SYDNEY 25 MAY 2025: The Queensland Crisafulli government’s ‘new’ Shark Control Program—that will amp up the slaughter of sharks—looks like it was written in the 1900’s and flies in the face of conservation science while doing nothing to improve swimmer safety.  The news was revealed today in a Courier Mail...
Trading in wild animals has been a ticking time bomb for deadly pandemic diseases. Now COVID-19 has exploded as a global health emergency and brought worldwide devastation to lives and livelihoods, it is time for governments to get serious about shutting it down.
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