The world's top wildlife trade body voted Thursday to effectively ban all international trade in the critically endangered oceanic whitetip shark but rejected a proposal to protect more species of eel ...

The population of American eels has declined. They need protection, conservationists say, despite their resilience. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll find out about eels that ...

An international conference on trade in endangered species held a vote Thursday on the protection of all types of eel. The European Union proposal that all kinds of eel, including Japanese eel, should ...

Eel Populations Are Falling, and New Protections Were Defeated. Japan and the US Opposed Them SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — Eels are the stuff of nightmares — slimy, snakelike creatures that lay millions ...

Signatories to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington convention, voted at a committee meeting on Thursday to reject a ...

An international conference on trade in endangered species is set to vote Thursday on the protection of all types of eels. Japan plans to oppose it. The Conference of the Parties to the Convention on ...

Electric-blue ribbon eel stuns divers off the coast of Indonesia Divers were treated to an unusual sight in the waters near Bali: a blue ribbon eel gracefully undulating through the sea. November 30, ...