CITES Appendix II – Charm

Call for tougher animal welfare laws after invasive turtle found in Hong Kong

3 months ago02 mins

Hong Kong animal rights activists have called on the government to create a list of approved pets after an abandoned 85kg (187lbs) alligator snapping turtle was found eating fish in a New Territories pond. They also called on authorities to microchip turtles sold to the public, toughen penalties for letting pets loose in the wild…

6.5% of shark fins sold in Hong Kong are protected, higher than reported: study

4 months ago01 mins

An extensive study of 16,000 shark fin samples taken from Hong Kong retail markets has found that 6.5 per cent of them were from globally protected species, surpassing the figure officially declared by local authorities under an international agreement. “This translates to over 95 per cent of the trade in oceanic whitetip sharks being illegal,”…