Sentences with phrase «wildlife trade monitoring»

TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network of WWF and IUCN, reports that while the number of seizures of ivory has remained relatively stable since the 1990s, the size of the seizures has grown significantly.

«While the issue of whether sales should be allowed to proceed or not has dominated much of the discussions here in Qatar, WWF and TRAFFIC believe the key driving force behind the ongoing elephant poaching is the continued existence of illegal domestic ivory markets across parts of Africa and Asia,» said Steven Broad, executive director of TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network of WWF and International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN.

Australia's Taronga Zoo and TRAFFIC, the international wildlife trade monitoring network have created an app that lets us do our part.

«The internet has without a doubt facilitated the huge expansion of illegal international wildlife trading over the last decade,» said Crawford Allan, of the wildlife trade monitoring network Traffic to The Guardian.

• An influential report by the wildlife trade monitoring group, TRAFFIC, supporting Japan's 1997 bid to reopen ivory trade found that Japan could not control ivory trade, but the conclusions were changed and supported Japan's successful bid to reopen ivory trade

Last year, some 24 tons of ivory was seized around the world — the product of an estimated 2,500 elephants — making it the worst year for elephant poaching since an international ban on commercial ivory trading began in 1989, according to Traffic, a wildlife trade monitoring network.

TRAFFIC, a wildlife trade monitoring network that is a partnership of conservation organizations, found the animals being offered for sale online in Europe.

Tom Milliken, leader of the elephant and rhino program for the international wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC, said Namibia had 1,750 black rhino as of the end of 2012 and the population has been steadily increasing under good management and protection.

Not exact matches

TRAFFIC is the wildlife trade - monitoring programme of the World Wide Fund for Nature and the World Conservation Union and aims to help ensure that wildlife trade is at sustainable levels.

No sure mortality estimates exist for the practice, but a report (pdf) issued by the wildlife trade — monitoring organization TRAFFIC estimates that 30 to 55 percent of all birds that enter the wildlife trade do not survive.

Although total numbers of trade posts are relatively small, the high proportion of wild collected orchids for sale supports calls for better monitoring of social media for trade in wild collected plants and other traded wildlife.

A booming trade in herbal remedies is threatening the survival of many medicinal plants found only in the wild, according to a study by TRAFFIC International, the organisation that monitors trade in wildlife.

A strange monitor lizard from Borneo has become popular in the wildlife trade, which could threaten its existence, a conservation organization is warning in a new report.

TRAFFIC, the arm of the World Wide Fund for Nature that monitors trade in wildlife, has claimed that the European Union needs to tighten up controls at its borders and to improve the training it gives to its customs officers.

Herein, we discuss the lack of a data system for monitoring the wildlife aquarium trade and analyze problems that arise when trying to monitor the trade using a system not specifically designed for this purpose.

Lin will study threatened marine wildlife in South China to address illegal trade of these species, and use research and monitoring to reduce poaching and expand conservation.

TRAFFIC's work to conserve Tigers TRAFFIC monitors wildlife markets in Asia and elsewhere, our experts identifying any Tiger parts being traded (there are many fake «Tiger parts» in circulation), and informing the appropriate authorities of required action to curb such trade.

Organized by TRAFFIC, a group that monitors the global trade of wildlife, the study found that 95 % of all poaching occurs in South Africa and Zimbabwe.

WWF, the wildlife charity, says the decision by the body which monitors illegal trade in endangered species to close the doors on its discussions over the ivory trade risk harming the body's credibility.