Sentences with phrase «trade in ivory after»

This debate has been waxing and waning since at least 1989, when the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) voted to «ban» the international trade in ivory after a ferocious wave of poaching in Africa that left hundreds of thousands of elephants butchered.

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He claimed the Japanese demand for ivory would continue unchanged and illegal trade would escalate out of control — a theory utterly disproved in the two years after the ivory ban was agreed later that year.

WASHINGTON, DC - The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is calling for the closure of Japan's domestic ivory market after new evidence of illegal trade in ivory tusks was linked to the Ministry of Environment's tusk registration scheme.