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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.
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• 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)
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.
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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.
IFAW argues that in online sales it's impossible to distinguish between legal ivory (antique pieces that predate strict trade treaties on endangered species) and modern, illicit ivory harvested by poachers.
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.
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.
Other elephant watchdogs worry that DNA tracking will prove too effective and spur more ivory trading by permitting legal sales — just as the South Africans hoped.
But there is an intimate connection: like many terrorist organisations in Africa, Boko Haram is funded by sales of illegal ivory (see «Ivory poaching funds most war and terrorism in Africa «-RRB-.
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112 tonnes of stockpiled ivory will stay off the international market following a decision not to allow a one - time sale by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) praised AEON's official announcement that it will phase out all sales of elephant ivory by tenants in all of AEON's numerous malls across Japan by March 2020.
EIA urges Yahoo! Japan, owned by SoftBank, to cease all ivory sales to eliminate Japan's largest internet ivory marketplace.
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) praised AEON's official announcement that it will phase out all sales of elephant ivory by tenants in all of AEON's numerous malls across Japan by March 2020.
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.
Aeon already banned ivory sales in its own stores and online in 2015, as previously reported by Gendai Inshoh.
This follows last week's revelation that Google was allowing similar illicit sale of ivory products by its Google Japan Shopping site.
CITES actually permitted and even encouraged China's domestic market by allowing a «one - off» sale of African ivory to China in 2008 — a decision that clearly ignited the massive surge in elephant slaughter, which is growing more devastating each year.
Unfortunately this ban was weakened by two CITES - authorized «one - off» ivory sales in 1999 and 2008.
(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.