Sentences with phrase «ivory products»
The phrase "ivory products" refers to items that are made from or contain ivory, which is a hard, white material obtained from the tusks of elephants and other similar animals. Full definition
Elephants are being poached in mass numbers and their ivory trafficked to fulfill an explosive demand for ivory products from consumers in countries like China, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
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A coalition of 24 environmental groups from Africa, Japan, the United States, and Europe have urged Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to enact immediate measure to ban domestic trade in elephant ivory products in order to help reduce large - scale poaching of African elephants.
Step one of the plan will see an immediate ban on the import and re-export of all elephant hunting trophies and ivory products acquired after 1976 when provisions of the CITES became applicable to elephants.
HARARE — Two ivory dealers have appeared in court facing charges of illegally selling unregistered ivory products in a case which has sucked in former first lady Grace Mugabe and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's child, Tariro.
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.»
The campaign will encourage tourists to make informed decisions and help reduce demand for trafficking in persons, cultural artefacts, wildlife, fauna and flora such as ivory products, as well as counterfeit goods, and illicit drugs.
EBay France has reported a 98 % reduction in ivory sales and Germany has experienced a 95 % decrease in ivory products available.
In response to these developments, IFAW today is renewing its call for eBay, Inc. to institute a full and complete ban on all elephant ivory products worldwide.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Conservationists from leading African organizations are appealing to internet retail giant Rakuten to immediately cease sales of elephant ivory products during the current poaching epidemic.
Yahoo! Japan continues to sell large quantities of ivory products on its online auction and shopping sites including whole tusks and hanko name seals, which are often associated with ivory tusks of illegal origin.
«For example, does it cause fluctuations in raw and worked ivory prices, or impact the levels of consumer demand for ivory products?»
In an effort to focus attention on the enormity of the wildlife trafficking crisis, the fourth largest transnational crime, the United States destroyed its stockpile of nearly 6 tons of illegal elephant ivory products on November 14th.
Send a Tweet If you are a Twitter user, send a Tweet to Rakuten calling on it to ban all sales of elephant ivory products.
EBay in June 2007 had agreed to remove any ivory products from its site that offered international shipping, and alerted sellers that they could only sell ivory in their own countries if it was legal to do so and, in some cases, only after getting government approval.
Our new report Blood e-Commerce: Rakuten's profits from the slaughter of elephants and whales — released by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) in conjunction with Humane Society International (HSI) on March 18th — revealed that the company's Japanese website carries more than 28,000 ads for elephant ivory products.
Step two will ban the import and re-export of all ivory products acquired before 1976.
Rakuten is stimulating market demand for elephant ivory by facilitating the sale of tens of thousands of ivory products.
Iris Ho, wildlife program manager at Humane Society International, said, «While key ivory consuming nations like China and the United States have committed to end their role in the ivory trade and leading companies like Google and Amazon have banned ivory product sales, Yahoo! Japan and the Government of Japan insist on being outliers and continue to stimulate the demand for ivory products.
Great news for whales, but Rakuten is still carrying ads for elephant ivory products, many originating from illegal ivory poached in Afrtica.
AEON's move follows Japanese internet giant Rakuten's enactment of a comprehensive policy change to end all sales of elephant ivory products, effective August 2017.
Conservationists from leading African organizations are appealing to internet retail giant Rakuten to immediately cease sales of elephant ivory products...
Great news for whales, but Rakuten is still carrying ads for elephant ivory products, many originating from illegal ivory poached in...
To complement this work, we pressure ivory product retailers, like Yahoo! Japan and Rakuten in Japan, to ban ivory product sales.
A 2014 EIA investigation found that Rakuten's website supported more than 28,000 ads for elephant ivory items and offered a range of ivory products for sale including whole tusks and musical instrument accessories, though the vast majority of ivory products were hanko name seals.
Japan has one of the world's largest domestic ivory markets, and Rakuten was once Japan's leading online retailer of ivory products.
Rakuten Ichiba sells thousands of elephant ivory products, made from the tusks of African elephants that are currently being slaughtered at the rate of up to 50,000 a year in the worst ever poaching crisis.
We appeal to Rakuten to help protect elephants by immediately banning all ads for ivory products.»
Ivory traders are now thought to be stockpiling elephant tusks and ivory products for lucrative sales to the hundreds of thousands of foreigners expected to attend the Beijing Olympics in the summer of 2008.
Ivory traders are now thought to be stockpiling elephant tusks and ivory products...
From his blog: «Yao Ming travels to Africa for the first time to come face - to - face with some of the world's most majestic species — the elephant and the rhino - and to document the poaching crisis these creatures are facing as a result of growing demand for rhino horn and ivory products.»