Sentences with phrase «ivory trade makes»

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Highlights include clay model equivalents of firka paintings, depictions of Indian costumes, trades and professions, finely - wrought silver and copperware, votive bronzes, fossils and minerals, delicate ivories, and models of temples made from pith.

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 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.

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.

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 mating.

Serious Inquiries Only Please — Make OfferUp for sale or trade is one beautiful CJ5 with fiberglass body, painted in quality (Mopar) paint code M09 Jewel Blue and has an outstanding completely restored interior in ivory.

The first Europeans arrived in this area during the 17th century and made a living from hunting and the ivory trade.

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.

The Parties have made it quite clear that there should be no trade in elephant ivory... any legal trade in elephant ivory incentivizes elephant poaching and illegal ivory sales.

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.

Esmond — with his indefatigable energy and efforts — made an indelible and tangible impact in that the Government of China indeed did act to fulfill its commitments to ban domestic ivory trade.

Thailand's Prime Minister repeated claims made in the past pledging to end the domestic ivory trade, yet there is no timeline for this ban and the world's elephants become increasingly endangered while policy change languishes.

So the best outcome of this new test may lie in the creation of indisputable certificates of legitimacy for historic ivory pieces, which make the difference between legal and illegal trade transparent for buyers.

«The Parties have made it quite clear that there should be no trade in elephant ivory,» said Will Travers, CEO of the Born Free Foundation and president of the Species Survival Network.

China's ivory trade ban is now in effect, making it illegal to sell and buy ivory in the country.