Sentences with phrase «ivory trade controls»

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

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LONDON (Reuters)- Online selling and weak controls on domestic ivory sales in Japan are spurring illegal international trade in elephant tusks and contributing to a steep rise in poaching, activists said on Tuesday.

• An influential report by the wildlife trade monitoring group, TRAFFIC, supporting Japan's 1997 bid to reopen ivory trade found that Japan could not control ivory trade, but the conclusions were changed and supported Japan's successful bid to reopen ivory trade

«Africa's elephants are paying for Japan's shocking failure to enact its legal commitments to enforce rigorous controls to prevent illegal ivory trade,» said Allan Thornton, President of EIA.

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.

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.

Last month, the Chinese government announced it would «strictly control ivory processing and trade until the commercial processing and sale of ivory and its products are eventually halted,» but details and a timeline have yet to be announced, leaving this statement and intent ambiguous.

Delegates were persuaded to reject Tanzania's proposals by evidence presented during the meeting that challenged Tanzania's elephant management and law enforcement capabilities to control elephant poaching and illegal ivory trade.

Some conservationists say that a limited legal ivory trade is needed to satiate demand, especially in China, in a controlled manner.