Sentences with phrase «as elephant ivory»

There is a deep cultural heritage and history around wildlife products such as elephant ivory and rhino horn in some parts of the world.

Not exact matches

Millions of dollars of ivory was destroyed in Central Park on Thursday as the state fights for elephants and against illegal ivory trade.

Although African elephants are listed as an endangered species, with between 500,000 and 600,000 left in the wild, some African countries continue to push for legalizing trade in ivory tusks.

And as long as there is a form of legal ivory trade, conservationists fear the illegal elephant ivory trade will continue.

One of Kenya's most adored elephants, known as Satao and with remarkable tusks, was killed for his ivory in Tsavo East National Park in May 2014 - devastating conservationists and tourists alike.

They are largely losing to ivory poachers, as attested by the latest available data on Africa's two species of elephant, both threatened: savanna elephant populations fell 30 percent between 2007 and 2014, and those of forest elephants plummeted by 62 percent between 2002 and 2011.

As a result, the ivory trade is a significant threat to elephants» survival.

«As ivory becomes rarer, the price increases, leading to greater incentives for elephant poachers and illegal stockpilers of ivory,» he said.

U.S. President Barack Obama in February announced new restrictions on the commercial import of African elephant ivory, as well as on what sport hunters can bring back to the country.

Or it could be used as part of a series of forensic techniques to separate ivory obtained during legal culls — necessary to control some elephant large populations — from illegal poaching, says Elias Sideras - Haddad of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, who proposed a similar dating technique in 2001.

It named Japanese website Rakuten Ichiba as the world's top marketplace for elephant ivory, citing more than 28,000 advertisements for products.

According to a 2013 study by the University of Washington, the annual number of African elephants being slaughtered to supply the illegal ivory trade is estimated to be as high as 50,000, or roughly one sixth of the continent's remaining elephant population.

Other elephant watchdogs worry that DNA tracking will prove too effective and spur more ivory trading by permitting legal sales — just as the South Africans hoped.

People in New York City's Times Square will witness plumes of pulverized bone erupt as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service crushes one ton of confiscated ivory Friday to protest the illegal poaching of African elephants for the ivory trade.

Although they aren't as reliable a source of ivory as their African cousins (a significant proportion of male Asian elephants are tuskless), ivory poaching remains a concern.

Sometimes the human impact has been as direct as the bite of chain saws toppling ancient trees to make way for cattle pasture or nets corralling schools of giant bluefin tuna for the sushi trade or gunshots felling elephants for their ivory.

Operation COBRA II results in the seizure of 36 rhino horns, three metric tons of elephant ivory, 10,000 turtles, and 1,000 skins of protected species, as well as 10,000 European eels and more than 200 metric tons of rosewood logs, dealing a huge blow to criminals involved in the highly lucrative trade in illegal wildlife.

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With its nearly unlimited scope, largely unregulated access and relative anonymity, the Internet has emerged as the preferred method for the illicit trade of elephant ivory and other endangered animals and their parts.

Over the past five years or so, as the poaching of elephants has swelled to record numbers, environmentalists and researchers have pointed a finger firmly at China's ravenous appetite for ivory as the main cause for what is now widely described as a crisis.

Advocacy groups such as WildAid have, however, shown that traders often use loopholes within Hong Kong's laws to re-stock their «legal» ivory stockpiles with illegal ivory from recently poached elephants.

But the finalized rule — a revision of the Endangered Species Act — closes this loophole and limits the legal trade in elephant ivory only to antiques that are over a century old, as well as certain pre-existing manufactured products that contain less than 200 grams of ivory.

Africa's elephants are once again in crisis due to the explosive demand for ivory as an investment commodity from consumers in China, as well as other countries including Japan, Thailand, and even the United States.

Closing ivory markets eliminates loopholes for laundering illicit ivory and reduces the demand for ivory as part of the global effort to stop elephant poaching and ivory trafficking.

In Kenya the problem as particularly acute among the elephant and rhino populations who are prized for their ivory tusks and horns.

The letter from scientists commends the proposed rule as a way to help guarantee that the U.S. is not contributing to the global trafficking in elephant ivory.

The move came after the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), in conjunction with Humane Society International (HSI), launched the report Blood e-Commerce on March 18 exposing Rakuten as the world's biggest online marketplace for elephant ivory and whale meat products, and the day after UN International Court of Justice ruled against Japan's fraudulent «scientific» whaling in the Antarctic.

China has pledged to shut down all trade in ivory by the end of 2017, a move that conservationists are hailing as a «game changer» for elephant conservation.

China, with its 1.3 billion people, must ban all domestic ivory trade as it threatens to push the African elephant to extinction.

«As a society, we've moved beyond killing elephants for their ivory in order to make piano keys, and we certainly don't need to decimate the world's rainforests to decorate guitars.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The United States will destroy its six - ton stockpile of elephant ivory as a way to combat wildlife trafficking, an international fight that often has law enforcement outgunned by well - financed crime syndicates, White House panelists said on Monday.

Before elephants and other species used as ivory sources were recognized as endangered, trinkets like the carved ebony elephants with tiny ivory tusks (pictured at top) were common, and legal.

While poaching has declined a bit as of late, some 20,000 African elephants are still slaughtered for their tusks each year, much in part to meet ivory demand from Asia, particularly China, notes Simon Denyer in The Washington Post.

It's also analogous to killing elephants for their ivory and rhinos for their horns: the rhino horns being ground up and marketed as traditional medicine, pushing the price to about $ 3,600 per ounce and decimating the species.