Sentences with phrase «commercial ivory trade»

If China were to ban its domestic commercial ivory trade in a timely fashion, it would be a critically important contribution towards eliminating the illegal ivory trade and reducing the slaughter of Africa's elephants.

The U.S. National Strategy on Combatting Wildlife Trafficking and its accompanying Implementation Plan were released, featuring plans to shut down the U.S. commercial ivory trade through a series of administrative actions to ban ivory trade within the United States.

States are also taking action to combat ivory trafficking — New York and New Jersey have passed legislation banning commercial ivory trade while other states are in the process of passing similar legislation to do their part to protect elephants.

EIA hopes that parallel domestic commercial ivory trade bans are prioritized in order to protect elephants.

Last year, some 24 tons of ivory was seized around the world — the product of an estimated 2,500 elephants — making it the worst year for elephant poaching since an international ban on commercial ivory trading began in 1989, according to Traffic, a wildlife trade monitoring network.

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The new directive is particularly aimed at stopping the commercial trade in elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn.

In response, FWS will impose a ban on the commercial trade of elephant ivory within the United States, including resale and exports.

The U.S. acted on its pledge to end commercial ivory sales by announcing a «near - total ban» on the commercial trade of elephant ivory.

The ivory trade is the commercial, often illegal trade inthe ivory tusks of the hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal, [1] mammoth, [2] andmost commonly, Asian and African elephants.

Last month, the Chinese government announced it would «strictly control ivory processing and trade until the commercial processing and sale of ivory and its products are eventually halted,» but details and a timeline have yet to be announced, leaving this statement and intent ambiguous.