Sentences with phrase «ivory trading licenses»

As part of the plan, all ivory trading licenses will expire on December 31st, 2021, giving domestic ivory traders five years to liquidate their stocks.

Not exact matches

by Walter Chaw David Yates's The Legend of Tarzan is at once a long - overdue, if massively - fictionalized, biopic of George Washington Williams's time in the Congo observing colonial Belgium's abuses of the rubber, ivory, and diamond trades; and it's an adaptation, nay, updating of Edgar Rice Burroughs's first five Tarzan books, with heavy creative license taken but the spirit kept largely intact.

Following the ban, Hong Kong issued possession licenses to traders, allowing ivory obtained before 1976 (before CITES provisions became applicable to elephants) to be freely traded, and ivory imported before 1990 (pre-ban ivory) to be traded within Hong Kong.