Sentences with phrase «ivory trade in»

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.

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.

The United States government implemented its own ban on ivory trade in 2016, and imposed stricter penalties to those who engage in wildlife trafficking.

If China were to ban its domestic commercial ivory trade in a timely fashion, it would be a critically important contribution towards eliminating the illegal ivory trade and reducing the slaughter of Africa's elephants.

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.

It focused on ending the ivory trade in Thailand.

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.

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.»

It is worth having an introductory talk about why elephants are hunted, and the abolition of the ivory trade in 1990.

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

The campaign aims to help the endangered animals in their homeland, educate the public about the damage ivory consumption does to elephant populations and secure a moratorium on ivory trading in the U.S., the world's second largest importer of ivory.

Not exact matches

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.

The World Bank loaned them $ 3 million to beef up their anti-poaching patrols, and no one in the government today seems deeply into the trophy or ivory trade, not with their coffee shambas paying off the way they are.

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.

Outgoing Assemblyman Bob Sweeney said a three - way deal has been reached on to inhibit the trade of elephant ivory and rhinoceros horns in New York — a main goal of his.

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.

Rightfully banned in 1989 by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and condemned by anyone with a conscience, ivory is now mostly relegated to dusty china cabinets and old piano keys.

It is, therefore, fitting that one of the leading proponents against the ivory trade recently — along with David Beckham and Jackie Chan, who, one could argue, are «royalty» in their own rights — is the future King of England and heir to the colonial legacy, Prince William.

1482 - Portuguese settlers arrive and begin trading in gold, ivory and timber with various Akan states.

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

Determining the levels of radioactive isotope in ivory should allow us to find out whether it is being illegally traded.

Declining wildlife populations has exacerbated child slavery in Ghana, Somali piracy and the illegal ivory trade

Environmental journalist Girling ponders the many ways humans have steadily deteriorated biodiversity in our attempt to catalog and conquer the natural world, from bloody quests that stocked early zoos to the current ravages of the ivory trade.

Measurements of salt particles in ice cores suggest that storminess rose toward the end of the occupation, perhaps making voyages to hunt and trade walrus ivory even more dangerous.

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.

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(Trade in mammoth ivory is legal because woolly mammoths are extinct and therefore not at risk of becoming endangered.)

The African elephant is unlikely to survive in a world without an ivory trade ban.

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.

It would have been better if the authors had been more cautious in their subsequent analysis, but unfortunately their report concludes that the «international ivory trade ban has not halted the illegal offtake [killing] of elephants».

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.

History has taught us that numbers alone are no defense against attrition from the ivory trade, and this new work confirms that elephant numbers are decreasing in East, Central and Southern Africa,» said co-author Iain Douglas - Hamilton, founder of Save the Elephants.

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.

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.

IFAW argues that in online sales it's impossible to distinguish between legal ivory (antique pieces that predate strict trade treaties on endangered species) and modern, illicit ivory harvested by poachers.

University of Washington biologist Samuel Wasser is a pioneer in using DNA evidence to trace the origin of illegal ivory and help police an international trade that is decimating African elephant populations.

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.

The ivory burning event comes in the wake of a front - page story in the influential Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly last November about the ivory trade.

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.

The new directive is particularly aimed at stopping the commercial trade in elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn.

In response, FWS will impose a ban on the commercial trade of elephant ivory within the United States, including resale and exports.

Calling it a «sobering and daunting crisis,» U.S. government officials announced today a national strategy to combat the surging trade in elephant ivory and other wildlife products.

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

The results confirm what many conservationists have suspected: Long - term stockpiles don't contribute much ivory to illegal trade, and poached ivory quickly ends up in illegal markets.

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.

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.»

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.