Sentences with phrase «ivory bans by»

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Rightfully banned in 1989 by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and condemned by anyone with a conscience, ivory is now mostly relegated to dusty china cabinets and old piano keys.

It points to the environment secretary's crackdown on sales of ivory, his plans to ban new petrol and diesel cars by 2040 and his interest in a deposit scheme for drinks bottles and cans.

Atkins has shown her support for animal welfare by creating a bill that strengthened the ban on importing and selling ivory and rhino horns or products in California.

«EBay is in a unique position to set an example for the rest of the industry by implementing a comprehensive ban on ivory,» said Flocken.

Allan Thornton, president of the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), said, «We appeal to SoftBank leaders Masayoshi Son and Nikesh Arora to protect the elephants for future generations by banning ivory trade on Yahoo! Japan.

The United States has already instituted a near - total ban on ivory and China's ban will be in place by the end of 2017.

In December 2016, in no small part due to information Esmond brought to light, the Government of China announced it would ban domestic ivory trade by January 1st, 2018.

China is also enacting a domestic ban on elephant ivory, to be fully implemented by the end of 2017.

We campaign for elephant range states and ivory consumer nations like Japan to ban existing legal domestic ivory trade and crack down on poachers and organized criminals by enacting and enforcing tough laws and regulations.

The U.S. acted on its pledge to end commercial ivory sales by announcing a «near - total ban» on the commercial trade of elephant ivory.

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

Aeon already banned ivory sales in its own stores and online in 2015, as previously reported by Gendai Inshoh.

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

«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.

Unfortunately this ban was weakened by two CITES - authorized «one - off» ivory sales in 1999 and 2008.

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.

Ivory destruction ceremonies have been a litmus test for where a country stands on the ivory trade ever since Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi torched 13 tons of ivory in 1989, setting the stage for a vote to ban international trade in ivory by parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

(AP)-- A proposal by Tanzania to weaken the 21 - year ban on ivory sales was rejected by a U.N. conservation meeting over fears the African country has been failing to crack down on rising incidents of poaching.

Ever since 1986, the international trade of whale meat has been banned between countries that signed that year's document produced by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES (CITES was in the news a bunch earlier this year too, but for failing to protect the trade of just about every endangered species imaginable — at least they banned ivory).