Sentences with phrase «ivory seizure in»

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With no significant Al - Shabaab activity detected outside of the Kenyan - Somalia area during 2010 - 12, and no seizures of ivory in destination or transit ports traced back to Somalia during that period, it is clear this heady mix of environmental crime and terrorism has been misleading.

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.

Two seizures of savanna elephant ivory, in 2002 and 2007, came from Zambia, but the country was not represented in any of the samples after 2007.

In the new paper, the UW group used its method to analyze 28 large ivory seizures, each more than half a ton, made between 1996 and 2014.

One of the biggest seizures contained large amounts of ivory from both hotspots, suggesting a link between the major dealers operating in these two areas.

Working with Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization, Wasser and colleagues have now sampled DNA from 28 large seizures of African ivory — each more than a half - ton — that police and custom officers had confiscated in Africa and Asia between 1996 and 2014.

Operation COBRA II results in the seizure of 36 rhino horns, three metric tons of elephant ivory, 10,000 turtles, and 1,000 skins of protected species, as well as 10,000 European eels and more than 200 metric tons of rosewood logs, dealing a huge blow to criminals involved in the highly lucrative trade in illegal wildlife.

The recovered items represent the largest seizure of illegal elephant ivory in New York State history.

«In big seizures, there's a very strong tendency to ship ivory out of a different country than where it's poached... It's a bit of a red herring,» said Samuel Wasser, director of the University of Washington's Center for Conservation Biology and the lead author of the study, published in this month's issue of Conservation BiologIn big seizures, there's a very strong tendency to ship ivory out of a different country than where it's poached... It's a bit of a red herring,» said Samuel Wasser, director of the University of Washington's Center for Conservation Biology and the lead author of the study, published in this month's issue of Conservation Biologin this month's issue of Conservation Biology.