Time to Confront the Aquarium Trade’s ‘Gray Areas’
The Revelator, 16 December 2024 – “We’ve got to shrink the flavors of fishes available to hobbyists”, says a ornamental fish trade veteran and tells about these gray areas: the …
33nd Animals Committee meeting to the Convention on International Trade on Endangered Species CITES
12 – 19 July 2024: The 33nd Animals Committee meeting to the Convention on International Trade on Endangered Species CITES took place in Geneva, Switzerland. After the CITES International Technical …
Europe’s ongoing challenge in adequately monitoring the century-old trade of colourful marine ornamental fishes derived from endangered coral reefs
20 June 2024: Presenting our new findings at the 7th European Conference of Conservation Biology in Bologna, Italy. The centuries-old, multi-billion-dollar trade in marine ornamental fishes has never been reliably …
Die Wahrheit über die Zierfischindustrie | Mission: Bali
99% der tropischen Salzwasserfische kommen aus dem Meer. Keine Nachzuchten alles frisch gefangen aus dem Meer, weil es einfach nicht möglich ist, sie zu züchten. 99% of tropical saltwater fishes …
Will the USA save the Banggai cardinalfish?
1 November 2023: The populations of the Banggai cardinalfish (Pterapogon kauderni) are in an extremely alarming state. This species is found only in the eastern part of Sulawesi, Indonesia, in …
A new, ‘sustainable’ installation for the Radisson Blue in Berlin
Der Spiegel, 11.10.2023: In the early morning of 16 December 2022, the huge Aquadome aquarium had burst and over 1300 fish had died. Now, it seems, the operators have come …
32nd Animals Committee meeting to the Convention on International Trade on Endangered Species CITES
19 – 23 June 2023: The 32nd Animals Committee meeting to the Convention on International Trade on Endangered Species CITES took place in Geneva, Switzerland. The long-attended date and venue …
«Wie geht es den Fischen aus dem geplatzten Aquarium?» Interview mit Zoo-Tierarzt Andé Schüle
In einem Interview im Der Spiegel vom 14. März 2023 meinte der Tierarzt vom Zoo Berlin, den Fischen gehe es im Zoo besser als im Ozean: Hier der Artikel. Und …
Die Känguru-Comics
Die Zeit, 14.12.2022 – Wir veröffentlichen jeden Tag eine neue Folge von Autor Marc-Uwe Kling und Zeichner Bernd Kissel. Die Känguru-Comics sind außerdem als Sammelband im Carlsen-Verlag erschienen. LINK: https://www.zeit.de/kaenguru-comics/2022-12/folge-555
CITES CoP19 – The trade in marine ornamental fishes
23.11.2022 – The consequences of the removal of millions of these fishes are poorly understood. It is almost impossible to analyse the trade in marine ornamental fishes due to a …