Sentences with phrase «ivory sales»

He thinks DNA tracking may ultimately curb ivory sales because it can reveal whether dealers are telling the truth about where their ivory comes from.

Internet retailers Google, Amazon, eBay, and Alibaba have already banned ivory sales on their platforms.

Evidence suggests increased regulation, like eBay's ban on ivory sales in 2009, may be driving wildlife traders to sell via social media.

In a major victory for elephants Rakuten Ichiba, Japan's largest e-commerce company, ceased ivory sales on July 1, 2017.

«Research could play major role in curbing illegal ivory sales.»

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, 32 environmental and conservation organizations appealed to Yahoo! Japan, the world largest internet ivory seller, and its major shareholder SoftBank, to halt all elephant ivory sales on Yahoo! Japan's shopping and auctions sites.

The country is closing 67 ivory carving factories and retail shops this week, accounting for 30 percent of all, in preparation to stop all domestic ivory sales by the end of 2017.

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 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.

The decision came partly in response to a new investigation conducted by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, which found numerous examples of legally dubious ivory sales on the auction site.

But with the exception of limited ivory sales that CITES approved in 1999 and 2008, the ban has held firm and has helped rebuild some populations despite the overall decline.

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

IFAW and eBay country affiliates have already successfully collaborated on restricting ivory sales in some international markets.

• The identities of four Japanese ivory companies that admitted to undercover EIA investigators to conducting daily ivory sales to Chinese buyers and boasted of the vast amounts of ivory being illegally exported to China and Hong Kong

AEON, one of Japan's largest retail companies with more than 50 malls across Japan, prohibited ivory sales in its directly managed stores starting June 2015, and is now expanding its policy to all mall tenants.

WWF have recently, along with others, linked the ivory trade with wars and «terrorism», although many of us have been saying this since the 80s when wars in Angola, Mozambique, Somalia and Sudan were part funded by money from ivory sales.

Rakuten's laudable decision to ban ivory sales demonstrates the important role that Japanese industry can play in the fight to save the world's elephants.

After nearly a decade without any legal ivory sales, CITES permitted four auctions in 2008 during which Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Botswana sold a total of about 116 tons of ivory.

«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.

Other hanko name seal retailers in Japan have also ceased ivory sales.

Law enforcement agencies and conservationist are expected to make use of the system — developed by researchers from the University's Centre for Cyber Security — in their ongoing battle against illegal ivory sales.

LONDON (Reuters)- Online selling and weak controls on domestic ivory sales in Japan are spurring illegal international trade in elephant tusks and contributing to a steep rise in poaching, activists said on Tuesday.

Today, 32 environmental and conservation organizations appealed to Yahoo! Japan, the world largest internet ivory seller, and its major shareholder SoftBank, to halt all elephant ivory sales on Yahoo! Japan's shopping and auctions sites.

Today Hong Kong Legislative Councilors voted to ban ivory sales in the former epicentre... Read More

In the US, WCS seeks national and state moratoria on ivory sales.

Paula Kahumbu, a science adviser to the Kenyan government, which opposes all ivory sales, views the new techniques more warily: «The suggestion that this DNA fingerprinting will, in essence, be used as a tool to help authorities to facilitate the ivory trade is scary.

The controversial idea will get a hearing next week at a major conservation meeting in South Africa, where elephant - rich African nations will renew a push to scrap a long - standing global ban on ivory sales and replace it with a limited legal trade in tusks taken from carefully managed elephant populations.

A British ban on ivory sales will be one of the world's toughest in a bid to protect elephants, Environment Secretary Michael Gove has said.

The Parties have made it quite clear that there should be no trade in elephant ivory... any legal trade in elephant ivory incentivizes elephant poaching and illegal ivory sales.

EBay France has reported a 98 % reduction in ivory sales and Germany has experienced a 95 % decrease in ivory products available.

Yet despite eBay's announcement last year of a new global policy banning ivory sales across international borders, ivory sales in the United States appear to have drastically increased.

We still need your help to stop Rakuten's ivory sales and help the elephants!

Kitty Block, vice president of Humane Society International, said, «The Rakuten Group must enact a company - wide ban on ivory sales — global consumers today want no part in this slaughter.

Share our campaign poster EIA has produced this poster in the style of Rakuten's own advertising to spread awareness of the company's elephant ivory sales.

EIA president Allan Thornton said: «AEON's decision to end all ivory sales in its malls sends a strong signal to the people of Japan that domestic ivory trade in Japan must end to help protect Africa's elephants.»

EIA urges Yahoo! Japan, owned by SoftBank, to cease all ivory sales to eliminate Japan's largest internet ivory marketplace.

Lend your voice and tell Yahoo! Japan to cease all ivory sales to protect elephants!

«EIA commends Rakuten for supporting African countries in protecting their elephants through its decision to end all ivory sales,» said EIA president Allan Thornton.

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.

• 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)