Sentences with phrase «poaching crisis»

Members join us at the CORE: Club in New York City for a film screening and panel discussion highlighting the elephant poaching crisis in Africa.

«The news is likely to foster hopes for an eventual end to the elephant poaching crisis in Africa,» writes Denver.

In 1989, in response to the first global elephant poaching crisis of the 1970s and 80s, the international trade in ivory was banned.

This re-definition allows for a broader and more useful framework to investigate the multiple actors and activities which characterise the current poaching crisis.

WWF stated at the time «Ending ivory trade in Thailand — currently the world's largest unregulated ivory market — will go a long way in stemming a global poaching crisis that is leading to the slaughter of tens of thousands of elephants each year and fuelling a global criminal trade in animal parts.»

«The current African elephant poaching crisis requires an urgent and swift response before populations are wiped out.

By 1985 the elephants had gone through a massive decline due, down to an estimated 4,803, during the massive ivory poaching crisis sweeping Africa.

Given the scale of the current elephant poaching crisis across Africa, and the modus operandi of the trade, the scientists argued that U.S. must eliminate its parallel legal and illegal markets and the resulting opportunities for laundering illegal ivory.

Rakuten Ichiba sells thousands of elephant ivory products, made from the tusks of African elephants that are currently being slaughtered at the rate of up to 50,000 a year in the worst ever poaching crisis.

The elephant poaching crisis calls for serious action, and CITES ultimately provided very little.

(04/02/2014) At a time when Africa's elephants are facing a relentless poaching crisis, one community has managed to safeguard their elephants in the most unlikely of places: Mali.

New York passed an ivory trade ban in 2014, which has helped spur action to protect elephants from the current poaching crisis.

As a group of NGOs working together to halt the current elephant poaching crisis and campaigning to close the UK domestic market, we strongly welcome today's announcement by the Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for the Environment, of a comprehensive ban on the ivory trade in the UK.

The story was the first national Chinese media piece that identified Chinese demand and consumption as the main driver of the elephant poaching crisis.

In China, WCS focuses on mobilizing citizens from awareness to action on the poaching crisis.

The WCS campaign focuses on: securing effective U.S. moratorium laws; bolstering elephant protection with additional funding; and educating the public about the link between ivory consumption and the elephant poaching crisis.

The decline in the male white rhino population over time is attributed to the poaching crisis of the 1970s and 1980s that took place in various African countries.

From David Cameron to Stephen Fry to Damian Lewis, politicians, actors, musicians and artists - to name a few - have spoken out against the poaching crisis.

TRAFFIC's global elephant and rhino programme leader describes the current rhino and elephant poaching crisis, and the illegal trade in their horn and ivory that is driving this.

The World Wildlife Fund has released an excellent five - part video series on the poaching crisis.

More than 30,000 elephants are being killed each year for their ivory, fueling a poaching crisis in many African countries.

To bring global awareness to the elephant poaching crisis and the ivory trade through advocacy and media campaigns, educational outreach, and support for on the ground elephant conservation and anti-poaching efforts.

African elephants are undeniably in the midst of another poaching crisis — tens of thousands of elephants are be slaughtered annually in a killing spree fueled by the global demand for ivory.

The poaching crisis in Africa is number six on our annual top ten list.

WildAid's campaigns with high - profile ambassadors raise awareness about the poaching crisis in order to reduce consumer demand for ivory.

In the wake of the historic ivory crush, the United States must follow up with strong policies that will help crush the ivory trade and bring an end to the poaching crisis.

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.

From his blog: «Yao Ming travels to Africa for the first time to come face - to - face with some of the world's most majestic species — the elephant and the rhino - and to document the poaching crisis these creatures are facing as a result of growing demand for rhino horn and ivory products.»

But seizures have escalated dramatically in the last seven years, driven by Chinese consumption, which is exacerbating Africa's elephant poaching crisis, activists say.