Sentences with phrase «ivory market»

Educational materials in the style of a museum would educate visitors on the poaching crisis and how the ivory market leads to these horrific acts.

«Reducing demand from China, the world's biggest ivory market, is probably the single most important factor that could help end the widespread poaching of elephants in Africa,» writes Denver.

Following news that China is taking steps to close its domestic ivory trade, EIA calls on Japan, the largest remaining ivory market, to also end the trade.

JOHANNESBURG — The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is calling on Japan to close its domestic ivory market because it contributes to illegal trade and the poaching of Africa's elephants.

The announcement is an important first step by Chinese authorities toward implementing the country's commitment to close its domestic ivory market by the end of 2017.

10.10 and its implications for Japan's domestic ivory market that finds Japan's ivory market does in fact contribute to poaching and illegal trade and thus is not exempt from the 2016 ban on domestic elephant ivory markets.

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.

«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.

• Learn more about Rakuten's decision to cease ivory sales by reading EIA's press release and associated blog post • Check out Blood e-Commerce, our 2014 report on Rakuten's ivory sales • Read about Japan's domestic ivory market and how it contributes to elephant poaching and illegal trade in our two recent reports: Japan's Illegal Ivory Trade (2015) and The Dirty Secrets of Japan's Illegal Ivory Trade (2016)

Unfortunately, special interest groups like the National Rifle Association are attempting to undermine this progress by supporting a bill introduced by Congressman Don Young (R - AK), which would prevent any changes from being made to how the United States treats its ivory market, thus allowing loopholes to remain.

This is the case in the U.S. ivory market — one of the largest in the world — where traffickers exploit regulatory loopholes in order to misrepresent illegal ivory as legal ivory.

«EIA continues to encourage the Government of Japan to urgently close its legal domestic ivory market consistent with the CITES resolution and global efforts to protect elephants from the deadly ivory trade.»

While elephant ivory sales provide astronomical funds for criminals and terrorists, the consumer ivory market is small compared to autos, solar panels and electronics.

And we have good reason to believe that rebel militias are players in a worldwide ivory market worth millions and millions of dollars a year.

More importantly, the story shows how, at several levels, the Chinese government has cornered the ivory market and, by raising prices, intensified poaching pressure on elephants.

On December 31, 2016 China announced it was shutting down the world's largest ivory market.

China has a voracious appetite for elephant ivory, but the country plans to shut down its ivory market by the end of 2017.

The Chinese government enacted a ban on the commercial sale of elephant ivory last year, and the legal mammoth ivory market has been booming since.

By the time you eat breakfast, another elephant has been slaughtered to produce trinkets for the ivory market.»

Addressing the demand is absolutely essential if we are going to deal with the poaching issues... Certainly closing down domestic ivory in China will have a dramatic impact, the Chinese market is the largest ivory market in the world.

Officials in China say that by the end of the year, they will be shutting down the country's ivory market.

The message is simple: to save elephants, all ivory markets must close and all ivory stockpiles must be destroyed, according to a new peer - reviewed paper by the Wildlife Conservation Society.

«All ivory markets must close, study suggests.»

To combat this crisis and protect elephants, major ivory markets including the United States, China, and Hong Kong have committed to taking steps to ban domestic ivory trade.

Closing ivory markets eliminates loopholes for laundering illicit ivory and reduces the demand for ivory as part of the global effort to stop elephant poaching and ivory trafficking.

EIA is working to ensure the strongest regulatory ban on the ivory trade is implemented and believes strong U.S. leadership is needed to focus the international dialogue on closing down all domestic ivory markets, both illegal and legal.

Japan has one of the world's largest domestic ivory markets, and Rakuten was once Japan's leading online retailer of ivory products.

The resolution calls for the closure of domestic ivory markets in countries with legal markets linked to illegal trade or poaching.

Despite a landmark decision at CITES CoP17 in 2016 to close down domestic ivory markets, the Government of Japan has refused to ban ivory sales or acknowledge the role Japan plays in the illegal ivory trade and poaching of elephants.

Just before World Elephant Day 2017, elephants are receiving great news from Japan, home to one of the world's largest legal domestic ivory markets.

Japan has historically been one of the largest ivory markets in the world and maintains that it is exempt from the recently agreed upon changes to Res.

In 2016 at CITES CoP17, Parties unanimously approved amendments to Resolution Conf.10.10 (Rev. CoP17), «Trade in elephant specimens,» that included recommending urgently closing domestic ivory markets that contribute to poaching or illegal trade.

Last October 180 member nations of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) agreed unanimously to close domestic ivory markets where they contribute to illegal trade or poaching.

Allowing «one - off» sales, evaluating so - called regulated ivory markets and discussing a potential trade in ivory have not worked to reduce poaching — in fact, they have only served to increase demand and the poaching it fuels.

EIA applauds the United States for its leadership and urges all other nations, especially China, Japan, and Thailand, to follow the Unites States» lead and set firm timelines to close their own domestic ivory markets.

Increasing threats from organized crime and the presence of unregulated markets have resulted in a «highly significant correlation» between large - scale domestic ivory markets in Asia and Africa and poor law enforcement, the report suggests.

«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.

«Poaching and illegal ivory markets in central and western Africa must be effectively suppressed before any further ivory sales take place,» said Elisabeth McLellan, species program manager with WWF International.

Legal domestic ivory markets provide major cover for selling illegal elephant ivory, and undercut effective enforcement.

Strong leadership globally will be instrumental in closing down these problematic legal ivory markets and removing regulatory loopholes that support the illicit ivory trade.

Not exact matches

The markets for ivory and other elephant products are primarily in China and other parts of Asia.

When bonds yield 1.75 % for investment - grade bonds, then it's difficult to turn that into a 5 % -10 % return going forward... If he wants to argue against that, and talk about Dow 5000 and bear and bull markets, then he's welcome to, but he's pushing at windmills in my opinion, and he belongs back in his ivory tower.

They're pushing for several pieces of legislation regarding animal cruelty, from how domestic cases are handled by law enforcement to ending the ivory trade market.

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

Around the world, markets for species parts are sometimes driven by traditional uses — things like carving ivory or using certain animal parts in traditional medicines.

Richard Brewer - Hay, an eBay spokesperson, said that move was an attempt to «balance the protection of endangered and protected species while also providing a way for sellers to offer legitimate ivory products legally allowed for sale within domestic markets.»

This surge was directly correlated to a more than quadrupling of local black - market ivory prices paid to poachers and tripling in the volume and number of illegal ivory seizures through Kenyan ports of transit.

Dr Duan Biggs from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (CEED) said the ivory burns and stockpile destruction had increased by more than 600 per cent since 2011, with Kenya burning a record - breaking 105 tons of ivory on 30 April, valued at up to US$ 220 million on the black market.

«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.

A lack of rules regulating the registration of raw ivory and the licensing of importers, wholesalers, manufacturers and retailers has allowed illicit stocks into Japan's domestic market, according to the report by the independent London - based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).