Sentences with phrase «trade in ivory came»
Former Kenyan president Daniel Arap Moi began incinerating stockpiles of ivory in 1989 at the same time as the ban on the international trade in ivory came into effect.
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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.
In spite of a global ban, the illegal ivory trade has exploded, with most of the demand coming from Asian countries, particularly China.
Msgr. Achilles Dakay, the archdiocese's media liaison officer, said Garcia's suspension came months before the priest was implicated by a National Geographic article in illegal trade of ivory in the Philippines.
He stressed that the investigation into Garcia's child abuse case came long before the monsignor was embroiled in controversy involving ivory trade.