Endangered African Antelope Wins Protection from American Hunters


	Endangered African Antelope Wins Protection from American Hunters

chestnut501

7-2-2009 5:39 PM

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U.S. trophy hunters were paying to kill three endangered species of African game at American ranches

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7dc00957-cc26-40a4-9539-60d0e5537f47/FA649446-39AE-4F81-AEFD-419B28828F9D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=endangered-african-antelopes-win-pr-2009-06-29" href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=endangered-african-antelopes-win-pr-2009-06-29" style="font-size: 11px;">www.scientificamerican.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=endangered-african-antelopes-win-pr-2009-06-29">Until last week, U.S. trophy hunters had the legal right to hunt three species of endangered African game at American ranches, thanks to a “blanket exemption” to the Endangered Species Act issued during the Bush administration.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=endangered-african-antelopes-win-pr-2009-06-29"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.scientificamerican.com/img/DD305497-6E43-4149-A6C4-CDB8880F4212" alt="scimitar horned oryx" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=endangered-african-antelopes-win-pr-2009-06-29"><DIV>
That loophole has <A href="http://world-wire.com/news/0906230001.html">now been closed</A>, following a federal judge’s <A href="http:// https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2006cv2120-43">ruling</A> in a lawsuit brought by the organization Friends of Animals, based on Darien, Conn.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=endangered-african-antelopes-win-pr-2009-06-29"><DIV>
The ruling protects U.S.-bred scimitar-horned oryx (<EM>Oryx dammah</EM>), addax (<EM>Addax nasomaculatus</EM>), and dama gazelles (<EM>Nanger dama</EM>), all of which are critically endangered in their African homelands, according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=endangered-african-antelopes-win-pr-2009-06-29">Until now, American sport hunters could pay $3,500 to hunt and kill a scimitar-horned oryx—and even more for an addax or dama gazelle—and keep the carcasses as trophies. International travel to accomplish the same task has long been banned by the Endangered Species Act and the <A href="http://www.cites.org/eng/disc/what.shtml">Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna</A></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FA649446-39AE-4F81-AEFD-419B28828F9D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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