Sentences with phrase «for illegal ivory»

Now, the good news: The government in China, which is by far the biggest market for illegal ivory, is taking strong measures to close its borders to elephant tusks.

«It appears that JWRC knew fraudulent documents were being presented by Raftel to gain legal status for illegal ivory but allowed Raftel to carry out registration anyway.»

Now they are asking you to design a way to display the crushed ivory so that it raises awareness of the illegal wildlife trade and reduces demand for illegal ivory.

«If we are to conserve remaining wild populations of elephants, we must close all markets because, under current levels of corruption, they can not be controlled in a way that does not provide opportunities for illegal ivory being laundered into legal markets,» said the paper's author, Elizabeth Bennett, WCS Vice President for Species Conservation.

Not exact matches

Nearly two tons of trinkets, statues and jewelry crafted from the tusks of at least 100 slaughtered elephants are heading for a rock crusher in New York City's Central Park to demonstrate the state's commitment to smashing the illegal ivory trade.

Millions of dollars of ivory was destroyed in Central Park on Thursday as the state fights for elephants and against illegal ivory trade.

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

The illegal slaughter of African elephants for ivory is now worse than it was at its peak in the 1980s.

Genetic evidence could prove key in halting the illegal slaughter of Africa's elephants for their ivory tusks

A search for items listed as «ivory» throws up a multitude of items — including ivory - coloured wedding dresses — making the task of tracking down illegal products akin to finding a needle in a haystack.

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

At the moment, identifying illegal elephant ivory being sold online is a laborious, tedious and expensive task, even for experts.

Once illegal ivory has entered into the legal trade, it is difficult or impossible for enforcement officers to know what is legal and what is not.

«As ivory becomes rarer, the price increases, leading to greater incentives for elephant poachers and illegal stockpilers of ivory,» he said.

Law enforcement agencies and conservationist are expected to make use of the system — developed by researchers from the University's Centre for Cyber Security — in their ongoing battle against illegal ivory sales.

The EIA said between 2005 and 2010, illegal ivory accounted for up to 87 percent of ivory hankos produced in Japan.

And the United States has emerged as one of the world's largest markets for ivory and other wildlife products, both legal and illegal.

For a few years, poaching declined, herds began recovering, and in 1997 USA Today proclaimed that «the illegal ivory trade has been virtually wiped out.»

The funding of Boko Haram's atrocities by the illegal ivory trade show that poaching is not just a problem for conservationists, but for all of us

People in New York City's Times Square will witness plumes of pulverized bone erupt as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service crushes one ton of confiscated ivory Friday to protest the illegal poaching of African elephants for the ivory trade.

More than 20,000 African elephants are killed every year for their ivory, according to an analysis by CITES MIKE Program (Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants).

Within the past week, Thailand officials seized seven tons of ivory, representing the slaughter of hundreds of African elephants for illegal trade.

Before Chinese demand for ivory began driving the black market and illegal killing of tens of thousands of elephants each year, it was Japan's market for hanko, personal seals used to sign contracts, that fueled the ivory trade.

In 2015 sought «endangered» protections for Africa's savannah and forest elephants, with both species vanishing due to the illegal ivory trade.

In addition to fueling global demand for ivory — both legal and illegal — auctions flood the market with legal ivory, making it easier to sell the essentially identical products of poaching.

• Thirty of 37 Japanese ivory traders contacted by an undercover investigator offered to engage in some form of illegal activity to buy, sell, or fraudulently register a tusk that did not qualify for registration

Esmond must have been thrilled — and could certainly have viewed as a personal and professional victory — when the Chinese government news agency began to publicly call out Japan - the world's second largest consumer of ivory for taking no action against its own flourishing illegal ivory trade.

Great news for whales, but Rakuten is still carrying ads for elephant ivory products, many originating from illegal ivory poached in...

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

These scientists are in agreement that the illegal killing of elephants for their ivory is a primary cause of these declines.

The resolution calls for the closure of domestic ivory markets in countries with legal markets linked to illegal trade or poaching.

«Africa's elephants are paying for Japan's shocking failure to enact its legal commitments to enforce rigorous controls to prevent illegal ivory trade,» said Allan Thornton, President of EIA.

He claimed the Japanese demand for ivory would continue unchanged and illegal trade would escalate out of control — a theory utterly disproved in the two years after the ivory ban was agreed later that year.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police announced on June 20th that it had charged the president of antique company, Raftel, and 27 customers with violating Japan's Law for the Conservation of Endangered Species (LCES) for illegal trade in unregistered ivory.

«Japan's ivory tusk registration scheme is a poacher's paradise, allowing vast amounts of illegal tusks to be legalized for sale on Japan's domestic market,» said EIA president, Allan Thornton.

The Government of Japan has announced its intention to launch an expanded tusk registration campaign nationwide that will increase demand for ivory in Japan, while legalizing large amounts of illegal ivory.

EIA first reported in 2015 that Japan's tusk registration scheme was rife with fraudulent declarations that allowed undocumented illegal ivory tusks to be legalized for sale onto Japan's domestic market.

The Tokyo Police announced on June 20th that it had charged the president of antique company, Raftel, and 27 customers with violating Japan's Law for the Conservation of Endangered Species (LCES) for illegal trade in unregistered ivory.

WASHINGTON, DC - The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is calling for the closure of Japan's domestic ivory market after new evidence of illegal trade in ivory tusks was linked to the Ministry of Environment's tusk registration scheme.

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.

For example, in 2011 Takaichi Inc., Japan's largest manufacturer of ivory hanko name seals, was exposed for purchasing between 500 and 1600 illegal raw tusFor example, in 2011 Takaichi Inc., Japan's largest manufacturer of ivory hanko name seals, was exposed for purchasing between 500 and 1600 illegal raw tusfor purchasing between 500 and 1600 illegal raw tusks.

EIA will be submitting comments on the proposed rule and encourages others to weigh in, letting FWS know how important and appreciated strong U.S. regulations are to counter the illegal ivory trade, reduce the demand for ivory, and devalue ivory as a commodity.

LaBudde continued to expose other forms of wildlife slaughter, including the illegal killing of walrus in Alaska for the ivory trade.

It's not been surprising to find that amount of ivory in a single illegal shipment or two bound for China.

So the best outcome of this new test may lie in the creation of indisputable certificates of legitimacy for historic ivory pieces, which make the difference between legal and illegal trade transparent for buyers.

Forest elephants in Kenya (Meisjesanne via Flickr) Shy and reclusive, the forest elephants of Congo, Central Africa are being pushed to the brink of extinction by the loss of habitat and illegal poaching for the ivory and bushmeat trades.

«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.

There, John Hart, a conservationist who has worked in Congo for two decades described how during the country's recent civil war (1998 — 2003)-- said to be the most deadly conflict since World War II — illegal bushmeat and ivory were among commodities exchanged for arms and ammunition.

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

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?