Sentences with phrase «in ivory tusks»

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.

Although African elephants are listed as an endangered species, with between 500,000 and 600,000 left in the wild, some African countries continue to push for legalizing trade in ivory tusks.

Not exact matches

National Geographic Fellow and Chief Correspondent Bryan Christy spent over a year tracking African ivory poachers through GPS hidden in fake elephant tusks.

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.

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) today issued a new report charging that users of eBay.com are behind two thirds of the online trade in endangered animals worldwide, specifically, ivory made from tusks ripped from poached elephants.

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

One of Kenya's most adored elephants, known as Satao and with remarkable tusks, was killed for his ivory in Tsavo East National Park in May 2014 - devastating conservationists and tourists alike.

Each year more than 30,000 elephants are killed for their ivory by poachers in Africa to satisfy demand in Asia where raw tusks sell for up to $ 2100 per kilogram.

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.

African elephants are in crisis, facing an onslaught of poaching for the valuable ivory in their tusks.

In June 2002 Singapore customs agents seized the largest haul of contraband ivory ever: 6 1/2 tons, including 535 tusks and 42,000 ivory cylinders used to make hanko, prestigious signature stamps that can fetch hundreds of dollars each.

For example, engineering biomarkers into tusks to track poaching, or more radically to alter tusks in a way that make them valueless to the ivory trade, which would allow male elephants to keep their large tusks — important indicators of good genes for mating.

«A Burnt Ship» catalogs the spilled belongings from a ship's hold («sunken masks, / god's horn, perfume, ivory tusks, / market dust»), before erupting in the expected, yet still unsettling conclusion that «all were lost, all were destroyed.»

In addition, works that incorporate materials and parts acquired from the killing of endangered species (e.g., feathers, tusks) or elephant or mammoth ivory do not qualify.

In addition, works that incorporate materials and or parts acquired from the killing of endangered species (e.g., feathers, tusks), elephant or mammoth ivory, dried or silk flower arrangements, bonsai, embellished commercially - made objects (e.g., t - shirts, note cards, etc.) do not qualify.

On Monday, however, the Chinese authorities received widespread plaudits when, in a first for the country, they destroyed more than six tons of confiscated ivory ornaments and tusks in Dongguan, a city in the southern province of Guangdong, which is a major hub for the ivory trade.

• That most of Japan's ivory tusk imports dating from before the 1989 ban on international trade in elephant ivory were from poached elephants.

During the summer of 2015, investigators undertook an undercover survey of ivory traders in Japan in order to gain a better understanding of the extent to which loopholes in the whole tusk registration system were being abused.

• 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

Esmond was dogged in his pursuit of data to document the flow of ivory as well as the exorbitant prices paid for whole tusks.

In Kenya the problem as particularly acute among the elephant and rhino populations who are prized for their ivory tusks and horns.

Of 37 ivory traders surveyed, 30 offered to engage in illegal or fraudulent activities including purchasing and processing unregistered tusks of unknown origin or registering tusks using false information.

Revelations of rampant fraud in the Japanese system coincide with a rapid rise in ivory trade in Japan and a poaching epidemic in Africa, where more than 30,000 elephants are being slaughtered each year for their tusks.

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In accordance with its obligations under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), Japan agreed to require that all whole ivory tusks imported prior to the 1989 CITES international ivory trade ban and entering trade within Japan be registered with the governmenIn accordance with its obligations under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), Japan agreed to require that all whole ivory tusks imported prior to the 1989 CITES international ivory trade ban and entering trade within Japan be registered with the governmenin Endangered Species (CITES), Japan agreed to require that all whole ivory tusks imported prior to the 1989 CITES international ivory trade ban and entering trade within Japan be registered with the government.

In recent years, up to 33,000 African elephants have been killed annually for their ivory tusks.

Many ivory tusks registered in Japan are cut up and made into hanko name seals and sold on online shopping sites.

«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 Government of Japan has announced its intention to launch an expanded tusk registration campaign nationwide that will increase demand for ivory in Japan, while legalizing large amounts of illegal ivory.

EIA first reported in 2015 that Japan's tusk registration scheme was rife with fraudulent declarations that allowed undocumented illegal ivory tusks to be legalized for sale onto Japan's domestic market.

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.

Ivory traders are now thought to be stockpiling elephant tusks and ivory products for lucrative sales to the hundreds of thousands of foreigners expected to attend the Beijing Olympics in the summer of 2008.

«Sadly, we are not surprised that the JWRC is being implicated in a scheme by ivory traders to register tusks illegally,» said Danielle Grabiel, EIA Senior Policy Analyst.

For example, in 2011 Takaichi Inc., Japan's largest manufacturer of ivory hanko name seals, was exposed for purchasing between 500 and 1600 illegal raw tusks.

While poaching has declined a bit as of late, some 20,000 African elephants are still slaughtered for their tusks each year, much in part to meet ivory demand from Asia, particularly China, notes Simon Denyer in The Washington Post.

Now, the good news: The government in China, which is by far the biggest market for illegal ivory, is taking strong measures to close its borders to elephant tusks.

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.