Fondation Franz Weber

MONTREUX, Switzerland, March 8, 2010 - Indication: The verdict can be downloaded free of charge under: www.presseportal.ch/de/pm/100019151/?langid=2 The United Animal Nations (UAN) is not going to rest with the Geneva International Court of Justice for Animal Rights' sentence of February 22, 2010.

GENEVA, February 17, 2010 - Monday, 22 February 2010, 9 am - 4 pm Centre International de Confrences de Genve CICG Geneva Despite the worldwide moratorium on whale hunting put into place by the International Whaling Commission (IWC), effective since 1986, over 2'000 great whales are being killed every year as well as tens of thousands small whales and dolphins.

MONTREUX, Switzerland, February 17, 2010 - Despite overwhelming opposition from the European Parliament against the resumption of elephant ivory trade, the European Commission now looks increasingly likely to support overturning the 1989 global ban at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), 13th - 25th March in Doha.