Sentences with phrase «trade in ivory tusks»

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.

Although African elephants are listed as an endangered species, with between 500,000 and 600,000 left in the wild, some African countries continue to push for legalizing trade in ivory tusks.

Not exact matches

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.

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) today issued a new report charging that users of eBay.com are behind two thirds of the online trade in endangered animals worldwide, specifically, ivory made from tusks ripped from poached elephants.

LONDON (Reuters)- Online selling and weak controls on domestic ivory sales in Japan are spurring illegal international trade in elephant tusks and contributing to a steep rise in poaching, activists said on Tuesday.

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.

On Monday, however, the Chinese authorities received widespread plaudits when, in a first for the country, they destroyed more than six tons of confiscated ivory ornaments and tusks in Dongguan, a city in the southern province of Guangdong, which is a major hub for the ivory trade.

• That most of Japan's ivory tusk imports dating from before the 1989 ban on international trade in elephant ivory were from poached elephants.

Revelations of rampant fraud in the Japanese system coincide with a rapid rise in ivory trade in Japan and a poaching epidemic in Africa, where more than 30,000 elephants are being slaughtered each year for their tusks.

In accordance with its obligations under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), Japan agreed to require that all whole ivory tusks imported prior to the 1989 CITES international ivory trade ban and entering trade within Japan be registered with the governmenIn accordance with its obligations under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), Japan agreed to require that all whole ivory tusks imported prior to the 1989 CITES international ivory trade ban and entering trade within Japan be registered with the governTrade in Endangered Species (CITES), Japan agreed to require that all whole ivory tusks imported prior to the 1989 CITES international ivory trade ban and entering trade within Japan be registered with the governmenin Endangered Species (CITES), Japan agreed to require that all whole ivory tusks imported prior to the 1989 CITES international ivory trade ban and entering trade within Japan be registered with the governtrade ban and entering trade within Japan be registered with the governtrade within Japan be registered with the government.

«To show it is serious about stopping its illegal ivory trade problem, Japan needs to cease all registration of whole tusks immediately as a step in closing its domestic ivory market,» said Grabiel.

Six Japanese ivory trading companies that sell ivory via the popular shopping site Yahoo! Japan auctions offered to engage in illegal activities to buy, sell, acquire, or fraudulently register an unregistered ivory tusk.

Liberia has lost 95 % of its elephants to poaching since the 1980s — when the international ban on trade in ivory went into effect, and prior to which half of Africa's elephants had already been killed for their tusks.