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Friday 19th of April 2024, 19:36 CET |
| Trade ban on Black Sea dolphins rejected |
November 8, 2002
Reuters
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Written by Louise Egan
Posted by HW on April 19, 2024
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A proposed ban on the trade of Black Sea bottlenose dolphins, which are sought after by the aquarium industry worldwide, was rejected on Thursday at a U.N. meeting on endangered species, organizers said.
Georgia, one of six countries with a Black Sea coastline, had asked the 160-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to outlaw all trade in the bottlenose to prevent it from being wiped out.
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The proposal, one of the first to be considered at the meeting that runs to Nov. 15, failed to win a two-thirds majority vote needed for approval due to different interpretations of the limited scientific data available on the species. |
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