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TIMOR-LESTE: Bird flu worries as awareness remains low

Source: IRIN

Dili :: East Timor | updated Mon Nov 23 00:45:48 -0800 2009 | green-news

Ask Afonso de Jesus what he knows about avian influenza (H5N1) and the answer is worrying. “What’s that?” the 27-year-old chicken vendor asked, holding a bird he hopes to sell on the open market in Dili, the Timorese capital. “I...

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Environmental laws fail to protect endangered fauna in East Timor

Posted by: wwright

Dili :: East Timor | updated Sun Jul 05 04:24:34 -0700 2009 | green-news

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_juqB-R1zC4c/Sk9WGytwDNI/AAAAAAAACIo/hpFvMdT9OHI/s320/timor_animal_2.JPG ETLJB 4 July 2009 SYDNEY - These images of the carcasses of several protected cuscus apparently for sale at a market place in the eastern town of Los Palos in East Timor were published on...

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