Necklace noose loosened for coral (BBC)

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By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website, The Hague

The global body regulating the wildlife trade has voted to protect the red and pink corals widely used in jewellery.

Corals of the genus Corallium are to be listed on Appendix 2 of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

Over-harvesting in the Mediterranean and western Pacific has caused major declines in recent years.

It is said a spectacular Corallium necklace can fetch up to $20,000 (£10,000) in US boutiques.

Campaigners professed they were delighted with the outcome.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6750433.stm

[ThomCat]

1. Good. We need to be doing a lot more to protect

the undersea environment.