Sentences with phrase «ivory tusks»

Yahoo! Japan continues to sell large quantities of ivory products on its online auction and shopping sites including whole tusks and hanko name seals, which are often associated with ivory tusks of illegal origin.

WASHINGTON, DC — The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today condemned the Government of Japan's decision to launch a nationwide ivory tusk registration campaign characterizing it as a large - scale amnesty of illegal ivory.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department recently announced it obtained evidence suggesting that government - contracted Japan Wildlife Research Centre (JWRC) and ivory trader «Raftel» colluded to illegally register ivory tusks.

The DEC is planning a public crushing of illegal ivory tusks, trinkets, statues, jewelry and other decorative items it has confiscated over the years in Central Park on Aug. 3 at 10:30 a.m.

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.

In accordance with its obligations under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), Japan agreed to require that all whole ivory tusks imported prior to the 1989 CITES international ivory trade ban and entering trade within Japan be registered with the government.

Six Japanese ivory trading companies that sell ivory via the popular shopping site Yahoo! Japan auctions offered to engage in illegal activities to buy, sell, acquire, or fraudulently register an unregistered ivory tusk.

Apparently their Sunday school teachers never explained the connection between ivory tusks and penises.

They returned with countless walrus snouts, whose ivory tusks they removed and prepared for trade with Europe.

I had a set of teak elephants with real ivory tusks that were a wedding gift.

Writers At Work picture credit Analyzing a novel is like being in the Blind Men and the Elephant story: not only are there different ways to view a novel, but in seeing it through only one perspective, we can lose sight of the whole experience of the novel as an integrated beast with a long rope - like tail, smooth ivory tusks, and thick leathery... Read More

View of conservatory with elephant hung and ivory tusk mounted below, 1928.

The ivory trade is the commercial, often illegal trade inthe ivory tusks of the hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal, [1] mammoth, [2] andmost commonly, Asian and African elephants.

Many ivory tusks registered in Japan are cut up and made into hanko name seals and sold on online shopping sites.

Japanese Minister of Environment, Masaharu Nakagawa, announced on August 29th that the ministry is launching a campaign to promote the registration of privately - held ivory tusks.

Before elephants and other species used as ivory sources were recognized as endangered, trinkets like the carved ebony elephants with tiny ivory tusks (pictured at top) were common, and legal.

«Japan's ivory tusk registration scheme is a poacher's paradise, allowing vast amounts of illegal tusks to be legalized for sale on Japan's domestic market,» said EIA president, Allan Thornton.

• That most of Japan's ivory tusk imports dating from before the 1989 ban on international trade in elephant ivory were from poached elephants.

EIA first reported in 2015 that Japan's tusk registration scheme was rife with fraudulent declarations that allowed undocumented illegal ivory tusks to be legalized for sale onto Japan's domestic market.

WASHINGTON, DC - The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is calling for the closure of Japan's domestic ivory market after new evidence of illegal trade in ivory tusks was linked to the Ministry of Environment's tusk registration scheme.

Genetic evidence could prove key in halting the illegal slaughter of Africa's elephants for their ivory tusks

Many interesting topics are addressed, including elephants» ivory tusks, their excellent memory and the term «white elephant.»

«A Burnt Ship» catalogs the spilled belongings from a ship's hold («sunken masks, / god's horn, perfume, ivory tusks, / market dust»), before erupting in the expected, yet still unsettling conclusion that «all were lost, all were destroyed.»

In Kenya the problem as particularly acute among the elephant and rhino populations who are prized for their ivory tusks and horns.

«This unknown ivory carver... has created this almost three - dimensional sculpture out of half of an ivory tusk.

The style embraced new materials including molded bubble glass, animal horns, ivory tusks and semiprecious stones.

Expecting to find perhaps a few bad actors, the investigators instead discovered that the majority (80 percent) of ivory traders they spoke with were willing to engage in illegal tusk registration activity, ranging from purchasing an unregistered ivory tusk of unknown origin, to registering ivory tusks through the use of false information.

In Kenya the problem as particularly acute among the elephant and rhino populations who are prized for their ivory tusks and horns.

TOKYO — Japan's ivory tusk registration system is awash with fraud, fueling illegal ivory trade and undermining international action to protect Africa's disappearing elephants under pressure from intense ivory poaching.

In recent years, up to 33,000 African elephants have been killed annually for their ivory tusks.

«It is very telling that the Government of Japan is launching this campaign without making reforms to the ivory tusk registration scheme,» said EIA senior policy analyst Danielle Grabiel.

More than 30,000 iconic elephants are slaughtered annually to feed the world's appetite for their ivory tusks — and this poaching crisis is escalating.