Sentences with phrase «from ivory seizures»
Most notably, Parties will be required to submit DNA samples from ivory seizures of more than 500 kg to an appropriate facility for source analysis.
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Two seizures of savanna elephant ivory, in 2002 and 2007, came from Zambia, but the country was not represented in any of the samples after 2007.
One of the biggest seizures contained large amounts of ivory from both hotspots, suggesting a link between the major dealers operating in these two areas.
Around 90 percent of ivory seized by law enforcement comes from African elephants that died less than three years before seizure, a study of ivory samples finds.
Working with Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization, Wasser and colleagues have now sampled DNA from 28 large seizures of African ivory — each more than a half - ton — that police and custom officers had confiscated in Africa and Asia between 1996 and 2014.
The study revealed that 96 percent of ivory seizures originated from four geographical areas, and from just two after 2007.
The number of seizures of more than a ton of ivory increased from 17 between 1989 and 1997 to 32 between 1998 and 2006.