Sentences with phrase «ivory stockpiles»

In addition to tightened domestic restrictions on ivory, governments such as Hong Kong, France and China are showing much needed support by destroying some or all of their ivory stockpiles, and some major global retailers are vowing to stop selling ivory completely.

We believe that only by burning or destroying ivory stockpiles worldwide can it be ensured that illegal ivory can not be laundered into the system, fueling the continued slaughter of elephants across their range.

Advocacy groups such as WildAid have, however, shown that traders often use loopholes within Hong Kong's laws to re-stock their «legal» ivory stockpiles with illegal ivory from recently poached elephants.

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.

The role of ivory stockpiles, and their unrealised economic importance, is yet another controversial issue repeatedly touched on in the AESG report.

By crushing the seized ivory stockpile, the United States government sent a strong signal to the rest of the world that we need to get serious now about saving elephants and ending the demand that is fueling ivory trafficking.

Not exact matches

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.

Former Kenyan president Daniel Arap Moi began incinerating stockpiles of ivory in 1989 at the same time as the ban on the international trade in ivory came into effect.

The results confirm what many conservationists have suspected: Long - term stockpiles don't contribute much ivory to illegal trade, and poached ivory quickly ends up in illegal markets.

Then the poachers apparently shifted their targets, because the elephants disappeared from eastern DRC and international attention had ramped up pressure on Zambia (because it wanted to sell stockpiles of ivory), said Bill Clark, an adviser to Interpol and a co-author of the new paper, in a press teleconference.

Almost all the ivory in large stockpiles seized by law enforcement originates in just two locations in Africa, informing authorities about where to focus their resources.

Samples of confiscated illegal ivory should be taken before destroying stockpiles to allow forensic investigators to trace poaching and trafficking routes

Richard Leakey made headlines around the world in 1989 when a stockpile of 12 tons of ivory was burned in Nairobi National Park.

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).

Zimbabwean parks employees allegedly managed to steal ivory from the Hwange stockpile since 2012 and export it to international trafficking syndicates.

Given the 18 - year international ban on international ivory trade, the 12th Conference of the Parties decided in 2002 that a second international auction of ivory from these southern African stockpiles could go ahead but only if a number of conditions had been met.

Specifically, China seeks to import ivory from stockpiles in Botswana, Namibia, south Africa and Zimbabwe to satisfy booming domestic demand.

The campaign is purportedly intended to gauge the size of the national stockpile, but the tusk registration regulations are weak and full of loopholes making it impossible to prevent illegal ivory from being registered.

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.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The United States will destroy its six - ton stockpile of elephant ivory as a way to combat wildlife trafficking, an international fight that often has law enforcement outgunned by well - financed crime syndicates, White House panelists said on Monday.

Ivory traders are now thought to be stockpiling elephant tusks and ivory products...

Interestingly, the legal ivory trade in China — which relied on stockpiled goods collected before the global ban — has inadvertently worked to harbor a booming illegal trade that has fueled poaching.

@christackett Would rather poachers try for stealing stockpiled confiscated ivory, than kill more animals.