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April 1991
Law Enforcement, Community Service, and Conservation Education Program, and the International Ivory Ban. When we arrived in 1986, there were only seven game guards in the Mano Unit ... the most notorious poaching villages in this part of Africa. At least six infamous, large scale ivory poachers lived in the village. They hired the local men, even young sixteen year old boys ...
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February 1992
Many authorities and agencies believe that the ban may prevent the outright extinction of the African elephant. These include Richard Leakey, director of ... the government of Tanzania, the African Wildlife Foundation, the World Wildlife Fund, and others. BUT THE IVORY BAN MAY SOON BE REVERSED: On March 2nd, 1992 CITES will vote on whether to ...
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EIA - The Environmental Investigation Agency: Elephants Campaign | Campaign Index
Hundreds of thousands of African elephants were slaughtered during the 1980s to supply the insatiable ... of the Far East. With the help of committed conservationists our campaign paved the way for the 1989 international ivory ban. Poaching levels plummeted as a result. EIA continues to defend the ban ...
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EIA - The Environmental Investigation Agency: Elephants Campaign | Campaign News
Honour for outstanding contributions to the protection of the environment. Press Release: 15 Apr 00 Environmental Investigators Reveal Resurgent Ivory Trade As UN Conference Prepares To Decide Fate Of Elephants London, 4th April 2000 (EIA): - The decision to overturn the international ivory ban in 1997 has led to renewed elephant poaching and a series of major illegal ivory seizures, ...
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The End of Fortress Conservation?
It has virtually wiped out commercial poaching in an area once known as 'The Second Ivory Coast'." And this is not just the Foundation blowing its own horn. The project has received a ... our detractors stand to gain huge sums from the sale of stockpiled and newly poached ivory if the CITES ivory ban is reversed; others fervently desire to shoot Endangered Species, and know that we oppose ...
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Tropical timber import export Africa Asia volume Ivory Coast Cote Ivoire France
(Cte d'Ivoire) The post-Independence government permitted a major expansion in the commercial exploitation of Ivory Coast's forests, so much so that the country became much the leading exporter of tropical timber in ... appears to have taken up the slack created by France's (and others') response to the ban on log exports that became effective in the late 1990s - France's primary interest in African ...
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Tropical timber import export Africa Asia volume Ivory Coast Cote Ivoire France
Tropical timber import export Africa Asia volume Ivory Coast Cote Ivoire France Liberia Liberia Liberia exported negligible quantities of timber during the mid-1990s - primarily on account of political instability. More recently, a "strong man" emerged and the timber industry was expanded rapidly, primarily through the operations of at least one (ethnic Chinese) company new to the country. This ...
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Save the Elephants - Poaching in India to increase as China opens ivory market
Ashok Kumar, vice chairman of the ... seizures and the volume of trade increased manifold after Japan was allowed to buy African ivory. Article at the following link: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Earth/Elephant_poaching_in_India_to_increase/articleshow/3341305.cms Go ...
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Save the Elephants - Sudan busts illegal ivory trading ring
KHARTOUM (AFP) -- Sudan announced on Wednesday a Khartoum police swoop busting an illicit ivory trading ring, seizing more than 470 pieces and arresting an unspecified number of suspects. The ... released and police were not reachable for comment. Since 1989, an international ban has prohibited the sale of ivory in all but exceptional circumstances. Trade was halted after a dramatic fall in ...
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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 the ... end elephant poaching is through an effective clampdown on illegal domestic ivory markets. Since the CITES trade ban, international commercial trade in ivory has legally taken place only once, in 1997, when a ...
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