Sentences with phrase «into illegal ivory»

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...

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.

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

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Insidious poachers and greedy ivory profiteers still drive the slaughter, laundering illegal ivory into markets abroad.

Once illegal ivory has entered into the legal trade, it is difficult or impossible for enforcement officers to know what is legal and what is not.

«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.

«Japan's ivory controls are flawed and there is evidence that large amounts of illegal ivory... have been laundered into the domestic market,» said the report, which was co-authored by animal welfare group Humane Society International.

We believe that only by burning or destroying ivory stockpiles worldwide can it be ensured that illegal ivory can not be laundered into the system, fueling the continued slaughter of elephants across their range.

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.