Sentences with phrase «ivory trading began»
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.
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1482 - Portuguese settlers arrive and begin trading in gold, ivory and timber with various Akan states.
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.
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.»
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.
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.
Born out of the necessity of establishing a U.S. presence from its London sister - office, EIA US began as co-founders Allan Thornton and David Currey uncovered illegal ivory trade flows from Africa through the Middle East to supply markets in Asia.
«We hope this is only the beginning and as a next step the U.S. bans its domestic ivory trade,» said Paula Kahumbu, director of Kenya - based Wildlife Direct.