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The Minister responsible for Fisheries, Willie Kalo Daniel, has lifted the coconut crab ban in TORBA Province. This is effective from February to November this year.

Lowering the total allowable catch and raising the price cost are some of the measures being discussed to ensure there is adequate supply of coconut crabs now and for future generations of Torres Islands.

Conservationists worry the animals, which are vital food sources for many species along the U.S. East Coast, will decline in number...Every year, pharmaceutical companies round up half a million Atlantic horseshoe crabs, bleed them, and return them to the ocean— after which many will die.

This month the tiny Pacific island of Niue became the world’s first “dark sky nation.