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International ivory trafficking is a serious threat to the survival of the African elephant.
Not exact matches
NEW YORK (Reuters)- A Chinese citizen, the admitted ringleader of an
international smuggling operation that
trafficked in $ 4.5 million worth of rhinoceros horns,
ivory cups and trinkets, pleaded guilty on Thursday in federal court in New Jersey, prosecutors said.
The admitted ringleader of an
international smuggling operation that
trafficked in $ 4.5 million worth of rhinoceros horns,
ivory cups and trinkets, pleaded guilty on Thursday in federal court in New Jersey, prosecutors said
The decision to allow China to buy
ivory has indeed sparked more
ivory trafficking, according to
international watchdog groups and traders I met in China and Hong Kong.
Last year, some 24 tons of
ivory was seized around the world — the product of an estimated 2,500 elephants — making it the worst year for elephant poaching since an
international ban on commercial
ivory trading began in 1989, according to
Traffic, a wildlife trade monitoring network.
Zimbabwean parks employees allegedly managed to steal
ivory from the Hwange stockpile since 2012 and export it to
international trafficking syndicates.
WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The United States will destroy its six - ton stockpile of elephant
ivory as a way to combat wildlife
trafficking, an
international fight that often has law enforcement outgunned by well - financed crime syndicates, White House panelists said on Monday.
«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.
Meanwhile, according to investigations done by a Belgian journalist, Viktor Bout, an
international arms dealer wanted by Interpol, was operating in the region at the time, and
ivory was among the commodities Bout traded and
trafficked.