http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/tags/conservation.htm Latest news stories from around the world. Radio Australia News nospam@your.abc.net.au nospam@your.abc.net.au 2008-09-02T12:21:10+11:00 2008-09-02T12:21:10+11:00 Australia's Antarctic Division says Japan's justification for whaling in the Southern Ocean has been largely rejected by the scientific community.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2353078.htm2008-09-02T12:21:10+11:00An environmental group in the Northern Marianas has welcomed plans to consider parts of the Pacific Ocean marine sanctuaries or monuments.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2351423.htm2008-09-01T08:36:27+11:00Sumatra's endangered elephants and tigers are to get a boost from an Indonesian government move to expand one of their last havens.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2349025.htm2008-08-28T13:25:36+11:00Researchers say Indonesian fishermen who've been banned from hunting certain species in the waters off Northern Australia could work as sea rangers monitoring vulnerable whale shark populations.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2343230.htm2008-08-22T08:19:04+11:00British and Indonesian researchers say they have discovered a new population of clouded leopard in a national park on the Indonesian part of Borneo.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2340865.htm2008-08-20T09:04:05+11:00New figures released by the Worldwide Fund for Nature reveal hundreds of tonnes of shark fin are being exported from Australia every year.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2340868.htm2008-08-20T09:04:09+11:00New research shows nearly a quarter of the world's whale species are facing extinction, but there remains hope for two of Australia's most commonly seen migrating whales, as Stephanie Smail reports.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2333178.htm2008-08-12T18:11:46+11:00The International Union for the Conservation of Nature says nearly half the world's species of primates face extinction unless urgent action is taken to curb hunting and protect their natural habitat, according to a new study.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2325650.htm2008-08-06T14:34:19+11:00Humanity's closest cousins - gorillas, orangutans and other primates - are dying out at an unprecedented rate, with some being eaten to extinction.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2325257.htm2008-08-06T00:32:43+11:00East Timor has inaugurated its first national park, in a move to protect and preserve 123,000 hectares of land and sea at eastern tip of the island.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2323205.htm2008-08-04T20:28:59+11:00A new report on the status of coral reefs under United States control shows those in its Pacific territories are faring far better than its mainland or Caribbean reefs.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200807/s2297896.htm2008-07-08T15:26:09+11:00Environmental activists have protested against a Government plan to build a freeway in eastern Taiwan.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200807/s2297096.htm2008-07-08T11:56:57+11:00Japan and Australia have had their first heated exchange on the floor of the international whaling commission.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200806/s2286203.htm2008-06-26T08:12:33+11:00A new report has warned that a critical foraging ground for thousands of whales near Antartica is losing its ice cover, faster than many had thought.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200806/s2279283.htm2008-06-19T08:39:30+11:00Palau's President has signed a bill which will ban the export of live reef fish.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200805/s2243545.htm2008-05-13T16:09:49+11:00Australia's Foreign Minister says he's happy to leave it up to the Papua New Guinea Government to decide if mining is allowed along the Kokoda Track.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200804/s2227142.htm2008-04-25T05:04:39+11:00The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) says time is running out to ensure development does not ruin northern Australia.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200804/s2222903.htm2008-04-21T12:54:13+11:00United States biologists say they have found a soft-shell giant tortoise living in northern Vietnam, after believing it had become extinct in the wild.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200804/s2219561.htm2008-04-17T11:48:50+11:00Japan says the failure of its whaling fleet to net little more than half its target catch this year is 'regrettable'.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200804/s2216912.htm2008-04-15T15:31:26+11:00