Sentences with phrase «rhino horn ivory»

We need campaigns to educate [people], just as we need to work positively with those countries whose citizens provide the mass market for rhino horn ivory and increasingly, lion parts, to halt the demand,» said Dr. Jacobsohn.

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«Leopard - skin coats, ivory gewgaws and the Chinese belief in the medicinal properties of rhino horn.

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

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.

Vladimir Pitulko, of the Institute for the History of Material Culture in St. Petersburg, discovered spear foreshafts made of mammoth ivory and woolly rhino horn, stone tools, and bones that display signs of butchering.

Shortly before traveling to Miami for an antiques fair, Li texted his Queens, New York, art dealer that he had $ 500,000 to spend on rhino horns and ivory, prosecutors said.

When it comes to wildlife crime, it is easy to point the finger at Chinese demand for ivory, rhino horn and tiger penis while forgetting that all consumers contribute to some extent.

Poaching has surged in the last few years across sub-Saharan Africa, where gangs kill elephants and rhinos to feed Asian demand for ivory and horns for use in traditional medicines.

There is a deep cultural heritage and history around wildlife products such as elephant ivory and rhino horn in some parts of the world.

As revealed by a few simple searches on the Etsy marketplace for terms such as «pre-ban», «real leopard», «real ivory» or «rhino horn», there are currently several hundred products made with parts of endangered animals listed on the site — the vast majority of them labeled as «vintage», «pre-ban»...

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.

Atkins has shown her support for animal welfare by creating a bill that strengthened the ban on importing and selling ivory and rhino horns or products in California.

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Survived more than 30 years of work in some of the world's most dangerous places, only to be stabbed in his bed NAIROBI, Kenya ---- Nairobi police homicide detectives appear to believe that renowned elephant ivory and rhino horn trafficking investigator Esmond Bradley Martin Jr., 75, was murdered on February 5, 2018 in connection with a -LSB-...]

All countries you will visit have laws against the purchase and export of certain items, including antiquities, national cultural property and certain animal products, especially endangered species (ivory, rhino horn, tortoise shell, coral, feathers, etc.).

Operation COBRA II results in the seizure of 36 rhino horns, three metric tons of elephant ivory, 10,000 turtles, and 1,000 skins of protected species, as well as 10,000 European eels and more than 200 metric tons of rosewood logs, dealing a huge blow to criminals involved in the highly lucrative trade in illegal wildlife.

He followed a complex trail to expose a thriving laundering operation for African ivory and rhino horn from Vietnam to China.

«There's been an uninterrupted upsurge in illicit trade in ivory and rhino horns,» Mr. Milliken said.

In this case, airport scanners revealed the presence of hidden rhino horn and elephant ivory, but conservationists have no way of telling how many illegal goods slip under the radar.

In Kenya the problem as particularly acute among the elephant and rhino populations who are prized for their ivory tusks and horns.

Soon after my meeting with Hanks, in collaboration with Prince Bernhard he used the funds I had been told about to set up a unit of former SAS soldiers in apartheid South Africa to track down ivory and rhino horn poachers and traders in neighbouring countries.

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is in the process of implementing a near - total ban on elephant ivory and rhino horn trade to address loopholes that help smugglers move blood ivory into the United States.

Gambling on Extinction is a powerful documentary that explores the complexities of the illegal trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn, from the African sources to Asian markets.

Our programs persuade consumers not to buy illegal or unsustainable wildlife products, such as shark fin soup, ivory and rhino horn, and to make better transportation and food choices in order to reduce climate change impacts.

The brazen attack by Morgan and his crew also highlights the increasing clashes around the world between poachers, often backed by organized criminals, and wildlife rangers as demand for wildlife parts such as ivory, rhino horn, and tiger bones sky rocket.

«We have to take down the criminal syndicates behind the trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn, and enact a worldwide ban on all trade in ivory and rhino horn including domestic trade.

Along the same lines as a proposed ivory trade, a legal rhino horn trade directly conflicts with and undermines demand reduction strategies and serves as a means to launder illegally obtained products.

The last major bust in Hong Kong occurred in 2011, when officials seized a shipment of ivory and rhino horns valued at $ 2.2 million in Hong Kong dollars.

Demand for rhino horn, ivory and other products made from parts of tigers, turtles and other endangered species is increasing in China and the Far East as living standards rise.

It's also analogous to killing elephants for their ivory and rhinos for their horns: the rhino horns being ground up and marketed as traditional medicine, pushing the price to about $ 3,600 per ounce and decimating the species.

At the moment, trafficking in rhino horn and ivory is more lucrative than trafficking in cocaine.

It is not limited to rhino horn and ivory: lizards, snakes, tigers, birds, pangolins, fish stocks are also part of this global trade.

The prince has made videos with David and basketball star Yao Ming to try and put a stop to demand for rhino horn and ivory.