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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10075

11 February 2010
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/environment
EP backs ban on international trade in bluefin tuna and wants to protect polar bears

Brussels, 10/02/2010 (Agence Europe) - In Strasbourg on Wednesday 10 February, the European Parliament reached agreement on the EU strategic objectives for the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), to be held in Doha (Qatar) on 13-25 March. It recommends that international trade in bluefin tuna be banned, largely because scientists have advised that the current spawning stock biomass of...

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