Sentences with phrase «for ivory ban»
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It points to the environment secretary's crackdown on sales of ivory, his plans to ban new petrol and diesel cars by 2040 and his interest in a deposit scheme for drinks bottles and cans.
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.»
Although eBay introduced a ban in June 2007 on sales of ivory between countries, transactions involving ivory have continued, reveals the International Fund for Animal Welfare, which released its report «Killing with Keystrokes» on Tuesday.
«We simply can't ensure that ivory listed for sale on eBay is in compliance with the complex regulations that govern its sale,» he wrote on his blog last night announcing the new, more comprehensive ban.
Beijing's ban on ivory is very welcome and could save the African elephant, but it must do the same for rhinos, pangolins and more, says Richard Schiffman
Atkins has shown her support for animal welfare by creating a bill that strengthened the ban on importing and selling ivory and rhino horns or products in California.
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.
«EBay is in a unique position to set an example for the rest of the industry by implementing a comprehensive ban on ivory,» said Flocken.
Allan Thornton, president of the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), said, «We appeal to SoftBank leaders Masayoshi Son and Nikesh Arora to protect the elephants for future generations by banning ivory trade on Yahoo! Japan.
«The ivory traders should have been thinking about what to do with the ivory because this trend of banning ivory has been discussed internationally for a very long time,» Under Secretary for the Environment, Christine Loh told RTHK's Mike Weeks.
Step three will ban possession of all ivory for commercial purposes, including those obtained between 1976 and 1990.
We campaign for elephant range states and ivory consumer nations like Japan to ban existing legal domestic ivory trade and crack down on poachers and organized criminals by enacting and enforcing tough laws and regulations.
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.
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.
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.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Wildlife advocates expressed bitter disappointment today at the refusal of international conglomerate, SoftBank Corp., to ban advertisements for elephant ivory and whale and dolphin products on Yahoo! Japan — the dominant company in SoftBank's internet division with revenues of nearly USD 4 billion in 2012.
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.
Today Yahoo! Japan lists almost 8,000 ads for elephant ivory, which have tripled in number since March after Amazon and Google enforced a ban and removed all ads for elephant ivory and whale products from their Japanese shopping sites.
Thailand's Prime Minister repeated claims made in the past pledging to end the domestic ivory trade, yet there is no timeline for this ban and the world's elephants become increasingly endangered while policy change languishes.
Ivory destruction ceremonies have been a litmus test for where a country stands on the ivory trade ever since Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi torched 13 tons of ivory in 1989, setting the stage for a vote to ban international trade in ivory by parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
Liberia has lost 95 % of its elephants to poaching since the 1980s — when the international ban on trade in ivory went into effect, and prior to which half of Africa's elephants had already been killed for their tusks.
Ever since 1986, the international trade of whale meat has been banned between countries that signed that year's document produced by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES (CITES was in the news a bunch earlier this year too, but for failing to protect the trade of just about every endangered species imaginable — at least they banned ivory).