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Cute posts, cruel trade
Oped, Editorial, Published on 04/11/2025
» For years, CITES -- the United Nations' multilateral treaty aimed at protecting endangered plants and animals from threats posed by international trade -- has focused on combating wildlife trafficking networks that smuggle exotic animals from forests and breeding centres to meet demand from private zoos and the traditional medicine trade.
Consider nature
Oped, Postbag, Published on 23/11/2024
» Re: "1 more dead dugong found", (BP, Nov 19).
The unheralded Bronx teens behind 'breaking'
Oped, Thomas Guzman-Sanchez, Published on 10/08/2024
» The Olympians competing in the inaugural breaking exhibition event at the Paris Games are sure to perform incredible feats of acrobatics while music plays. But you won't catch them doing actual rhythmic dance outside of a few shuffle steps.
Schooling blues
Oped, Postbag, Published on 02/12/2023
» Re: "Worker skills, education 'key to cutting inequality'", (BP, Nov 30).
Phuket oil spill fiasco
Oped, Editorial, Published on 11/08/2023
» Viral images of villagers and tourists in Phuket cleaning sea turtles covered in oil have been a shock and cast the island province in a negative light.
'Insect apocalypse' coming to your neighbourhood
Oped, Adam Minter, Published on 03/08/2023
» An unusually large influx of tiny insects called aphids have been sucking on Dallas-area pecan trees in recent weeks. After they've had their fill, they "excrete" the waste out their back ends and onto cars, driveways and sidewalks. "Texas is covered in a sticky, icky goo," declared a Dallas Morning News headline. Other news outlets offered tips on how to clean up the mess.
Sea turtles struggling to survive
Oped, Assaf Levy, Published on 21/06/2023
» Guided by the Earth's magnetic field, these ancient explorers navigate vast oceanic distances and return to their birthplaces with astonishing precision! They spend their entire lives in seas where they breed, feed, and even sleep. Females are beaching only to lay eggs. Graceful and beautiful, with their streamlined bodies and flippers adapted for swimming, the existing seven species of sea turtles have been navigating the world's oceans for 200 million years. These seven species are leatherback turtle, green turtle, loggerhead turtle, hawksbill turtle, Kemp's ridley turtle, olive ridley turtle and flatback turtle.
Too late for turtles
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/02/2023
» Re: “Recycle to save sea life, dept urges”, (BP, Feb 2). The Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR) is asking us to recycle our plastic waste to help save sea life, but unfortunately too late for the 11 young turtles that died from ingested plastic mistaken for food in the 700-metre floating garbage patch off the Chon Buri coast.
