Sentences with phrase «illegal trade in ivory»

Presented to CITES delegates in Doha last week, the analysis shows that the illegal trade in ivory, which has been increasing in volume since 2004, moved sharply upward in 2009.

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.

Media reports indicate that the Tokyo Police believe illegal trade in ivory is «rampant» in Japan.

But there's another one to add, says Dot Earth reader Margaret McCarthy: the destructive illegal trade in ivory.

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

Declining wildlife populations has exacerbated child slavery in Ghana, Somali piracy and the illegal ivory trade

It would have been better if the authors had been more cautious in their subsequent analysis, but unfortunately their report concludes that the «international ivory trade ban has not halted the illegal offtake [killing] of elephants».

University of Washington biologist Samuel Wasser is a pioneer in using DNA evidence to trace the origin of illegal ivory and help police an international trade that is decimating African elephant populations.

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.

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.»

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.

In spite of a global ban, the illegal ivory trade has exploded, with most of the demand coming from Asian countries, particularly China.

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

UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon commended this innovative joint initiative between the two partner UN Agencies: «The illegal trade in goods and services often funds unscrupulous people involved in human trafficking, the illicit ivory trade and other areas that cause immense suffering and destruction.

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.

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.

Operation COBRA II results in the seizure of 36 rhino horns, three metric tons of elephant ivory, 10,000 turtles, and 1,000 skins of protected species, as well as 10,000 European eels and more than 200 metric tons of rosewood logs, dealing a huge blow to criminals involved in the highly lucrative trade in illegal wildlife.

«EBay's affiliates in countries including Germany, Australia, France and China have virtually eliminated the illegal ivory trade on their websites thanks to severe restrictions and outright bans,» said Jeff Flocken, Washington, DC, Office Director.

Msgr. Achilles Dakay, the archdiocese's media liaison officer, said Garcia's suspension came months before the priest was implicated by a National Geographic article in illegal trade of ivory in the Philippines.

By facilitating the continued trade of illegal ivory and animal parts, eBay remains a tacit participant in this illicit activity to which thousand of elephants fall victim each year.

EIA strives to eliminate illegal ivory trade and increase enforcement to protect elephants, both domestically and in range and consuming countries.

EIA's investigations into the illegal ivory trade have demonstrated repeatedly that any trade in ivory is incompatible with the conservation of 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.

We are firm in our resolve to combat all trade in elephant ivory: illegal and legal, international and domestic.

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

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 Trade (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 Trade (Trade (2015) and The Dirty Secrets of Japan's Illegal Ivory TradeIllegal Ivory Trade (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.

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.

Born out of the necessity of establishing a U.S. presence from its London sister - office, EIA US began as co-founders Allan Thornton and David Currey uncovered illegal ivory trade flows from Africa through the Middle East to supply markets in Asia.

Dave is a founder of and former Executive Director of EIA UK who undertook extensive undercover investigations into illegal ivory trade and the criminal syndicates behind them in Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Dubai - United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

Gambling on Extinction is a powerful documentary that explores the complexities of the illegal trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn, from the African sources to Asian markets.

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.

«The Government of Japan is not only promoting trade in illegal ivory to sustain its ivory traders, but is also sabotaging international efforts to ban the domestic ivory trade by China and other nations,» said EIA president Allan Thornton.

«To show it is serious about stopping its illegal ivory trade problem, Japan needs to cease all registration of whole tusks immediately as a step in closing its domestic ivory market,» said Grabiel.

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.

Six Japanese ivory trading companies that sell ivory via the popular shopping site Yahoo! Japan auctions offered to engage in illegal activities to buy, sell, acquire, or fraudulently register an unregistered ivory tusk.

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.

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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 poacTrade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) agreed unanimously to close domestic ivory markets where they contribute to illegal trade or poactrade or poaching.

Often represented by pro-ivory trade voices as being the best - controlled ivory trade in Asia, Japan's domestic ivory trade system is in reality riddled with loopholes that can be used to launder illegal ivory.

The world anxiously anticipates the United States» proposed ivory rule and remaining details of the ivory trade ban, particularly because the world's leading trader in illegal ivory, China, is apparently awaiting U.S. action before banning its own ivory trade.

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.

If China were to ban its domestic commercial ivory trade in a timely fashion, it would be a critically important contribution towards eliminating the illegal ivory trade and reducing the slaughter of Africa's elephants.

France became the first European country to destroy its stocks of illegal ivory on Thursday in a dramatic warning to those involved in the lucrative wildlife trade that is endangering elephants and other species.

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