Tag - endangered-species

 
 

ENDANGERED SPECIES

COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2014
China flouts efforts to protect world's wildlife
It would be nice to believe China's rhetoric that it cooperates with other countries in protecting wildlife. Yet, for two decades at least, Chinese consumer demand has been directly linked to the precipitous decline of wildlife populations around the globe.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jul 27, 2014
A modest proposal for alleviating the endangerment of Japanese eels
In Japan, most eel is consumed on one day of the year.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 17, 2014
Financial innovation for protection of wildlife
Innovative development finance can play a role in helping the 180 parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species realize its full potential, by adapting widely available cutting-edge technologies and tools to the business of trade permits.
EDITORIALS
Jul 23, 2013
The danger zone for eels
As Japanese eels move closer to an international endangered species list, Japanese consumers had better try to curb their appetite for them.

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A sinkhole in Yashio, which emerged in January, was triggered by a ruptured, aging sewer pipe. Authorities worry that similar sections of infrastructure across the country are also at risk of corrosion.
That sinking feeling: Japan’s aging sewers are an infrastructure time bomb