{"id":443531,"date":"2010-03-18T10:25:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T14:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3214"},"modified":"2010-03-18T10:25:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T14:25:05","slug":"u-n-convention-rejects-plan-to-protect-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/443531","title":{"rendered":"U.N. convention rejects plan to protect sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gL8azCNT5NIGydeK4OxvFzHTGGEAD9EFSPRO0\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/media\/ALeqM5hnTyXSfD7cMw95NXvWEx4gjvIvxg?size=s2\" width=\"224\" align=\"right\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/Greenwire\/2010\/03\/17\/25\/\" >Greenwire<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Energy_profile_of_China\">China<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Biological_diversity_in_Japan\">Japan<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Energy_profile_of_Russia\">Russia<\/a> yesterday helped defeat a nonbinding measure  that would have raised conservation efforts for sharks.<\/p>\n<p>Critics at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Convention_on_International_Trade_in_Endangered_Species_of_Wild_Fauna_and_Flora_%28CITES%29\">U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered  Species<\/a> worried that the measure, which urged more transparency in the  shark trade and more research into illegal fishing, would hurt poor  nations and that the issue would be better dealt with by regional  authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The United States and European Union were among those supporting the  measure, which fell short of the necessary two-thirds majority. The  vote followed the release of a report charging that high demand for  shark fin soup was pushing some species to the brink of extinction.  According to marine conservation group Oceana, which released the  report, up to 73 million sharks are killed each year.<\/p>\n<p>The vote is seen as a bad omen for the meeting, which will involve  other marine proposals. Among those is a ban on the export of Atlantic  bluefin tuna, prized among sushi lovers (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gL8azCNT5NIGydeK4OxvFzHTGGEAD9EFSPRO0\" >Associated  Press<\/a>, March 16). <strong>&#8211; JP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3214&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3214\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwire: China, Japan and Russia yesterday helped defeat a nonbinding measure that would have raised conservation efforts for sharks. Critics at the U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species worried that the measure, which urged more transparency in the shark trade and more research into illegal fishing, would hurt poor nations and that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}