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IWMC.org - African Elephant & Ivory Trade
The conditions to be met before any trade in raw ivory may resume can be summarized as follows: 1) deficiencies in enforcement and control measures, ... themselves 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 ...
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Sustainable solutions
CITES in 1997 allowing Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana to sell specified amounts of raw ivory from their ivory stores that emanated from natural mortality or problem animal control. Each of the ... issues that underpin wildlife protection. South Africa is proposing to sell a limited quantity of ivory and hides that will address both these issues Mohammed Valli Moosa is Minister of Environmental ...
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Rumble at The Hague : The US Position
Zimbabwe and South Africa are included in a proposal to establish annual quotas for export of raw ivory from elephants that have died of natural causes or have been culled as part of ... of a number of issues on the conference agenda, including poaching of elephants and trade in ivory, the need for enhanced law enforcement, and the importance of better compliance with CITES requirements for trade ...
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WWF - African elephants - Threats
Africa was taken illegally and over 80% of all the raw ivory traded came from poached elephants. This illegal trade was largely responsible for reducing the African elephant population to current ... in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora), there are still some thriving but unmonitored domestic ivory markets in a number of states, some of which have few elephants of their own ...
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DSWF - CITES & SPECIES SURVIVAL NETWORK
Middlemen involved in trafficking, interviewed in April 2007, described how raw ivory is being smuggled regularly into Namibia from Zambia and Angola hidden in sacks of ... 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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DSWF - CITES & SPECIES SURVIVAL NETWORK
Introduction Map of Projects ACAP CITES Cambodia ... taken home by tourists). Another proposal by Namibia to begin annual exports of 2 tonnes of raw ivory met resounding opposition, leaving a glimmer of hope that the 15 year ban on ...
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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 of ivory were sent to other customers, including U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service special agents in New York. Raw elephant ...
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Save the Elephants - Poaching in India to increase as China opens ivory market
The four African countries were allowed to sell a combined 108 tonnes of raw ivory as part of a one-off sale before a nine-year trade ban comes ... 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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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 one ... the CITES trade ban, international commercial trade in ivory has legally taken place only once, in 1997, when a one-off sale of raw ivory was approved for Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. The ...
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Save the Elephants - Sudan busts illegal ivory trading ring
Since 1989, an international ban has prohibited the sale of ivory in all but exceptional circumstances. Trade was halted after a dramatic fall in the world's ... since 1995. The conservation group has pointed to a thriving domestic ivory market in Sudan. It says much of the raw material originates in neighbouring countries, particularly the Central African Republic and ...
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