Sentences with phrase «ivory trade after»

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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.

The technique could be used to age confiscated animal parts — to determine, say, whether African elephant ivory was harvested before or after the 1989 trade ban.

In 1989, after the number of African elephants had declined from 1.3 million to 600,000 in less than a decade, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) banned all international trade in iTrade in Endangered Species (CITES) banned all international trade in itrade in ivory.

Though this decline was slowed after the international ban on the ivory trade, elephants are being slaughtered at an alarmingly rate again.

He claimed the Japanese demand for ivory would continue unchanged and illegal trade would escalate out of control — a theory utterly disproved in the two years after the ivory ban was agreed later that year.

WASHINGTON, DC - The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is calling for the closure of Japan's domestic ivory market after new evidence of illegal trade in ivory tusks was linked to the Ministry of Environment's tusk registration scheme.

This debate has been waxing and waning since at least 1989, when the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) voted to «ban» the international trade in ivory after a ferocious wave of poaching in Africa that left hundreds of thousands of elephants butchTrade in Endangered Species (CITES) voted to «ban» the international trade in ivory after a ferocious wave of poaching in Africa that left hundreds of thousands of elephants butchtrade in ivory after a ferocious wave of poaching in Africa that left hundreds of thousands of elephants butchered.