Sentences with phrase «elephant poaching»

The Staggering Scale of Elephant Poaching The level of elephant poaching in Africa set a record high in 2011, with just the ivory seized by law enforcement equaling that of 4000 elephants.

«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.

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

Delegates were persuaded to reject Tanzania's proposals by evidence presented during the meeting that challenged Tanzania's elephant management and law enforcement capabilities to control elephant poaching and illegal ivory trade.

In June, a government minister in Tanzania declared that elephant poaching in his country had become a national disaster.

«Since 2008, elephant poaching has been on the rise, according to Save the Elephants and the Kenya Wildlife Service.»

«The news is likely to foster hopes for an eventual end to the elephant poaching crisis in Africa,» writes Denver.

In the wake of the China sale, elephant poaching and ivory trafficking have boomed.

Through our investigations we trace and expose the illegal ivory trade — tracking elephant poaching in Africa, monitoring transit activity, and revealing the illegal markets and flawed legal systems that sustain black market trade in consumer countries.

The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has been investigating ivory trafficking out of Tanzania since the current upsurge in elephant poaching began in 2006 and in November 2014 released its landmark Vanishing Point report, which revealed that Chinese - led criminal gangs are conspiring with corrupt Tanzanian officials to traffic huge amounts of ivory.

The current elephant poaching epidemic is out of control.

Today is World Elephant Day, and we at EIA are celebrating U.S. leadership to combat the elephant poaching epidemic and the steps the United States is taking to ensure our own market doesn't contribute to the decline of elephants...

The devastating attack is believed to be revenge for recent initiatives to fight illegal elephant poaching and gold mining in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve.

Members join us at the CORE: Club in New York City for a film screening and panel discussion highlighting the elephant poaching crisis in 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)

Hanko sales, a major demand driver for elephant ivory, have contributed to the wide - scale resumption of elephant poaching across Africa.

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.

Using every tool at our disposal, EIA is committed to ending the elephant poaching epidemic.

EIA's investigations trace and expose the illegal ivory trade — we track elephant poaching in Africa, monitor transit activity, and reveal the illegal markets and flawed legal systems that sustain black market trade in consumer countries.

In 1989, EIA's groundbreaking exposé revealed rampant elephant poaching and a booming global ivory trade, perpetrated by a network of criminals and corrupt officials in Africa and in importing nations.

In 1989, in response to the first global elephant poaching crisis of the 1970s and 80s, the international trade in ivory was banned.

The New York Times and others have consistently and compellingly highlighted the horrific levels of elephant poaching occurring daily.

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.

Environmentalists said they hoped that the widely publicized event, which was attended by state officials, foreign diplomats and wildlife campaigners, would raise awareness within China of the dramatic scale of elephant poaching.

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.

TRAFFIC's global elephant and rhino programme leader describes the current rhino and elephant poaching crisis, and the illegal trade in their horn and ivory that is driving this.

Documentaries There are several docs that got a boost in Toronto: Amanda Knox; The Ivory Game about elephant poaching; Before the Flood, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio.

Bigelow also directed and partnered with Annapurna on the animated short LAST DAYS, about illegal elephant poaching and the ivory trade.

An $ 80 million effort to clamp down on Africa's rampant elephant poaching was unveiled today in New York.

While chasing baboon scat, Wasser stumbled upon elephant poaching.

«The current African elephant poaching crisis requires an urgent and swift response before populations are wiped out.

The WCS campaign focuses on: securing effective U.S. moratorium laws; bolstering elephant protection with additional funding; and educating the public about the link between ivory consumption and the elephant poaching crisis.

«Evidence from ivory DNA identifies two main elephant poaching hotspots.»

«The historic Kenyan burn aims to send a powerful message against elephant poaching and the illegal ivory trade, yet there is no evidence, so far, that these actions help reduce poaching,» Dr Biggs said.

Media coverage of the torching of huge caches of ivory presented a strong message against elephant poaching and ivory trade, but many of those who needed to hear it most may not have received it, an international study has found.

We congratulate China's government for showing the world that elephant poaching and illegal ivory consumption is unacceptable.

Heading to the north of Mozambique to photograph elephant poaching, Jabruson came across a group of village children with a tethered yellow baboon.

Because of this perceived «failure» to stop elephant poaching altogether, the report implies that the ban is failing in its task to conserve elephants.

The report also states that a fall in national law enforcement budgets, which cover funds for activities against poaching, «has probably been the most influential factor affecting levels of elephant poaching» throughout Africa.

Even though other countries are clamping down on illegal ivory, the unconstrained trade in Japan may offer loopholes for criminals to keep selling ivory — fuelling elephant poaching

Ivory seizures around the world hit record levels last year, with elephant poaching in Africa declining for a fifth year in a row, a report says.

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.

Here's the context: elephant poaching has reached new epidemic levels.

In the most deadly of these events, in 2013, a single elephant poached and then laced with poison near Namibia's Bwabwata National Park killed nearly 600 vultures.

In almost all parts of Africa, elephant numbers have plummeted, due largely to the demand for ivory, with an estimated 96 elephants poached each day in 2012.

She kept a log of all the reported elephants poached around Kenya at the time, and shared information on hundreds of poached animals.

Not exact matches

Due to excessive poaching for their ivory, elephant populations all over the world have noticeably been selecting mates against greater tusk size, largely due to the big tuskers being killed off, but that doesn't matter.

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-LSB-...] speaking on protecting Kenyan Elephants from poaching.

The DSWT organization fosters baby elephants who have been separated from their mothers due to poaching or from the loss of their natural habitat due to human conflict, drought or deforestation.