Sentences with phrase «rhino horn 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.

Vietnam's CITES Management Authority's International Cooperation Official Nguyen Thi Minh Thoung South Africa hosted several side events on rhinos, setting the stage for a proposal to legalize rhino horn trade, which is ludicrously argued as a «necessity» to save rhinos.

All rhinos are threatened by the rhino horn trade.

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.

Vietnam and China are currently the largest importers of poached rhino horn from South Africa, but both countries have increased enforcement against rhino horn trade in recent years.

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.

Not exact matches

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

Although rhinoceroses are endangered, legalizing the trade in rhino horns may be the best way to protect them from poachers.

Legalising the trade in rhino horn from South Africa could match black market supply and maybe even double it, with the aim of driving poachers out of business

Ironically, legalizing a highly regulated trade in rhino horns might actually end up saving the animals.

Cracking down on this has been difficult, with the illegal trade driven principally by the false belief that rhino horn can cure ailments from kidney stones to cancer.

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.

A small but notable victory in the fight against rhino poaching and the illegal trade in rhino horn: WWF reports that Chumlong Lemtongthai, a Thai national, has been given a sentence of 40 years in jail for trafficking rhino horns from South Africa.

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.

For more background on this illegal trade, read this piece be Jeffrey Gettleman: «Coveting Horns, Ruthless Smugglers» Rings Put Rhinos in the Cross Hairs.»

But since 1993 trade in rhino horn, (as well as tiger parts) was banned by the Chinese government with the aim of stopping the use of endangered wildlife derivatives in TCM: but advocates cling to historical evidence, knowing their ancestors used it, their parents, grandparents: the reason why it continues to be used today by many Chinese families.

With perfectly valid and cost effective herbal remedies, who exactly is benefiting from the trade in the prohibitively expensive rhino horn?

Constantly outgunned by poachers» high - tech helicopters, machine guns, night - vision binoculars, bullet - proof vests and insane arsenal in the illegal trade of «medicinal» rhino horns that are worth more than gold, one pissed - off game manager outside of Johannesburg, South Africa wants to do the unthinkable: inject poison into horns as a deadly warning to would - be poachers and the consumers who would buy them.According to South Africa's The Times, Ed Hern, owner of the Lion and Rhino Park outside of Johannesburg, says injecting poison into rhino's horns will protect them from poachers and kill the demand for rhino horn right at the source, which is prized as a medicinal ingredient in Asian medicine.

Environment Minister Edna Molewa put the moratorium on trade in place in 2009 after «pseudo-hunting» — where rhinos are hunted with a permit and their horns are laundered into the illegal trade — had spiralled out control.

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

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.

«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.

In 1994 LaBudde and ESP spearheaded efforts to expose Asia's illegal black market trade in endangered species which resulted in the U.S. implementation of trade sanctions against Taiwan for illegal commerce in rhino horn and tiger bone, and passage of domestic legislation in China, South Korea and Hong Kong to ban the trade.

Making matters worse, rhinos are among the most endangered species — with many populations facing near extinction.Rhino Horns Are Believed to be Medicine According to The Times, the unusually high number of rhinos being imported to China is the subject of a report to be presented at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, meeting next weekend.

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