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China Ivory Demand Bodes Ill for Africa's Elephants
Animals  (tags: china, ivory trade, demand, illegal, african elephants, slaughtered, massacred )

Simone
- 26 days ago - reuters.com
Tucked into a grimy building in Guangzhou, a small band of Chinese master carvers chip away at ivory tusks with chisels, fashioning them into the sorts of intricate carvings that were prized by Chinese emperors.
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IFAW: More Than 100 Elephants a Day Still Slaughtered By Poachers- 20 Years After Ivory Ban
Animals  (tags: african elephants, butchered, slaughtered, extinction, wild animals, 104 killed a day, tragedy, horrific )

Simone
- 47 days ago - politics.co.uk
Despite ivory trade being banned 20 years ago (today) a shocking 104 elephants are still being killed every day for their tusks.
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Elephants in Peril- Last Chance for Africa's Elephants
Animals  (tags: tragedy, african elephants, butchered, massacred, extinction, ivory trade, radio show )

Simone
- 118 days ago - bornfree.org.uk
On the show you will hear Dr Sam Wasser of Washington State University, Seattle, estimate the number of elephants that are killed each year at a staggering 38,000. His estimation is based on data collected by Born Free which, tragically, we believe to
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Survival of the African Elephant in Kenya- Please Sign PETITION
Animals  (tags: african elephants, kenya, poaching, hunters, villagers, protection, corridor, conservation, endangered, wildlife )

Simone
- 216 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
In order for the African elephant population to survive in Kenya, we need to open a corridor between Tsavo east and west national parks to Amboseli and the Masai Mara into Tanzania Serengeti, the migration, movement of the elephant is crucial as to find
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119 Tons of Ivory About to Be Auctioned?
Animals  (tags: African elephants, ivory, international sale, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 544 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
For the first time in nearly a decade, the international sale of ivory from endangered African elephants has been authorized by the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) Secretariat.
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Nearly Three Tons of Ivory Torched in Japan
Animals  (tags: African elephants, ivory, Japan, torched, animals, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 590 days ago - cnbc.com
A 2.8 ton ivory stockpile, confiscated in 2006 by Japan Customs in Osaka, has finally been incinerated -after previous reports that authorities were hesitating to do so. The record ivory haul represents the lost lives of hundreds of endangered African
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