Sentences with phrase «elephant ivory»

Studies of trade in elephant ivory indicate that legal markets provide a cover for trade in illegal products and render enforcement extremely difficult.

Notable resolutions include a decision urging all governments to close domestic markets for elephant ivory.

If they believe elephant ivory should be sold on the «regulated» market (although for many reason no such thing really exists)-- admit it to their animal loving supporters.

Our work provided key evidence that prompted the global community in 1989 to implement a ban on international trade in elephant ivory.

Does the design work to educate the public, inspire people to take action and work to reduce demand for elephant ivory and other illegal wildlife trade?

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Conservationists from leading African organizations are appealing to internet retail giant Rakuten to immediately cease sales of elephant ivory products during the current poaching epidemic.

In an effort to focus attention on the enormity of the wildlife trafficking crisis, the fourth largest transnational crime, the United States destroyed its stockpile of nearly 6 tons of illegal elephant ivory products on November 14th.

The definitive case for reinstating the ban on elephant ivory and trophy into the United States.

Furthermore, forensic analysis indicates that much of the more than 20 tonnes of illegal elephant ivory seized in 2009 originated in Tanzania.

In fact, much of the more than more than 20 tonnes of elephant ivory seized by law enforcement officials in 2009 originated in Tanzania, according to forensic analysis of the confiscated contraband.

Rakuten is stimulating market demand for elephant ivory by facilitating the sale of tens of thousands of ivory products.

On July 25, President Obama announced the pending release of the long - awaited «4 (d)» rule revision on African elephant ivory during his trip to Kenya.

Facebook is displaying advertisements for well - known American corporations on group pages operated by overseas wildlife traffickers illegally selling the body parts of threatened animals, including elephant ivory, rhino horn and tiger teeth.

More than 85 percent of the savanna elephant ivory seized between 2006 and 2014 was traced to East Africa, mainly from the Selous Game Reserve in southeastern Tanzania and the Niassa Reserve in adjacent northern Mozambique.

EIA is also appealing to Rakuten Ichiba and SoftBank, which owns Yahoo! Japan, to ban all online ads or auctions from offering elephant ivory for sale.

During the earlier years, 1996 - 2005, most forest elephant ivory Wasser analyzed was assigned to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, but none of the forest elephant samples after 2005 came from that area.

While elephant ivory sales provide astronomical funds for criminals and terrorists, the consumer ivory market is small compared to autos, solar panels and electronics.

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

«Any legal trade in elephant ivory incentivizes elephant poaching and illegal ivory sales.

Hong Kong customs officers have seized over one and a half tonnes of smuggled elephant ivory worth 10.9 million Hong Kong dollars (1.3 million US) shipped from Tanzania, they said Friday.

He also converts blocks of Zanzibar elephant ivory into billiard balls.

Yao Ming informs Chinese consumers that it is now illegal to buy or sell elephant ivory in the country.

The Chinese government enacted a ban on the commercial sale of elephant ivory last year, and the legal mammoth ivory market has been booming since.

On Monday, eBay announced that it will ban all online auctions of elephant ivory beginning in January.

A new automated data mining system researched and developed at the University of Kent could lead to a dramatic increase in the detection of potentially illegal online sales of elephant ivory through eBay.

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

Commercial elephant ivory in any form, including antiquities, can no longer be imported.

Tracing the origins of elephant ivory pinpoints two major poaching areas.

Genetic assignment of large seizures of elephant ivory reveals Africa's major poaching hotspots

Survived more than 30 years of work in some of the world's most dangerous places, only to be stabbed in his bed NAIROBI, Kenya ---- Nairobi police homicide detectives appear to believe that renowned elephant ivory and rhino horn trafficking investigator Esmond Bradley Martin Jr., 75, was murdered on February 5, 2018 in connection with a -LSB-...]

The investigation was prompted by an article in the October issue of National Geographic magazine that quotes Msgr. Cristóbal Garcia, a senior church official on the central Philippine island of Cebu, as telling an American reporter how to smuggle illegal elephant ivory figurines into the United States.

Here, all chips and pieces of rhino and elephant ivory recovered from poachers, poached animals, culling programmes, cases of natural death and, of late, elephants routinely slaughtered to feed the public at government functions are received, registered and issued with serial numbers.

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.

A 2014 EIA investigation found that Rakuten's website supported more than 28,000 ads for elephant ivory items and offered a range of ivory products for sale including whole tusks and musical instrument accessories, though the vast majority of ivory products were hanko name seals.

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.

Conservationists have long argued that permitting legal sales of elephant ivory masks and encourages poaching and illegal sales.

The technique could be used to age confiscated animal parts — to determine, say, whether African elephant ivory was harvested before or after the 1989 trade ban.

«While the IUCN continues to recognize only one species, such deep genetic divergence makes it very easy to distinguish forest from savanna elephant ivory,» said Georgiadis.

We urge Rakuten affiliates and citizens worldwide to press Rakuten to ban ads offering elephant ivory.»

Legal domestic ivory markets provide major cover for selling illegal elephant ivory, and undercut effective enforcement.

WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) praised AEON's official announcement that it will phase out all sales of elephant ivory by tenants in all of AEON's numerous malls across Japan by March 2020.

More than 85 percent of the forest elephant ivory seized between 2006 and 2014 was traced to the central African Tridom protected ecosystem that spans northeastern Gabon, northwestern Republic of Congo and southeastern Cameroon, and the adjacent reserve in southwestern Central African Republic.

While elephant ivory and exotic birds comprised the bulk of online sales, about seven percent of listings featured other extremely rare species.

Hong Kong has seized nearly two tonnes of elephant ivory worth about $ 1.7 million hidden in a shipment from Malaysia and detained a local man over the haul, customs authorities said Wednesday.