by AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 23, 2016 | Freshwater, Marine, News & Notes
CITES CoP17, Johannesburg, South Africa, starts tomorrow. This is the 17th Conference of Parties meeting to be held, a meeting which has been held roughly every 2-3 years since the first CoP in 1976. CoP meetings are the time when changes to CITES listings for species...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Dec 8, 2014 | Freshwater, News & Notes
via PressReleasePoint for US Dept. of Justice San Jose Man Charged with Violating the Endangered Species Act December 8th, 2014 – SAN JOSE – Ryan Lopez Bernardez was arraigned today on charges that he violated the Endangered Species Act by transporting...
by Matt Pedersen | Sep 5, 2014 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
It’s been a busy few weeks at Reef To Rainforest headquarters in Vermont; the marine aquarium trade is facing a growing threat to its existence as we know it as a result of new Endangered Species Act (ESA) rulings listing 20 Corals as Threatened under the ESA....
by Matt Pedersen | Aug 4, 2014 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater, News & Notes
Opinion by Matt Pedersen I grew up with the Redtailed Black Shark; back then we knew it was Labeo bicolor but these days we call it Epalzeorhynchos bicolor. I’m sure I owned one before my 10th birthday, which puts the timeframe into the early-mid 1980s. Only a...
