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Zoos and pet shops around the world still stock animals that are imported live rather than bred in captivity, making illegal wildlife the fourth-largest illicit trade in the world.
If we are to prevent the threat of extinction such trade poses for many species of animals and plants, argues Alice Hughes, we must ensure that only species classed as tradeable, and certified as such, can actually be bought and sold across borders.
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Alice Catherine Hughes, Chinese Academy of Sciences
If we want any future for wild populations of the numerous species traded for pets, exhibits and use in medicines, drastic action is needed to control their international and domestic trade.
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Politics + Society
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Ethan Hee-Seok Shin, Yonsei University
Japan claims that the placement of “comfort girl” statues outside the Japanese legations in South Korea violates international law, but state practice and jurisprudence suggests otherwise.
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Fabio Andres Diaz, International Institute of Social Studies
Two months after signing peace accords with the FARC guerrillas, Colombia is set to start negotiations with the country's second-largest rebel group, the National Liberation Army.
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Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science
Donald Trump is reinventing the royal fiat by novel means: the rule-by-tweet, or 'twiat'. This move is not an extension of popular democracy, but its enemy, and it needs to be resisted.
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Sarah Logan, International Growth Centre; Peter Biar Ajak, International Growth Centre
The risk factors at the heart of vulnerability to conflict can be resolved. But the first step is a ceasefire founded on an inclusive and credible agreement underwritten by the international community
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Francis Pakes, University of Portsmouth; Helgi Gunnlaugsson, University of Iceland
What one isolated case tells us about crime and community on this special island.
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Science + Technology
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Kyle Bowyer, Curtin University
The European Union is currently debating the legal status of intelligent robots, and whether they ought to be given a new classification of 'electronic persons'.
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Alison Macfarlane, City, University of London
A new study suggests women who undergo FGM in societies where it is prevalent have more surviving children – but the evidence isn't strong enough.
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