Word: speciesism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The lumber business is only one of many Japanese industries that have had far-reaching impact on the global environment. A combination of traditional crafts and consumer tastes for the exotic makes Japan the world's largest market for many threatened species and the products created from them. Over the...
The question is whether the policy shifts signify genuine change or skillful public relations. Tom Milliken, who heads TRAFFIC (Japan), part of the international organization that monitors the wildlife trade, gives Japan measured praise for its attempts to control commerce in endangered species. Says he: "Japan has gone from being...
Tropical-forest destruction has become an urgent international issue because, as scientists point out, if the trees go, millions of different animal and plant species will become extinct, and the information encoded in their genes will be lost forever. Moreover, deforestation can lead to local disruptions of rainfall patterns and...
Environmentalists give Japan its highest marks for its turnaround on trade in endangered species, but they question whether the new reforms are too little and too late. While Japan has greatly reduced its whaling, whale lovers are concerned that the country still kills hundreds of minke whales for "scientific research...
Unfortunately, the Japanese ivory traders delayed too long. Unrelenting poaching has cut Africa's wild elephant population by more than half in the past decade, to an estimated 625,000. In October the 102 nations that subscribe to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species are expected to declare...