The report suggests that the illicit sale of animals and plants is the world's fourth largest illegal trade after narcotics, counterfeiting of products and currency and the trafficking of people.
Simon Pope is the head of external affairs for the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA).
South Africa has been badly hit by poaching because it has the largest population of rhinos in the world, with about 20, 000 animals - 70-80% of the global figure.
"Today's decision is a tremendous victory for one of the world's most iconic and charismatic animals, " said Carter Roberts, president and CEO of World Wildlife Fund US on the group's Web site.
With a major two-lane highway running through it, Mikumi National Park might be one of the only places in the world to offer views of wild animals and grassy savannahs for the price of a bus ticket.
The people of this world are talking animals, and the skies are filled with dragons and sky squids.
Animals arriving from other parts of the world will still have to be kept in isolation.
Richard O' Barry is the World Society for the Protection of Animals' marine mammal specialist.
Of all the animals in our world, humans have the deepest emotional ties with horses and dogs.
"We are delighted there have been no fatalities in today's big race, " Dr. Mark Kennedy from the World Society for the Protection of Animals told CNN on Saturday .
Simon Pope, a spokesman for the World Society for the Protection of Animals in London, said his group would like to know whether other rat-control methods that don't involve toxic substances were investigated and what assessment has been made about the pesticides on the birds.
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Although his paintings captured everything from U.S. presidents to jazz musicians to the powerful animals of Africa, Neiman became best known for his bright, bold sketches of the sports world, capturing its motion and emotion in his brushstrokes.
The ban applies to all new cosmetics and their ingredients sold in the EU, regardless of where in the world testing on animals was carried out.
To do this, the researchers turned to one of the world's most widely used experimental animals, the hard-up male student.
The data is linked to Google Maps so you can see the kind of terrain or where in the world these animals are.
It says much about Los Angeles and the lack of cohesion of its elite that Mr Chandler could virtually disappear into the African bush on a quest to reduce the world's population of wild animals, and not be missed in the tonier precincts of Hancock Park or San Marino the gilded ghettos of sunny southern California.
The animals organized a school to help their children deal with the problems of the new world.
But there's still quite a number of people here who support him, and he is one of the world's best scientists when it comes to cloning of animals.
It taps directly into their inherent fascination with the natural world, if only because of the standard array of farm animals: horses, donkeys, sheep, geese and that perennial favourite, the family dog, which keep little hearts thrilled.
The following year complaints began to trickle in from victualling yards in the UK and from British seamen around the world that other parts of animals were being found in canned meat.
When you look at biology, when you look at the natural world, the roles of a male and a female in society and in other animals, the male typically is the dominant role.
Sunk just off Key West , an island in the Straits of Florida, in 2009, the Vandenberg is the second-largest artificial reef in the world, attracting a diverse range of marine animals and plant life.
The Italian Slow Food movement, which campaigns for traditional cuisine, has honoured 13 individuals and groups for their efforts to save and promote the world's heritage of tastes, flavours, animals and vegetable species.
According to one estimate, the world will be using 50, 000 tons of antibiotics on people and animals by 2000.
The H7N9 virus, previously known only to infect birds, appears to have mutated so that it can more easily jump to animals like pigs, meaning the range of potential hosts has expanded, the Associated Press reported Wednesday, citing a World Health Organization scientist studying the virus's genetic makeup.
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