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

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The harsh environment in which they operate, deprived of natural resources or infrastructure to raid (such as in eastern DRC or the Niger delta), makes ivory and rhino horn trade that much more important.

Millions of dollars of ivory was destroyed in Central Park on Thursday as the state fights for elephants and against illegal ivory trade.

Fitzhugh of NMNH, for one, questions the reconception of the colony as an ivory - focused trading post and still thinks farming was more important.

Although African elephants are listed as an endangered species, with between 500,000 and 600,000 left in the wild, some African countries continue to push for legalizing trade in ivory tusks.

And as long as there is a form of legal ivory trade, conservationists fear the illegal elephant ivory trade will continue.

University of Toronto archaeologist Timothy Harrison and colleagues are excavating a temple in the Tell Tayinat region of Turkey, built around 800 B.C. Though this time was thought to be a dark age when trade between Greece and the Middle East nearly ground to a halt, Harrison says that his finds — including ivory carvings, precious metal foils, and pottery — are a clear indication of cultural and economic exchange among cultures such as the Hittites, Aegeans, and Semites.

As a result, the ivory trade is a significant threat to elephants» survival.

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.

According to a 2013 study by the University of Washington, the annual number of African elephants being slaughtered to supply the illegal ivory trade is estimated to be as high as 50,000, or roughly one sixth of the continent's remaining elephant population.

As a result, there has been an «escalating criminalization» in the trade of ivory and rhinoceros horn, Ashe said.

Paula Kahumbu, a science adviser to the Kenyan government, which opposes all ivory sales, views the new techniques more warily: «The suggestion that this DNA fingerprinting will, in essence, be used as a tool to help authorities to facilitate the ivory trade is scary.

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.

People in New York City's Times Square will witness plumes of pulverized bone erupt as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service crushes one ton of confiscated ivory Friday to protest the illegal poaching of African elephants for the ivory trade.

Though these trading posts were originally utilized for such items as gold, ivory, timber, and spices, by the late 1400s trade had expanded to include the buying and selling of human cargo in the form of African slaves.

Day 1 Fly from your chosen airport to Marrakech, which was founded in the 11th century and grew rich on trade in gold and ivory culminating in its recognition as the capital of an empire from Toledo to Senegal.

Sometimes the human impact has been as direct as the bite of chain saws toppling ancient trees to make way for cattle pasture or nets corralling schools of giant bluefin tuna for the sushi trade or gunshots felling elephants for their ivory.

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.

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With its nearly unlimited scope, largely unregulated access and relative anonymity, the Internet has emerged as the preferred method for the illicit trade of elephant ivory and other endangered animals and their parts.

Esmond must have been thrilled — and could certainly have viewed as a personal and professional victory — when the Chinese government news agency began to publicly call out Japan - the world's second largest consumer of ivory for taking no action against its own flourishing illegal ivory trade.

But the finalized rule — a revision of the Endangered Species Act — closes this loophole and limits the legal trade in elephant ivory only to antiques that are over a century old, as well as certain pre-existing manufactured products that contain less than 200 grams of ivory.

As part of the plan, all ivory trading licenses will expire on December 31st, 2021, giving domestic ivory traders five years to liquidate their stocks.

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.

China has pledged to shut down all trade in ivory by the end of 2017, a move that conservationists are hailing as a «game changer» for elephant conservation.

Also this week, the UK announced tighter restrictions on ivory limiting trade to very few exceptions, such as museum antiquities.

«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.

Often represented by pro-ivory trade voices as being the best - controlled ivory trade in Asia, Japan's domestic ivory trade system is in reality riddled with loopholes that can be used to launder illegal ivory.

EIA will be submitting comments on the proposed rule and encourages others to weigh in, letting FWS know how important and appreciated strong U.S. regulations are to counter the illegal ivory trade, reduce the demand for ivory, and devalue ivory as a commodity.

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.

As a key element of these efforts to reduce demand, disrupt the trade, and set a global example, we urge the United States to implement a moratorium on domestic ivory trade — an important action that would build upon the messages of the ivory crush and close loopholes in U.S domestic legislation that allow for illicit trade to continue.

Since our founding, we have achieved lasting successes, such as the international ban on ivory trade in 1989 and the passage of the 2008 Lacey Act amendment in the United States.

«We hope this is only the beginning and as a next step the U.S. bans its domestic ivory trade,» said Paula Kahumbu, director of Kenya - based Wildlife Direct.