Sentences with phrase «wildlife products»

We must change our habits and behaviour so that demand for illegal wildlife products falls.

The move was prompted by a report this week exposing the scale of potentially illegal internet trade in wildlife products, and especially ivory.

The trafficking of illegal wildlife products threatens security, rule of law, and the survival of the species.

Could we manufacture wildlife products like ivory in a lab?

Calling it a «sobering and daunting crisis,» U.S. government officials announced today a national strategy to combat the surging trade in elephant ivory and other wildlife products.

It's pretty clear that without more effort in China to blunt the demand for illegal wildlife products from the bao fa hu, or «suddenly wealthy,» it'll be hard to stave off the slaughter of rare wildlife in Africa and southern Asia.

«Tackling the illegal wildlife trade will require a deep understanding of human behavior, of the poachers that engage in the supply side of the trade, and the consumers that drive the demand for wildlife products,» said Diogo Verissimo, David H. Smith Conservation Fellow, Johns Hopkins University.

The findings shed light on the market forces driving the movement of wildlife products around the globe, and indicate our understanding of illegal and legal wildlife trade is biased towards certain species and regions of the globe.

The discussion focuses on building national capacity to fight poaching on the ground, particularly in Africa, and the capacity for collaborative approaches to disrupting the criminal syndicates funneling illicit wildlife products from Africa and parts of Asia to widespread markets.

«EBay is the world's largest online marketplace and by default a significant channel for illegal trade in wildlife products on the Internet.»

IFAW says it tracked more than 7,000 wildlife product listings on 183 Web sites in 11 countries in compiling its report.

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

This episode begins with a discussion about the international trade in illegal wildlife and wildlife products featuring the President and CEO of International Fund for Animal Welfare, Azzedine Downes.

I have been documenting illegally traded wildlife products since August 2016 at borders and airport across the globe.

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.

And the United States has emerged as one of the world's largest markets for ivory and other wildlife products, both legal and illegal.

Driven by demand in expanding economies, the illegal trade in wildlife products threatens the survival of endangered species.

There are promising signs, including a set of meetings, described in March by China Daily, between Chinese and American officials pursuing ways to cooperate in stemming the trade in illicit wildlife products, including totoaba swim bladders (which often get to China through the United States).

In response, the United States enacted the Pelly Amendment to the Fishermen's Protective Act of 1967, which restricts the «importation of fishery or wildlife products from countries which violate international fishery or endangered or threatened species programs.»

In a new report by Interpol, the international policing agency is claiming that it has found evidence of illegal wildlife products being offered for sale on the darknet.

While there are mounting efforts to tackle illegal wildlife trade, including within Singapore to reduce demand for wildlife products, the illegal trade in some species still remains undocumented.

TERRI: If all the wildlife products are illegal, enforcement will become possible instead of impossible.

The United States is also often a transshipment point for wildlife products, other officials noted, with items being shipped into New York, for instance, and then reshipped to countries such as China.

The administration has formed a task force to create a national strategy to strengthen the enforcement of regulations concerned with the trade in wildlife products both in the United States and abroad.

Take firm action to stop poaching and illegal trade of snow leopards and other wildlife by adopting comprehensive legislation, strengthening national law - enforcement systems, enhancing national, regional, and international collaboration, and developing effective mechanisms to eliminate the illegal demand for snow leopard and other wildlife products.

Although the Lacey Act is a workhorse for wildlife conservation that we use to prevent the introduction and spread of damaging non-native species and to halt the illegal trade in wildlife and wildlife products, it gives us no emergency authority to immediately halt imports of salamanders.

In order to give elephants a fighting chance, EIA firmly believes that the legal markets that stimulate the demand for wildlife products and serve to launder illegal goods should be shut down immediately and that ivory trade should be banned in every country, especially in China, Japan, the United States, and European Union.