Sentences with phrase «ivory ban»

A public consultation there received 70,000 responses, 88 % of which were in favor of a comprehensive ivory ban.

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The paper comes at a time of growing opposition to ivory bans by some groups claiming that carefully regulated ivory sales would help protect elephants and contribute to conservation through sales of ivory stockpiles and other legal sources.

Earlier, EIA's ground - breaking undercover investigations over two years into illegal ivory flowing from the killing fields of Africa to the smart shops of Hong Kong had provided the key evidence that helped secure the international ivory ban, passed in 1989 by a three - quarters majority of Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

The actions by the U.K. and Taiwan follow domestic ivory bans in mainland China and the US.

After the initial success of the ivory ban almost 20 years ago, Western nations considered the problem solved and withdrew funding a few years later, leaving poorer countries to fight poachers on their own.

In the late 1980s, similar trends prompted CITES members to institute the ivory ban.

«An ivory ban is only thing we've seen that's worked,» he told me.

In 1999 and 2008, the 1989 ivory ban was seriously weakened by two legal international sales of ivory, one to Japan and a second to Japan and China.

He was clearly poorly informed but he was utterly opposed to an ivory ban and would consider us as bunny - hugging upstarts.

The current elephant disaster is a result of repeated attempts by southern African countries to weaken the ivory ban and sell their ivory.

WWF confirmed my fears in 1989 when, as a Tanzanian NGO was persuading their government topropose an ivory ban using some of our international undercover revelations, Hanks flew to Dar es Salaam representing WWF to try and talk them out of it.

Its policies matter and its long time opposition to the ivory ban has weakened that ban's success and contributed to the appalling slaughter across Africa going on right now.

EIA was desperately short of funds and although I knew WWF opposed an ivory ban at the time, it was worth a meeting.

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.

Now if Hong Kong, Britain and Japan would only climb aboard the ivory ban bandwagon, the future of the planet's beautiful regal elephants could become even more secure.