Sentences with phrase «illegal ivory poached»

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

Threatened by loss of habitat and illegal ivory poaching, the African Elephant is currently on the verge of extinction.

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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 primitive Waliangulu tribe of 250 to 300 people had been badly exploited by illegal ivory agents in Mombasa, who paid them a pittance to poach the elephants.

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

«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.

LONDON (Reuters)- Online selling and weak controls on domestic ivory sales in Japan are spurring illegal international trade in elephant tusks and contributing to a steep rise in poaching, activists said on Tuesday.

Or it could be used as part of a series of forensic techniques to separate ivory obtained during legal culls — necessary to control some elephant large populations — from illegal poaching, says Elias Sideras - Haddad of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, who proposed a similar dating technique in 2001.

The results confirm what many conservationists have suspected: Long - term stockpiles don't contribute much ivory to illegal trade, and poached ivory quickly ends up in illegal markets.

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

But there is an intimate connection: like many terrorist organisations in Africa, Boko Haram is funded by sales of illegal ivory (see «Ivory poaching funds most war and terrorism in Africa «-RRB-.

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.

Samples of confiscated illegal ivory should be taken before destroying stockpiles to allow forensic investigators to trace poaching and trafficking routes

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

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.

Our sister company Ashnil Mara Camp participated in the International Global Elephant Walk on 4th October in the Masai Mara to raise awareness against poaching and illegal ivory trade.

This exhibition highlights poaching and the illegal ivory trade, and how two of Africa's most grand animals, the elephant and the rhinoceros, teeter on the brink of extinction.

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.

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.

WHile poaching exotic animals and protected animals is abhorrent it is not always true that ivory is or should be illegal.

Advocacy groups such as WildAid have, however, shown that traders often use loopholes within Hong Kong's laws to re-stock their «legal» ivory stockpiles with illegal ivory from recently poached elephants.

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.

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

• 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 Tradeillegal trade in our two recent reports: Japan's Illegal Ivory Trade (2015) and The Dirty Secrets of Japan's Illegal Ivory TradeIllegal Ivory Trade (2015) and The Dirty Secrets of Japan's Illegal Ivory TradeIllegal Ivory Trade (2016)

Despite a landmark decision at CITES CoP17 in 2016 to close down domestic ivory markets, the Government of Japan has refused to ban ivory sales or acknowledge the role Japan plays in the illegal ivory trade and poaching of elephants.

TOKYO — Japan's ivory tusk registration system is awash with fraud, fueling illegal ivory trade and undermining international action to protect Africa's disappearing elephants under pressure from intense ivory poaching.

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.

JOHANNESBURG — The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is calling on Japan to close its domestic ivory market because it contributes to illegal trade and the poaching of Africa's elephants.

In 2016 at CITES CoP17, Parties unanimously approved amendments to Resolution Conf.10.10 (Rev. CoP17), «Trade in elephant specimens,» that included recommending urgently closing domestic ivory markets that contribute to poaching or illegal trade.

Last October 180 member nations of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) agreed unanimously to close domestic ivory markets where they contribute to illegal trade or poaching.

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.

Even before the ban has officially begun, confiscation of illegal ivory flooding into the country has dropped by 80 percent in 2016, and poaching has declined in Kenya, Knights says.

Leading experts fighting ivory poaching recognize that success lies in stopping demand as much as it rests on seizing large shipments of illegal ivory.

Up until now, proving the provenance of ivory and ivory articles has been outside of the budgets of organizations policing illegal poaching activity in failing attempts to stop the elephant slaughter.

Interestingly, the legal ivory trade in China — which relied on stockpiled goods collected before the global ban — has inadvertently worked to harbor a booming illegal trade that has fueled poaching.

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.

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.

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

«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.

«Poaching and illegal ivory markets in central and western Africa must be effectively suppressed before any further ivory sales take place,» said Elisabeth McLellan, species program manager with WWF International.