Sentences with phrase «ivory trade for»

EIA: Fighting to Protect Elephants The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has been campaigning to protect elephants from the ivory trade for more than 25 years.

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

(The demand for elephant ivory, of course, is also way up; I encourage you to read Alex Shoumatoff's article in Vanity Fair on the ivory trade for more.)

Not exact matches

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

They usually built their towns on islands adjoining the mainland for purposes of defense against the tribes of the hinterland, settled down and married African women, and traded in gold, slaves, ivory, and other African products.

Divers have found a profusion of knife blades, ivory combs, needles, crucifixes and religious medals — items that were obviously made in the Old World for trade in the New.

Yet one area of this booming illicit trade receives more attention than most: poaching for ivory and rhino horn.

They're pushing for several pieces of legislation regarding animal cruelty, from how domestic cases are handled by law enforcement to ending the ivory trade market.

Nearly two tons of trinkets, statues and jewelry crafted from the tusks of at least 100 slaughtered elephants are heading for a rock crusher in New York City's Central Park to demonstrate the state's commitment to smashing the illegal ivory trade.

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

The prince says that he wants to see an end to the ivory trade, which could wipe out what remains of herds of African and Asian elephants, not just for this generation but also for his son and his son's children.

Even though other countries are clamping down on illegal ivory, the unconstrained trade in Japan may offer loopholes for criminals to keep selling ivory — fuelling elephant poaching

They returned with countless walrus snouts, whose ivory tusks they removed and prepared for trade with Europe.

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

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) today issued a new report charging that users of eBay.com are behind two thirds of the online trade in endangered animals worldwide, specifically, ivory made from tusks ripped from poached elephants.

The Norse paid tithe to the Norwegian king and to the Catholic Church in ivory, and traded it with European merchants for supplies like iron, boat parts, and wood.

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.

The researcher notes «in the light of the recent killings of elephants in the state for ivory trade and during conflicts, Sabahans must realise that it is their natural patrimony that is targeted, they need to stand for their wildlife and condemn those who kill those magnificent creatures.

Members of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature World Conservation Congress, happening this week in Honolulu, will decide on Motion 7, whichwould call on the IUCN to encourage governments to shut down the ivory trade — and provide help in doing so.

Once illegal ivory has entered into the legal trade, it is difficult or impossible for enforcement officers to know what is legal and what is not.

Since U.S. Fish and Wildlife financed the study, it means that the U.S. government and taxpayers are paying for reopening the ivory trade.»

For a few years, poaching declined, herds began recovering, and in 1997 USA Today proclaimed that «the illegal ivory trade has been virtually wiped out.»

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

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.

Next week, three nations — Zimbabwe, Namibia, and South Africa — are expected to offer proposals for restarting a legal ivory trade.

Within the past week, Thailand officials seized seven tons of ivory, representing the slaughter of hundreds of African elephants for illegal trade.

For example, engineering biomarkers into tusks to track poaching, or more radically to alter tusks in a way that make them valueless to the ivory trade, which would allow male elephants to keep their large tusks — important indicators of good genes for matiFor example, engineering biomarkers into tusks to track poaching, or more radically to alter tusks in a way that make them valueless to the ivory trade, which would allow male elephants to keep their large tusks — important indicators of good genes for matifor mating.

Before Chinese demand for ivory began driving the black market and illegal killing of tens of thousands of elephants each year, it was Japan's market for hanko, personal seals used to sign contracts, that fueled the ivory trade.

In 2015 sought «endangered» protections for Africa's savannah and forest elephants, with both species vanishing due to the illegal ivory trade.

Trading one strapless getup for another, wears an ivory Calvin Klein Collection tuxedo jumpsuit with a coordinating clutch, smoky gray necklace and some seriously pointy Christian Louboutin pumps at the CFDA / Vogue Fashion Fund event in L.A.

Sarah Jessica Parker traded in her LBD from the night before for a LWD, selecting an ivory tulip - print Alexander McQueen dress, styling it with an eclectic mix of jewelry, including a Veronika Borchers for Pearl Collective necklace, and metallic aqua SJP open - toe pumps.

Shed darks and trade them in for light neutral layers, like an ivory coat with an oatmeal knit over white skinnies.

Olivia Wilde traded her ivory gown from Valentino for a pink halter - neck dress from Prabal Gurung.

Although vast profits for the ivory trade had been generated for years by China, the Chinese government had long refused to admit it had any...

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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.

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.

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.

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.

In a century when the roots of environmental problems often lie half a planet away (consider the ivory trade, or the contribution of greenhouse gases and soot to Arctic ice melting) what's needed most is collaborative post-departmental journalism, not individual desks and editors competing for the front page.

On Monday, however, the Chinese authorities received widespread plaudits when, in a first for the country, they destroyed more than six tons of confiscated ivory ornaments and tusks in Dongguan, a city in the southern province of Guangdong, which is a major hub for the ivory trade.

Now they are asking you to design a way to display the crushed ivory so that it raises awareness of the illegal wildlife trade and reduces demand for illegal ivory.

Allan Thornton, president of the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), said, «We appeal to SoftBank leaders Masayoshi Son and Nikesh Arora to protect the elephants for future generations by banning ivory trade on Yahoo! Japan.

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.

We campaign for elephant range states and ivory consumer nations like Japan to ban existing legal domestic ivory trade and crack down on poachers and organized criminals by enacting and enforcing tough laws and regulations.

The fact that all of these rhinos were poached on reserves specially created for their protection highlights the extreme difficulties faced in combating the ivory trade.

Studies of trade in elephant ivory indicate that legal markets provide a cover for trade in illegal products and render enforcement extremely difficult.

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

Revelations of rampant fraud in the Japanese system coincide with a rapid rise in ivory trade in Japan and a poaching epidemic in Africa, where more than 30,000 elephants are being slaughtered each year for their tusks.

The resolution calls for the closure of domestic ivory markets in countries with legal markets linked to illegal trade or poaching.