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Airport staff suspects in Sh130m ivory probe
Source:Capital FM BY:Bernard Momanyi
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 6 - Police are investigating possible collusion of airport officials in the bid to ship 1.4 tonnes of ivory valued at Sh130m through the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Thursday night. The 115 tusks which were sealed in metal boxes and smeared with pepper were abandoned at the import cargo section by people who were trying to ship the cargo to Lagos, Nigeria. Deputy Airport Police Commandant Eunice Kihiko told journalists they suspect there was collusion between owners of the cargo and officials at the airport because the cargo had no clearing documents.
"We highly suspect this is a major syndicate and collusion between clearing agents here at the airport. The fact that this cargo was found at the import section and not export section is enough to show that something unusual was being done here," she said. "We have not arrested any suspect but I can assure you we will get them. We will not spare anyone, they have killed many elephants and we cannot allow such business to be carried here," she added when displaying the tusks to journalists at the JKIA on Friday morning. Police told journalists they will contact the Foreign Affairs Ministry to confirm the authenticity of the labelled embassies, amid fears they may be non-existent in the capital Nairobi. The airport's CID chief Joseph Ngisa said: "You can see they have labelled it to look like the ivory tusks were being transported from two embassies here in Nairobi, but we highly think that this is just a way of concealing the truth"... Click To View The Entire Article |
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8 of 20 stranded pilot whales being nursed back to health
Source:Miami Herald BY:Cammy Clark
There was some success Friday [May 6, 2011] as marine mammal rescue responders and volunteers worked around the clock to save pilot whales that stranded themselves in shallow waters in the Lower Keys.
For 6 ½ hours in waist-deep water and the darkness of night, volunteer Jan Rylander held and comforted a young pilot whale she nicknamed Ellie. "I just talked to her and prayed," she said. Rylander was part of a large effort that began about 4 p.m. Thursday to save a pod of about 20 pilot whales. They inexplicably stranded themselves in shallow waters spanning more than 10 miles off Cudjoe Key in the Lower Keys.
Before it became too dark Thursday, six of the whales were transported alive to a makeshift sea pen at the end of Blimp Road here, about 15 miles from Key West. The search resumed at daylight Friday, with participants from the nonprofit Marine Mammal Conservancy, NOAA, the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, the U.S. Coast Guard and private boats. Two more whales were found alive and brought to the sea pen. But 12 others were found dead under the baking sun. It was the first mass stranding in the Keys since 2003, when 28 pilot whales were involved in waters off Big Pine Key, less than 15 miles away. That stranding also occurred in the spring. "We have no idea why they stranded, and we may never know," said Karrie Carnes, spokeswoman for the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Veterinarians did medical assessments and took blood from the eight survivors, which were in stable but guarded condition. "They are not out of the woods yet," Carnes said late Friday... Click To View Article In Full |
Wolves Off U.S. Endangered Species List, Lawsuit Seeks Reinstatement
Source:Environment News Service
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today [May 5, 2011] issued a final rule to remove protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies under the Endangered Species Act. The rule is identical to the 2009 delisting rule that was struck down by a federal court in August 2010. Effective immediately, the rule will return management authority over wolves to the states of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and Utah, while retaining federal control in Wyoming until an adequate state management plan is developed. The rule is required by a rider added to the continuing budget resolution passed by Congress last month that funds the federal government for the remainder of this fiscal year.
The rider was attached to the federal budget bill by Senator Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, and Representative Mike Simpson, an Idaho Republican, and marked the first time an animal or plant has been removed from the endangered species list by Congress. That rider was challenged in court today by the Center for Biological Diversity. The nonprofit group filed a challenge in federal court in Missoula, Montana, arguing that a congressional rider requiring removal of Endangered Species Act protections for wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains is unlawful because it violates the separation of powers in the U.S. Constitution. "The wolf rider is a clear example of overreaching by Congress that resulted in the wrongful removal of protections for wolves," said Noah Greenwald, endangered species director at the Center for Biological Diversity. "The rider is not only a disaster for wolves but for any endangered species that a politician doesn't like. Congress has set a terrible precedent that we hope to overturn."... Click To View The Full Article |
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