Sentences with phrase «elephant ivory sales»
Today, 32 environmental and conservation organizations appealed to Yahoo! Japan, the world largest internet ivory seller, and its major shareholder SoftBank, to halt all elephant ivory sales on Yahoo! Japan's shopping and auctions sites.
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Share our campaign poster EIA has produced this poster in the style of Rakuten's own advertising to spread awareness of the company's elephant ivory sales.
While elephant ivory sales provide astronomical funds for criminals and terrorists, the consumer ivory market is small compared to autos, solar panels and electronics.
Not exact matches
Georgia Representative Buddy Carter (R) asked this question after first noting the rampant sale of opioids and ivory from endangered elephants over Facebook.
Wednesday Questions — Latest assessment of the success of government economic policie; uninsured vehicles in regular use on UK roads; addressing the increase in elephant poaching and the illegal sale of ivory to the Far East.
In his email, Martens mentions everything from lowering the cap on greenhouse gas emissions and securing funding for long - neglected flood control structures and coastal erosion projects to banning the sale and importation of elephant and rhinoceros ivory and undertaking «one of the largest additions to the forest preserve in the state's history.»
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.
LONDON (Reuters)- Online selling and weak controls on domestic ivory sales in Japan are spurring illegal international trade in elephant tusks and contributing to a steep rise in poaching, activists said on Tuesday.
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.
From what I can find, Rakuten still allows the sale of elephant ivory and whale meat, so no sale for me.
The Parties have made it quite clear that there should be no trade in elephant ivory... any legal trade in elephant ivory incentivizes elephant poaching and illegal ivory sales.
[UPDATE 6/6: The International Fund for Animal Welfare says an investigation has found spiking sales of elephant ivory on eBay.
«Banning all ivory sales would give eBay an opportunity to become a conservation leader and take immediate action to protect elephants and other illegally traded species,» said Flocken.
We still need your help to stop Rakuten's ivory sales and help the elephants!
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.
Thailand currently bans the sale of ivory from wild elephants but permits the trade in ivory from captive domestic elephants.
Send a Tweet If you are a Twitter user, send a Tweet to Rakuten calling on it to ban all sales of elephant ivory products.
EIA president Allan Thornton said: «AEON's decision to end all ivory sales in its malls sends a strong signal to the people of Japan that domestic ivory trade in Japan must end to help protect Africa's elephants.»
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.
WASHINGTON, DC — The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) praised Japanese internet retail giant Rakuten Ichiba for its decision to end all sales of elephant ivory.
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 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.
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.
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.
Hanko sales, a major demand driver for elephant ivory, have contributed to the wide - scale resumption of elephant poaching across Africa.
• Learn more about Rakuten's decision to cease ivory sales by reading EIA's press release and associated blog post • Check out Blood e-Commerce, our 2014 report on Rakuten's ivory sales • Read about Japan's domestic ivory market and how it contributes to elephant poaching and illegal trade in our two recent reports: Japan's Illegal Ivory Trade (2015) and The Dirty Secrets of Japan's Illegal Ivory Trade (2016)
Two leading companies in Japan have committed to ending ivory sales in order to protect elephants, sending a strong signal within Japan and internationally that the trade in ivory products has no role in Japan's marketplace.
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.
Starting in 2014, EIA led a campaign calling on Rakuten to end its sales of elephant ivory.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Amazon.com has thousands of ads for elephant ivory on its Japanese website despite such sales being banned under Amazon's policies designed to protect endangered species.
Rakuten's laudable decision to ban ivory sales demonstrates the important role that Japanese industry can play in the fight to save the world's elephants.
In July, Japanese internet giant Rakuten announced a comprehensive policy change to end all sales of elephant ivory.
Ivory traders are now thought to be stockpiling elephant tusks and ivory products for lucrative sales to the hundreds of thousands of foreigners expected to attend the Beijing Olympics in the summer of 2008.
CITES actually permitted and even encouraged China's domestic market by allowing a «one - off» sale of African ivory to China in 2008 — a decision that clearly ignited the massive surge in elephant slaughter, which is growing more devastating each year.
EIA and Humane Society International researchers were shocked to discover ads promoting the sale of elephant ivory and whale products on internet giant Google and Amazon.com websites.
The sale of elephant ivory has been illegal since 1989 (although there are certain exceptions to the prohibition).
In the wake of the China sale, elephant poaching and ivory trafficking have boomed.
«Any legal trade in elephant ivory incentivizes elephant poaching and illegal ivory sales.
«While the issue of whether sales should be allowed to proceed or not has dominated much of the discussions here in Qatar, WWF and TRAFFIC believe the key driving force behind the ongoing elephant poaching is the continued existence of illegal domestic ivory markets across parts of Africa and Asia,» said Steven Broad, executive director of TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network of WWF and International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN.
Britain will ban sales of ivory in a bid to help preserve the world's dwindling elephant population,...