While out one day at a flea market, BABCE director Michelle observed a stall that sold crocodile skin handbags, supposedly approved by CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species). While the validity of this statment is questionable, it does bring up the question of the effectiveness of this and other acts for the protection of wildlife and plants.
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1) SInce April there has been protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline since April. The DAP, situated in North Dakota near Bismarck and the Sioux Reservation, has been protested because of concerns over polluting the Missouri River and that the pipe goes through tribal lands. There are some disputes about these claims, but that is a different debate. While the Army Corps of Engineers recommended the DAP be approved, a civilian leader, Jo Ellen Darcy, decided that it should be postpone to consider ramifications.
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March 2019
"There is nothing in which the birds differ more than man than the way that they can build and yet leave the landscape as it was before." |