Sentences with phrase «ivory trade»

The illegal ivory trade threatens the persistence of stable wild elephant populations.

Any country that truly wants to change the fate for elephants should enact a domestic ban on ivory trade.

Such knowledge is essential if African countries and their supporters hope to enforce the ban on international ivory trading enacted 16 years ago.

All nations, particularly those with large ivory markets, should implement permanent and comprehensive bans on commercial ivory trade with immediate effect.

What's the key to combating ivory trade, illegal fishing, and other environmental crimes?

The disrupted ivory trade, and perhaps losses at sea, couldn't have helped.

The ban is not legally binding, but shows that countries are stepping up toward combating illegal ivory trade.

The growing number of countries banning the commercial ivory trade has pushed black market prices to new highs.

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.»

The government's three - step plan aims to completely phase out domestic ivory trade in the next five years.

«Japan is awash with ivory of dubious legality and fraud, and abuse of ivory trade controls are rampant,» Thornton continued.

EIA has been at the forefront of the global battle to halt the blood ivory trade for over 25 years.

EIA hopes that parallel domestic commercial ivory trade bans are prioritized in order to protect elephants.

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.

In December 2016, in no small part due to information Esmond brought to light, the Government of China announced it would ban domestic ivory trade by January 1st, 2018.

«By ending ivory trade on its Japanese site, Rakuten has demonstrated its commitment to progressive environmental policies and global conservation leadership,» said Amy Zets Croke, EIA Policy Analyst.

In 1989, EIA's groundbreaking exposé revealed rampant elephant poaching and a booming global ivory trade, perpetrated by a network of criminals and corrupt officials in Africa and in importing nations.

While The Ivory Game's ambitiously broad look at the illegal ivory trade takes on a bit more than it needs to, it does shed some definite light on a growing global problem.

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.

UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon commended this innovative joint initiative between the two partner UN Agencies: «The illegal trade in goods and services often funds unscrupulous people involved in human trafficking, the illicit ivory trade and other areas that cause immense suffering and destruction.

Such a strategy is destined to backfire — just as it did with South Africa's success in re-establishing legal ivory trade with Japan and China.

They really did not understand how legal ivory trade provided the mechanism for laundering poached ivory in consuming markets, especially those in Asia.

Anti-trafficking wildlife groups lauded authorities for the haul, part of the illegal elephant ivory trade that has been rising globally since 2004, largely due to increasing Chinese demand.

This is where I'm appalled at WWF's activities on ivory trade policy: their use of language and clever marketing tactics.

Bryan Christy, who last year wrote «Ivory Worship,» a stellar investigative report on the Asian ivory trade for National Geographic, posted a piece earlier in the week putting this event in broader context and stressing there's much more to be done — as the Obama administration clearly understands.

Taiwan has introduced a bill that will ban all domestic ivory trade effective January 1, 2020.

It's time for Japan to ban domestic ivory trade starting with banning internet trade in ivory, therefore ending the sale of ivory hanko name seals, and ending with any further government registration of whole raw tusks — a huge loophole that allows illegal ivory to be legalized and laundered onto the Japanese domestic market.

Shutting down the world's largest ivory trade could effectively help prevent poachers from killing elephants for their tusks.

After interacting with local rangers and wildlife experts and sensing the urgency of the situation, Slash and fellow band mate Myles Kennedy were inspired to write «Beneath the Savage Sun,» a new song from his latest solo album that illustrates the brutal ivory trade from an elephant's point of view.

* Illegal ivory trade receives a blow from a new genetic map of elephants across Africa.

The funding of Boko Haram's atrocities by the illegal ivory trade show that poaching is not just a problem for conservationists, but for all of us

«The abhorrent ivory trade should become a thing of the past,» Britain's environment secretary said Tuesday.

A former war photographer tracks the shameful ivory trade in a galvanising documentary which is a potent mix of film and message

Last year, some 24 tons of ivory was seized around the world — the product of an estimated 2,500 elephants — making it the worst year for elephant poaching since an international ban on commercial ivory trading began in 1989, according to Traffic, a wildlife trade monitoring network.

Conservation groups say poachers are wiping out tens of thousands of elephants a year, more than at any time in the previous two decades, with the underground ivory trade becoming increasingly militarized.

«EIA continues to encourage the Government of Japan to urgently close its legal domestic ivory market consistent with the CITES resolution and global efforts to protect elephants from the deadly ivory trade.»

Learn more about our work to stop Japan's ivory trade here.

Although useful to close any ivory market I thought at the time it was a diversion from their pro-legal ivory trade position.

Born out of the necessity of establishing a U.S. presence from its London sister - office, EIA US began as co-founders Allan Thornton and David Currey uncovered illegal ivory trade flows from Africa through the Middle East to supply markets in Asia.

While the arguments over DDT are particularly fraught, the attempt to ban ivory trade entirely when giving local residents elephant ownership rights to harvest ivory had proved much more effective than outright bans is a classic case of premises over consequences.

«Now all attention should be on Japan, which continues to have a weakly - regulated ivory trade, as the last step to consigning this destructive trade to history,» Knights said.

«To show it is serious about stopping its illegal ivory trade problem, Japan needs to cease all registration of whole tusks immediately as a step in closing its domestic ivory market,» said Grabiel.

China's long failure to crack down on its massive illegal ivory trade makes a mockery of its claims to be hosting a «Green Olympics».

Six Japanese ivory trading companies that sell ivory via the popular shopping site Yahoo! Japan auctions offered to engage in illegal activities to buy, sell, acquire, or fraudulently register an unregistered ivory tusk.

States are also taking action to combat ivory trafficking — New York and New Jersey have passed legislation banning commercial ivory trade while other states are in the process of passing similar legislation to do their part to protect elephants.

China, with its 1.3 billion people, must ban all domestic ivory trade as it threatens to push the African elephant to extinction.

Along the same lines as a proposed ivory trade, a legal rhino horn trade directly conflicts with and undermines demand reduction strategies and serves as a means to launder illegally obtained products.

Indeed, we are still waiting for Thailand to ban its domestic ivory trade after being congratulated for committing to do so in 2013.

While all eyes are on the United States and China, Japan's resurgent ivory trade is slipping under the radar.