Sentences with phrase «legal ivory sales»
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The Chinese government enacted a ban on the commercial sale of elephant ivory last year, and the legal mammoth ivory market has been booming since.
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As part of the study, two experts manually classified items on sale in the antiques section of eBay, looking at the type of ivory and whether it was potentially legal or illegal.
IFAW argues that in online sales it's impossible to distinguish between legal ivory (antique pieces that predate strict trade treaties on endangered species) and modern, illicit ivory harvested by poachers.
Other elephant watchdogs worry that DNA tracking will prove too effective and spur more ivory trading by permitting legal sales — just as the South Africans hoped.
The Parties have made it quite clear that there should be no trade in elephant ivory... any legal trade in elephant ivory incentivizes elephant poaching and illegal ivory sales.
The sight of ivory openly on sale in many cities of Central and Western Africa sends a potent signal to poachers, smugglers and consumers that it is legal to buy and sell unregulated ivory, WWF warns.
«Any legal trade in elephant ivory incentivizes elephant poaching and illegal ivory sales.
While China argued that this would be an effective and legal way to maintain precious supplies of ivory — often used in traditional arts — many critics point out that the sale will only exacerbate the problem, driving up demand and leading to more poaching.