Sentences with phrase «ivory trade receives»
* Illegal ivory trade receives a blow from a new genetic map of elephants across Africa.
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Yet one area of this booming illicit trade receives more attention than most: poaching for ivory and rhino horn.
Media coverage of the torching of huge caches of ivory presented a strong message against elephant poaching and ivory trade, but many of those who needed to hear it most may not have received it, an international study has found.
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.