Sentences with phrase «domestic ivory bans»

The actions by the U.K. and Taiwan follow domestic ivory bans in mainland China and the US.

Not exact matches

Thailand currently bans the sale of ivory from wild elephants but permits the trade in ivory from captive domestic elephants.

To combat this crisis and protect elephants, major ivory markets including the United States, China, and Hong Kong have committed to taking steps to ban domestic ivory trade.

Esmond — with his indefatigable energy and efforts — made an indelible and tangible impact in that the Government of China indeed did act to fulfill its commitments to ban domestic ivory trade.

In December 2016, in no small part due to information Esmond brought to light, the Government of China announced it would ban domestic ivory trade by January 1st, 2018.

China is also enacting a domestic ban on elephant ivory, to be fully implemented by the end of 2017.

We campaign for elephant range states and ivory consumer nations like Japan to ban existing legal domestic ivory trade and crack down on poachers and organized criminals by enacting and enforcing tough laws and regulations.

«To do this, Japan must enact a total ban on domestic ivory trade and permanently end its registration scheme.»

EIA is working to ensure the strongest regulatory ban on the ivory trade is implemented and believes strong U.S. leadership is needed to focus the international dialogue on closing down all domestic ivory markets, both illegal and legal.

Despite a landmark decision at CITES CoP17 in 2016 to close down domestic ivory markets, the Government of Japan has refused to ban ivory sales or acknowledge the role Japan plays in the illegal ivory trade and poaching of elephants.

«Only a ban on Japan's domestic ivory trade and permanently ending registration of tusks can rectify the damage.»

Taiwan has introduced a bill that will ban all domestic ivory trade effective January 1, 2020.

«The Government of Japan is not only promoting trade in illegal ivory to sustain its ivory traders, but is also sabotaging international efforts to ban the domestic ivory trade by China and other nations,» said EIA president Allan Thornton.

10.10 and its implications for Japan's domestic ivory market that finds Japan's ivory market does in fact contribute to poaching and illegal trade and thus is not exempt from the 2016 ban on domestic elephant ivory markets.

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

«We have to take down the criminal syndicates behind the trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn, and enact a worldwide ban on all trade in ivory and rhino horn including domestic trade.

At the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting in September, leaders from seven African elephant range states committed or recommitted to banning ivory imports, exports and domestic trade in their countries.

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

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.

Thailand's Prime Minister repeated claims made in the past pledging to end the domestic ivory trade, yet there is no timeline for this ban and the world's elephants become increasingly endangered while policy change languishes.

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The United States banned the import and export of African ivory in 1989 but it did not ban its domestic sale.

«We hope this is only the beginning and as a next step the U.S. bans its domestic ivory trade,» said Paula Kahumbu, director of Kenya - based Wildlife Direct.

Taiwan's announced its plan to ban its domestic ivory trade starting on 1 January 2020.