From the AP: U.N. Temporarily Halts Caviar Exports
GENEVA – A U.N. panel ordered a temporary halt to caviar exports by the world’s major producers Tuesday, buying time for experts to find ways to reverse dwindling populations of threatened sturgeon — whose eggs provide the culinary delicacy.
Many sturgeon species are suffering “serious population declines,” said the U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES.
So they will act to stop the exploitation of sturgeon eggs, but for the lives of the poor people like in Darfur, they continue to let them be slaughtered.
From the Strategy Page: Chaos, and No Relief in Sight
Darfur has fallen into anarchy, with army troops, pro-government tribal militias, bandits, anti-government rebels and AU peacekeepers all fighting one another. It’s a low key war, with the main objective being to rob, rape and kill civilians, or loot UN relief operations, or trying to stop the all the lawlessness.
So the assumption on my part here is, when the lives of the less fortunate around the world become as threatened, as those of the sturgeon, the United Nations will be prompt in acting to stop the serious population decline. Until then, the less fortunate will have to try and find their own way to reverse their dwindling populations.