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April 8, 2014
Humane Society International/Canada Clarifies Long Standing Position on Inuit Subsistence Sealing
Humane Society International/Canada responds to media reports conflating the issue of the Inuit seal hunt with Canada’s commercial seal hunt.
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April 8, 2014
U.S. Move Offers Reprieve to Elephants in Tanzania, Zimbabwe
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it would temporarily stop imports of sport-hunted trophies of African elephants from Tanzania and Zimbabwe
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April 4, 2014
Princess Anne, Horsemeat & Gassing Badgers:HSI/UK Responds Ahead of BBC Countryfile Interview
HSI/UK responds to an upcoming BBC Countryfile interview featuring Princess Anne making controversial statements regarding England’s badger cull and horsemeat .
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April 3, 2014
UK Abandons Badger Cull Roll Out
HSI/UK responded to the government’s decision to abandon the planned roll out of badger culling to new areas of England in 2014 but to continue the cull in in Somerset and Gloucestershire.
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April 2, 2014
Vietnam Business and Women’s Groups Receive Training to Help Reduce Demand for Rhino Horns
Participants representing business and women’s groups in Vietnam took part in training workshops to promote wildlife conservation and help stop the buying, selling and use of rhino horns in the country.
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April 2, 2014
A Détente in Whale Wars?
Japan announced that it would not send a whaling fleet to the Southern Ocean for the 2014 hunting season, and Rakuten.com said it would ban the sale of whale and dolphin meat.
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March 31, 2014
Possible Bailout for Carino’s Sealing Welfare Program
Rebecca Aldworth, executive director of Humane Society International/Canada, responded to speculation that another government bailout of Carino Company Ltd, a Norwegian-owned seal fur processor in Newfoundland, could be pending.
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March 31, 2014
Corte Superior de la ONU le Ordena al Japón Acabar con la Cacería de Ballenas en el Antártico
Lee la declaración de HSI y HSUS acerca del fallo de la Corte Internacional de Justicia sobre la legalidad del programa japonés de cacería de ballenas.
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March 31, 2014
Top UN Court Orders Japan to End Antarctic Whaling
HSI and The HSUS welcomed the ruling of the International Court of Justice that Japan’s whaling program is a breach of the global whaling moratorium and lacks scientific legitimacy in regard to the quotas set and the numbers taken.
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March 31, 2014
A Whale of a Ruling
The ICJ ruled that Japan's southern ocean whaling activities were in breach of the International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling.
