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Members of the public and representatives of animal protection and conservation organizations are rallying in Harbor View Memorial Park in Portland, Maine, to protest Iceland’s expanding commercial whaling program, and its links to fish and other Icelandic products imported into the United States through Portland, Maine.

Jellyfish

Seized Shipment of Illegal African Elephant Tusks, Thailand Customs officials in Suvarnabhumi discover a shipment of African elephant tusks from Mozambique. Suvarnabhumi is a major hub for both wildlife and drug trafficking, Thailand.

Nile River in the fashionable suburb of Maadi in Cairo, Egypt

Currently Sealord buys much of its tuna from boats using purse seine nets set on Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) – floating lures that attract far more than adult tuna. This destructive method is globally responsible for catching about 200,000 tonnes of other marine life every year such as sharks, rays, baby tuna and critically endangered turtles.

Cheetahs in Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

Weapons seized from suspected elephant poachers in Gabon were burned with the country's ivory stockpile.

Baltic Ecoregion

Overfishing