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Save the Elephants - Sudan busts illegal ivory trading ring
Save the Elephants > Communication > Elephant News Service > News reader Sudan busts illegal ivory trading ring Sudan busts illegal ivory trading ring Agence France Presse AUgust 6, 2008 KHARTOUM (AFP) -- Sudan ... 554,973 African elephants alive, compared to 1.2 million in the late 1970s. Although ivory sales have dropped markedly in Europe, North America and Japan, the commodity is still in ...
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Ecobeetle's Endangered Species - African Elephant - Conservation Information,Pictures,Facts,Links,Books
Hunting of the African elephant is now banned in several countries but the most serious threat today to the African Elephant is from illegal ivory poaching. Following Photos courtesy and copyright Darren New. Used with permission. African Elephant Conservation Links The African Elephant Conservation Trust The SSC African Elephant Specialist Group The African ...
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June 1992
Zimbabwe and South Africa, who have strong conservation policies, a chance to profit from the ivory trade. We and many other conservation organizations pointed out to them that South Africa is the ... ivory. And, in any case, if the ban had been reversed, a legal and illegal ivory trade would have opened again, and poaching would have increased dramatically. We did everything we could think of ...
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DSWF - Saving critically endangered mammals in the wild
Savuti Elephants limited to only 55 artist signed copies click here ... Artist of the Month - Jonathan Truss Originals Limited Editions Campaigns & Appeals DSWF reveals illegal ivory trade - click here ... "Hell of a Cure" Rescuing China's moon bears ... Conservationists Call on China to Support Law Over Tiger Farms ... Secret life of desert rhino revealed ... ...
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EnviroZine - Previous Issues
Smog Over Vancouver? Helping Communities Create a Healthy Environment Navigating The St. Lawrence On-Line Issue 2 - January 15, 2001 Top 10 Weather Stories of 2000 Purloined Pachyderm Parts Pinched: Canada's Largest Seizure Of Illegal Ivory The Marmot - Canada's Most Endangered Mammal Issue 1 - December 18, 2000 Is Your Fireplace Santa Claus Friendly? Climate Change ...
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Elephant ivory
Recent Seizing of illegual Ivory 2002. More than 16 tonnes of illegal ivory seized in Customs operations around the world. 2002.Save The Elephants (STE) Factsheet (The Ivory Markets of East Asia) ... . 2002. Save The Elephants (STE) reports that, between 1996 and September 2002, 45 tonnes of ivory was seized by authorities destined for China. Webdesign by Aumpage Network Taxonomy How it started ...
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The wrongs and rights of ivory sales
CITES. At the current gathering, now taking place in The Hague, the sale of elephant ivory has been high on the agenda. On June 2nd, CITES approved international sales of 60 tonnes ... green Olympics" next year will end up unwittingly taking home poached elephant ivory. *"Made in China: How China's Illegal Ivory Trade is Causing a 21st Century African Elephant Disaster", Environmental Investigation ...
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Cameroon-Canada-U.S. Ivory Smuggler Gets Five Years
Canada and Cameroon that were fronts for smuggling raw elephant ivory has been sentenced to five years in prison and a $100,000 fine for smuggling ivory ... by soliciting local artists and craftsmen, operatives within international commercial shipping companies, contacts in the illegal ivory trade, a partner in Canada, and a partner in the United States. She operated ...
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Save the Elephants - Poaching in India to increase as China opens ivory market
South Africa and Zimbabwe. China is considered the world's largest ivory market. Conservationists here said it would enthuse the illegal ivory market in China that could lead to increased poaching in ... committee revised its position and allowed Namibia and Zimbabwe to sell 34 tonnes of registered ivory stocks to Japan. These southern African countries saw an increase in elephant population in the ...
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Ivory scoop for China
Central Africa where elephant poaching is rampant and Chinese nationals have been implicated in moving ivory out of the region. China thus joins Japan in having CITES approval to bid in ... of WWF Internationals Species Programme. The only way to end elephant poaching is through an effective clampdown on illegal domestic ivory markets. Since the CITES trade ban, international commercial trade in ...
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