Sentences with phrase «elephant poaching crisis»
«The news is likely to foster hopes for an eventual end to the elephant poaching crisis in Africa,» writes Denver.
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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.
In 1989, in response to the first global elephant poaching crisis of the 1970s and 80s, the international trade in ivory was banned.
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.
«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.
Not exact matches
Tracking skills and tools are in demand to stop elephant and rhino poaching, which, regrettably, have reached crisis proportions.
By 1985 the elephants had gone through a massive decline due, down to an estimated 4,803, during the massive ivory poaching crisis sweeping Africa.
African elephants are in crisis, facing an onslaught of poaching for the valuable ivory in their tusks.
Over the past five years or so, as the poaching of elephants has swelled to record numbers, environmentalists and researchers have pointed a finger firmly at China's ravenous appetite for ivory as the main cause for what is now widely described as a crisis.
More than 30,000 elephants are being killed each year for their ivory, fueling a poaching crisis in many African countries.
More than 30,000 iconic elephants are slaughtered annually to feed the world's appetite for their ivory tusks — and this poaching crisis is escalating.
Poaching and trafficking of iconic species such as elephants and rhinos are recognized to be at crisis levels, devastating populations worldwide.
New York passed an ivory trade ban in 2014, which has helped spur action to protect elephants from the current poaching crisis.