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Porbeagle shark dealt setback at UN meeting

A U.N. wildlife meeting has rejected efforts to regulate the trade in overfished porbeagle sharks, reversing an earlier ruling at the conference and leaving none of the proposed shark species with protection.

The conference initially approved protection of the porbeagle earlier in the week at the 175-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES. But Asia nations managed to reopen the debate on the final day of the conference Thursday and voted to kill the proposal… Read Full Article

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