SC) has issued an order to investigate private possession of illegal wildlife parts and confiscate them.
The Judges laid special emphasis on putting up a concerted effort to launch a massive awareness campaign to bust the myth about wildlife parts so that the demand for these items come down drastically which in turn will result in a reduction of wildlife crimes like hunting and illegal trade.
Police in South Africa have arrested a Vietnamese man and seized about 60 kilos of lion claws, teeth and other items following a four-month probe into wildlife trafficking, the government said on Saturday.
departs? reporter: i think it s a long-term process to make chinese people who use these medicines think about what they re actually doing. he did actually hook up with yao ming the famous sportsman from china. the basketball player. had a very successful campaign in china. i think perhaps modeling it on that. this was around shark fin soup. basically telling people in china this actually it doesn t have healing qualities that you think it does. and democrat dropped massively. that was with the support of the chinese government. so i think prince william will try and reflect the success of that campaign in relation to ivory for example. so that s what he s trying to do. and he is quite a powerful cultural figure in china. so he hopes that just by changing thoughts and feelings around illegal wildlife parts that will have the impact that he s looking for. it might do it. absolutely. max foster, thank you very much. appreciate it. you have been watching cnn newsroom. thank you
youth center where a lot of other children were disappointed. they expected to meet the princess after the frozen movie, but they were all taken by her as often people are when they meet her for the very first time. meanwhile, the duke met the president. he asked him if he knew the sex of their forthcoming child. and prince william conceded they don t yet. they want it to be a surprise. prince william went on to hold a speech, about his pet cause that asks people to join his fight against the illegal poachers in africa and the whole trade in the illegal wildlife parts. it is a feeling shared by secretary clinton so the two met up to talk about how to take the cause forward. certainly a busy monday here in washington. and it continues on tuesday. the first event is them paying their respects at the 9/11 memorial museum. max foster, cnn, new york.