Sentences with phrase «in 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.

«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.

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.

Not exact matches

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At 10; 30 a.m., the state DEC destroys nearly two tons of illegal ivory confiscated through state enforcement efforts in Central Park, to send «a clear message that the state will not tolerate wildlife crime that threatens to wipe out Africa's elephants,» Manhattan.

The DEC is planning a public crushing of illegal ivory tusks, trinkets, statues, jewelry and other decorative items it has confiscated over the years in Central Park on Aug. 3 at 10:30 a.m.

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

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

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.

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

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».

Money from illegal ivory has helped to bankroll virtually every African conflict in recent decades, from groups like Boko Haram to civil wars

This surge was directly correlated to a more than quadrupling of local black - market ivory prices paid to poachers and tripling in the volume and number of illegal ivory seizures through Kenyan ports of transit.

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.

As part of the study, two experts manually classified items on sale in the antiques section of eBay, looking at the type of ivory and whether it was potentially legal or illegal.

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.

But research from Dr David Roberts, Senior Lecturer in Biodiversity Conservation at the University's Durrell Institute of Conservation, and Dr Julio Hernandez - Castro, Lecturer in Computing at the University's School of Computing, shows how the automated system can mimic human expert classification of potentially illegal elephant ivory — but at a fraction of the cost and thousands of times faster.

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.

«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.

«Research could play major role in curbing illegal ivory sales.»

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

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.»

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.

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.

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.

«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.

He made the comment in announcing guilty pleas from two dealers and their businesses caught in New York City with upwards of a ton of illegal ivory goods with a retail value estimated at $ 2 million.

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.

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

• 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

In this case, airport scanners revealed the presence of hidden rhino horn and elephant ivory, but conservationists have no way of telling how many illegal goods slip under the radar.

On June 19th, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service crushed a ton of seized illegal ivory in New York's Times Square, and last week top officials from the United States and China focused on combating wildlife trafficking at the annual Strategic & Economic Dialogue.

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

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.