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IWMC - Letter to the Editor - St. Petersburg Times / 16 December 2005
African communities need the protein that elephant meat provides, and they wish to sell traditional ivory carvings from animals legally hunted. Some animals are professionally culled because they are identified as ... rights to utilize these animals for both their own sustenance and for the money that sales of their ivory can bring to the community. Some communities encourage targeted hunting of large ...
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IWMC.org - African Elephant & Ivory Trade
Namibia is concerned). In addition, Zimbabwe may export hides, as well as leather goods and ivory carvings for non-commercial purposes. On 18 March 1999, i.e. 18 months after the entry ... to international co-operation in law enforcement; 4) mechanisms exist to reinvest trade revenues (from ivory) into elephant conservation; 5) a mechanism has been agreed by the CITES Standing Committee to halt ...
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Our Family: Looking Both Ways
Richard Knecht. OBJECT LINKS WOVEN BASKET | WOMAN'S BOWL | WATER DIPPER | TOY KAYAK | TOY BOW | TOSSING DISKS | THREAD BOBBIN | SPOOL | SKIN BAG | SEAL BOWL | ROCK PADDLE | NOSE ORNAMENT | IVORY CARVINGS | GRASS MAT | GOAT HORN SPOON | GAME DISK | DOLL | DART GAME | CARVING TOOL | CARVING KNIFE | BIRD BOWL | BENTWOOD BOX | [SKIP BOTTOM NAVIGATION AND FOOTER] About this Project | Supplemental ...
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DSWF - CITES & SPECIES SURVIVAL NETWORK
Okahandja, a small town north of the capital Windhoek. An open unregulated market for other ivory carvings also exists in Namibia. Hundreds of items, ranging from statues to hanko blocks (used ... abroad. At its 13th conference in Bangkok in 2004, CITES gave Namibia approval to export ivory ekipas which are "individually marked and certified" and "incorporated in finished jewellery" for non-commercial ...
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Cameroon-Canada-U.S. Ivory Smuggler Gets Five Years
Ohio business owner's address. The shipment consisted of three wooden crates, with the raw ivory concealed inside terra cotta flower pots packaged within each crate. Also in 2003, additional shipments ... customers, including U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service special agents in New York. Raw elephant tusks, and elephant ivory carvings, were again concealed inside pottery and declared as art. Although the ...
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Fish and Wildlife Service
Canada, a partner in the United States, and, with the assistance ... U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service special agents in New York. Raw Elephant tusks, and elephant ivory carvings, were again concealed inside pottery and declared as art. By the end of 2003 ...
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Spirit & Enlightenment Cultural Entomology Digest 1
"Liang Shan-po and Zhu Ying-tai") Insects are found in a diverse spectrum of Chinese art and handicraft. Mirroring the people's love of insects, imagery can be found in ivory-carvings, paper-cuttings, iron-pictures, embroidery, chinaware and folk straw weaving. The artistic forms are generally life-filled and natural unlike ...
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EIA - The Environmental Investigation Agency: EIA 21
This will help reduce water, energy, and detergent use. Dont: Be tempted by souvenirs made from wild animal products, including skins, ivory, tortoise shell or bone. Buy any wooden carvings unless you know exactly where the wood is from. Buy any garments using 'Shahtoosh'. This wool comes from ...
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Arctic Studies Center - Ivory Harpoon Point
Carvings of spirit helpers on the harpoon further strengthened the power of the weapon; feathers and and wings transformed the harpoon head into swift birds of prey. Stylistic diversity and the absence of ...
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Mooseworld, Moose Biology with Kristine Bontaites
Our discussion group was contacted by a person who found some mysteriously shaped "stones" with perhaps Shaman-carvings on them...very old, maybe Indian stuff, maybe not. Some of us think they look like pieces of pottery, others think they look like broken ivory, since only part of the figure shows on one ...
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