A giant and dangerous snail from Africa has turned up in a street in Fuzhou China. Ecologists haven’t a clue how the slow moving critter made its way to the Middle Kingdom but they are reckoning it took a very long time. The spotted snail consumes fruits and veggies in large amounts and can single-handedly destroy a local agricultural industry…well, maybe not.

The snail does, however, host a pathogenic bacteria and parasites that will cause those who eat fruits or veggies that the not so little fellow have touched, can become infected with tuberculosis and meningitis. Meaning, if he doesn’t eat your veggies, he’ll splatter it with infestation that’ll get you. It is suspected that he came over on an import shipment accidentally.

“All I wanna do is go back home,” he said, “And I hope they don’t make me walk.”

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The good news is that China is not likely to abuse its privilege of importing ivory from African elephants which are covered by the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) which made the decision at a meeting in Geneva. NOT! What in the world?! China joins Japan as the only two countries that are permitted to import the ivory from Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

China had to prove to CITES they had put in place adequate measures to manage regulated sales and tackle any illegal domestic ivory trade. And the number one thief of all IPR and everything else that can be copied is being trusted to keep that promise because of why?

In the future, China and Japan have to bid in a one-off auction of ivory stock piles from those four countries. And the elephants get to express their opinion when? And how? Correct me if I am wrong, but in this case wouldn’t endangered me, don’t break the tusks off the animals?

What’s going on here?