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Africa, Asia to tackle illegal ivory trade
AFP, Published on 04/12/2013
» GABORONE, Botswana - African and Asian nations on Tuesday agreed on urgent measures to tackle the illegal ivory trade, from the slaughter of elephants to the trafficking of their valuable tusks to the Far East.
Cites tries to curb illegal logging
AFP, Published on 12/03/2013
» Governments agreed Tuesday to step up efforts to protect threatened tree species from illegal loggers, amidst warnings that criminal gangs are plundering the world's forests.
Facebook friends Wall Street with planned $5 bn IPO
AFP, Published on 02/02/2012
» Investors have come down with Facebook fever after the social networking titan filed to go public and seek to raise $5 billion in the largest flotation ever by an Internet company on Wall Street.