Sentences with phrase «of ivory trade»

The killing of 86 elephants, including pregnant cows, is evidence of the callous brutality demanded to feed the appetite of the ivory trade.»

(See pictures of the ivory trade around the world.)

The world anxiously anticipates the United States» proposed ivory rule and remaining details of the ivory trade ban, particularly because the world's leading trader in illegal ivory, China, is apparently awaiting U.S. action before banning its own ivory trade.

«Japan is awash with ivory of dubious legality and fraud, and abuse of ivory trade controls are rampant,» Thornton continued.

It is worth having an introductory talk about why elephants are hunted, and the abolition of the ivory trade in 1990.

The Ivory Game is a powerful, important and thrillingly - told documentary which exposes the tragic realities of the ivory trade which still persists today.

A 1999 report estimated that at the peak of the ivory trade poachers took 1,000 tons of ivory from Africa each year.

Environmental journalist Girling ponders the many ways humans have steadily deteriorated biodiversity in our attempt to catalog and conquer the natural world, from bloody quests that stocked early zoos to the current ravages of the ivory trade.

Not exact matches

After interacting with local rangers and wildlife experts and sensing the urgency of the situation, Slash and fellow band mate Myles Kennedy were inspired to write «Beneath the Savage Sun,» a new song from his latest solo album that illustrates the brutal ivory trade from an elephant's point of view.

Highlights include clay model equivalents of firka paintings, depictions of Indian costumes, trades and professions, finely - wrought silver and copperware, votive bronzes, fossils and minerals, delicate ivories, and models of temples made from pith.

They usually built their towns on islands adjoining the mainland for purposes of defense against the tribes of the hinterland, settled down and married African women, and traded in gold, slaves, ivory, and other African products.

Divers have found a profusion of knife blades, ivory combs, needles, crucifixes and religious medals — items that were obviously made in the Old World for trade in the New.

The campaign aims to help the endangered animals in their homeland, educate the public about the damage ivory consumption does to elephant populations and secure a moratorium on ivory trading in the U.S., the world's second largest importer of ivory.

Yet one area of this booming illicit trade receives more attention than most: poaching for ivory and rhino horn.

If true, dismantling the ivory trade provides a potent counterterrorism policy, and one worthy of national and international resources.

The harsh environment in which they operate, deprived of natural resources or infrastructure to raid (such as in eastern DRC or the Niger delta), makes ivory and rhino horn trade that much more important.

They're pushing for several pieces of legislation regarding animal cruelty, from how domestic cases are handled by law enforcement to ending the ivory trade market.

Outgoing Assemblyman Bob Sweeney said a three - way deal has been reached on to inhibit the trade of elephant ivory and rhinoceros horns in New York — a main goal of his.

Nearly two tons of trinkets, statues and jewelry crafted from the tusks of at least 100 slaughtered elephants are heading for a rock crusher in New York City's Central Park to demonstrate the state's commitment to smashing the illegal ivory trade.

Millions of dollars of ivory was destroyed in Central Park on Thursday as the state fights for elephants and against illegal ivory trade.

The prince says that he wants to see an end to the ivory trade, which could wipe out what remains of herds of African and Asian elephants, not just for this generation but also for his son and his son's children.

It is, therefore, fitting that one of the leading proponents against the ivory trade recently — along with David Beckham and Jackie Chan, who, one could argue, are «royalty» in their own rights — is the future King of England and heir to the colonial legacy, Prince William.

Determining the levels of radioactive isotope in ivory should allow us to find out whether it is being illegally traded.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has set fire to 11 giant pyres of elephant tusks to show his country's resolve to stamp out the illegal ivory trade and save elephants.

Measurements of salt particles in ice cores suggest that storminess rose toward the end of the occupation, perhaps making voyages to hunt and trade walrus ivory even more dangerous.

Fitzhugh of NMNH, for one, questions the reconception of the colony as an ivory - focused trading post and still thinks farming was more important.

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) today issued a new report charging that users of eBay.com are behind two thirds of the online trade in endangered animals worldwide, specifically, ivory made from tusks ripped from poached elephants.

In 1989, after the number of African elephants had declined from 1.3 million to 600,000 in less than a decade, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) banned all international trade in iTrade in Endangered Species (CITES) banned all international trade in itrade in ivory.

(Trade in mammoth ivory is legal because woolly mammoths are extinct and therefore not at risk of becoming endangered.)

It also would have hampered protection of other threatened species and blocked tougher restrictions on the ivory trade.

Within this framework, the international ban on the ivory trade has created an environment favourable to the conservation of elephants.

It would have been better if the authors had been more cautious in their subsequent analysis, but unfortunately their report concludes that the «international ivory trade ban has not halted the illegal offtake [killing] of elephants».

The researcher notes «in the light of the recent killings of elephants in the state for ivory trade and during conflicts, Sabahans must realise that it is their natural patrimony that is targeted, they need to stand for their wildlife and condemn those who kill those magnificent creatures.

History has taught us that numbers alone are no defense against attrition from the ivory trade, and this new work confirms that elephant numbers are decreasing in East, Central and Southern Africa,» said co-author Iain Douglas - Hamilton, founder of Save the Elephants.

* Illegal ivory trade receives a blow from a new genetic map of elephants across Africa.

And as long as there is a form of legal ivory trade, conservationists fear the illegal elephant ivory trade will continue.

University of Toronto archaeologist Timothy Harrison and colleagues are excavating a temple in the Tell Tayinat region of Turkey, built around 800 B.C. Though this time was thought to be a dark age when trade between Greece and the Middle East nearly ground to a halt, Harrison says that his finds — including ivory carvings, precious metal foils, and pottery — are a clear indication of cultural and economic exchange among cultures such as the Hittites, Aegeans, and Semites.

Members of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature World Conservation Congress, happening this week in Honolulu, will decide on Motion 7, whichwould call on the IUCN to encourage governments to shut down the ivory trade — and provide help in doing so.

University of Washington biologist Samuel Wasser is a pioneer in using DNA evidence to trace the origin of illegal ivory and help police an international trade that is decimating African elephant populations.

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.

Media coverage of the torching of huge caches of ivory presented a strong message against elephant poaching and ivory trade, but many of those who needed to hear it most may not have received it, an international study has found.

The ivory burning event comes in the wake of a front - page story in the influential Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly last November about the ivory trade.

According to a 2013 study by the University of Washington, the annual number of African elephants being slaughtered to supply the illegal ivory trade is estimated to be as high as 50,000, or roughly one sixth of the continent's remaining elephant population.

In response, FWS will impose a ban on the commercial trade of elephant ivory within the United States, including resale and exports.

As a result, there has been an «escalating criminalization» in the trade of ivory and rhinoceros horn, Ashe said.

The illegal ivory trade threatens the persistence of stable wild elephant populations.

The funding of Boko Haram's atrocities by the illegal ivory trade show that poaching is not just a problem for conservationists, but for all of us

People in New York City's Times Square will witness plumes of pulverized bone erupt as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service crushes one ton of confiscated ivory Friday to protest the illegal poaching of African elephants for the ivory trade.

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The Lewis Chessmen, an exquisite set of 12th century chess pieces worked out of walrus ivory and whales» teeth, are widely believed to have been crafted in the Trondheim / Nidaros area, and traded away.