Sentences with phrase «pro-legal ivory trade»

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.

Shutting down the world's largest ivory trade could effectively help prevent poachers from killing elephants for their tusks.

The World Bank loaned them $ 3 million to beef up their anti-poaching patrols, and no one in the government today seems deeply into the trophy or ivory trade, not with their coffee shambas paying off the way they are.

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.

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

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.

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.

Declining wildlife populations has exacerbated child slavery in Ghana, Somali piracy and the illegal ivory trade

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.

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.

The disrupted ivory trade, and perhaps losses at sea, couldn't have helped.

The African elephant is unlikely to survive in a world without an ivory trade ban.

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.

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.

As a result, the ivory trade is a significant threat to elephants» survival.

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 historic Kenyan burn aims to send a powerful message against elephant poaching and the illegal ivory trade, yet there is no evidence, so far, that these actions help reduce poaching,» Dr Biggs said.

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.

Such knowledge is essential if African countries and their supporters hope to enforce the ban on international ivory trading enacted 16 years ago.

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

Since U.S. Fish and Wildlife financed the study, it means that the U.S. government and taxpayers are paying for reopening the ivory trade.»

Paula Kahumbu, a science adviser to the Kenyan government, which opposes all ivory sales, views the new techniques more warily: «The suggestion that this DNA fingerprinting will, in essence, be used as a tool to help authorities to facilitate the ivory trade is scary.

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

«It's a double - edged sword,» says Julian Newman, a senior campaigner with the London - based Environmental Investigation Agency, which has tracked the ivory trade extensively.

For a few years, poaching declined, herds began recovering, and in 1997 USA Today proclaimed that «the illegal ivory trade has been virtually wiped out.»

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.

«I became totally disgusted with the ivory trade.»

(The illegal ivory trade has doubled globally since then, according to another study.)

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.

Of course, the ivory trade is only one part of a web of wildlife crime that is itself part of a global criminal network dealing in drugs, weapons and people.

«But until China and other countries do something to crack down on the ivory trade,» Roca said, «all the forensics in the world aren't going to stop elephants from being poached.»

Next week, three nations — Zimbabwe, Namibia, and South Africa — are expected to offer proposals for restarting a legal ivory trade.

For example, engineering biomarkers into tusks to track poaching, or more radically to alter tusks in a way that make them valueless to the ivory trade, which would allow male elephants to keep their large tusks — important indicators of good genes for mating.

Before Chinese demand for ivory began driving the black market and illegal killing of tens of thousands of elephants each year, it was Japan's market for hanko, personal seals used to sign contracts, that fueled the ivory trade.

«The abhorrent ivory trade should become a thing of the past,» Britain's environment secretary said Tuesday.

In spite of a global ban, the illegal ivory trade has exploded, with most of the demand coming from Asian countries, particularly China.

In 2015 sought «endangered» protections for Africa's savannah and forest elephants, with both species vanishing due to the illegal ivory trade.

Bigelow also directed and partnered with Annapurna on the animated short LAST DAYS, about illegal elephant poaching and the ivory trade.

While The Ivory Game's ambitiously broad look at the illegal ivory trade takes on a bit more than it needs to, it does shed some definite light on a growing global problem.