MANILA, Philippines - Authorities moved thousands of villagers from harm's way near the Philippines' most active volcano Tuesday after it oozed lava and shot plumes of ash, and said they probably would spend a bleak Christmas in an evacuation center.

PROPOSALS from Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) members on sharks and swordfish were adopted at the 6th Regular Session of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) meeting.

Sea Shepherd Says Its Time to Enforce the Law Japan's Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada has confessed to what the rest of the world has known all along.

This whaling season, the whalers are planning to kill 50 humpback whales - this would break a four decade ban on hunting humpbacks and has ramifications for Australia's thriving whale watching industry.

The ban on exporting shark products will become effective in March 2010, the Ministry of Fisheries has said.

Canada is launching a trade challenge of Europe's ban on marketing seal products. But protecting the seal hunt's reputation in other markets, not selling fur to Europe, is what's really at stake.

THE Belize Barrier Reef System and Los Katios National Park in Columbia are the two natural sites added to the List of World Heritage in Danger, following the advice of IUCN.

Why We Love to be Hated

The expression "shark attacks" has taken on a new and ominous meaning. The number of people bitten each year by sharks is minuscule.

Europe faces a rising wave of wildlife extinctions yet it continues to massively under-resource and under-enforce nature and wildlife protection, according to the WWF following the release of a report by the European Commission showing 65 percent of