Sentences with phrase «largest illegal ivory»

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«But when you look at large ivory seizures, which represent 70 percent of illegal ivory by weight, you get a different picture.»

Or it could be used as part of a series of forensic techniques to separate ivory obtained during legal culls — necessary to control some elephant large populations — from illegal poaching, says Elias Sideras - Haddad of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, who proposed a similar dating technique in 2001.

And the United States has emerged as one of the world's largest markets for ivory and other wildlife products, both legal and illegal.

«Japan's ivory controls are flawed and there is evidence that large amounts of illegal ivory... have been laundered into the domestic market,» said the report, which was co-authored by animal welfare group Humane Society International.

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.

EIA considers such a campaign tantamount to enacting a large - scale illegal ivory amnesty that will only serve to promote more ivory trade, counter to international efforts to close markets to protect elephants.

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.

This is the case in the U.S. ivory market — one of the largest in the world — where traffickers exploit regulatory loopholes in order to misrepresent illegal ivory as legal ivory.

The recovered items represent the largest seizure of illegal elephant ivory in New York State history.

The Government of Japan has announced its intention to launch an expanded tusk registration campaign nationwide that will increase demand for ivory in Japan, while legalizing large amounts of illegal ivory.

For example, in 2011 Takaichi Inc., Japan's largest manufacturer of ivory hanko name seals, was exposed for purchasing between 500 and 1600 illegal raw tusks.

Leading experts fighting ivory poaching recognize that success lies in stopping demand as much as it rests on seizing large shipments of illegal ivory.