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Environment 4 months ago

Wildlife trade body rejects new eel protections

The vote came at a meeting of signatories to the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), a 50-year agreement protecting the world's most endangered animals and plants, and regulating trade in 36,000 species.

Environment 4 years ago

PREMIUM
Adored and endangered: the complex world of the Japanese eel

Consumed worldwide, eel is particularly popular in Asia, and perhaps nowhere more so than Japan, where it has been eaten on the archipelago for thousands of years.

Environment 6 years ago

A shocking find: New high-voltage electric eels revealed

Call it a shock discovery: DNA research has revealed two entirely new species of electric eel in the Amazon basin, including one capable of delivering a record-breaking jolt.

Food 7 years ago

Annual eel-eating day becomes increasingly pricey treat in Japan

As people in Japan treated themselves to grilled eels on eel-eating day Friday, many were faced with a larger bill amid soaring prices for the endangered fish.

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