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Tories Criticise UK for Failing to Support 20-Year Ban on African Ivory Sales
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, ivory, poaching, death, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 13 hours ago - guardian.co.uk
UK government 'shamefully' refuses to support Kenyan proposal for a ban aimed at reducing elephant and rhino poaching
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New Analysis Points to Ivory Enforcement Failures in Parts of Africa, Asia
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Cher
- 1 day ago - panda.org
Urgent law enforcement action by governments in Central and West Africa and South-east Asia is crucial to addressing the illicit ivory trade, according to a new analysis of elephant trade data
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African Countries' Proposal to Allow One-Time Sale of Elephant Ivory Stirs Controversy
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, elephants, ivory, protection, environment )

Cher
- 6 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Tracking the wounded elephant to its deathbed was easy for the ranger. Hit by a poison arrow, the huge mammal could only drag its hind leg, creating a wide gash across the bush.
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Scientists Protest Proposed Ivory Auction
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, elephants, auction, ivory, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 6 days ago - treehugger.com
Tanzania and Zambia, conservationists fear, may receive special permission from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to auction off a combined total of 112 tonnes of stockpiled ivory.
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Stop the Slaughter of Elephants for Ivory ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, ivory, slaughter, elephants, environment, death, protection, wildlife, suffering )

Cher
- 9 days ago - secure2.convio.net
On March 13, 2010, delegates from 175 countries will take part in the 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in Doha, Qatar. They will consider dozens
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Kenya and Tanzania Disagree on Ivory Trade
Animals  (tags: Kenya, Tanzania, disagreement, CITES, elephants, ivory, Doha, Qatar, 15th convention, endangered animals, ban, confiscated, AEC, deal, sale, Kenya Wildlife Service, SSN, protection, conservation )

Naoko
- 26 days ago - allafrica.com
Lobbying on the status of international trade in ivory has intensified ahead of next month's 15th Convention Of International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Doha, Qatar.
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Help Stop The Bloody Ivory Trade ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, killing, elephants, ivory, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 30 days ago - change.org
The image of elephant carcasses is a haunting one. Lifeless bodies strewn across the African Savannah, their faces literally sawed off for their tusks. Did they suffer when the first bullet pierced their skin? The second? Did they leave behind a baby,
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Support the African Coalition in Urging the EU to Block New Ivory Sales ! TAKE ACTION !
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Cher
- 36 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The 19 state African Elephant Coalition are asking the European Union to take a clear stance in support of a nine-year moratorium adopted in 2007 by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
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Indictments in Smuggling of African Elephant Ivory
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, elephants, smuggling, ivory, environment, killing, wildlife, protection, death )

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- 58 days ago - courthousenews.com
Two men have been indicted for running a smuggling business bringing African elephant ivory into the United States, part of a multi-billion-dollar black market in wildlife that continues to decimate an African elephant population now numbering less than
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Asia's Greed for Ivory Puts African Elephant at Risk
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Cher
- 59 days ago - all-creatures.org
Slaughter by poachers intensifies as governments seek to increase legal sales...Elephants are intelligent animals whose sophisticated social ties are exploited by poachers. They will often shoot young elephants to draw in a grieving parent, which is
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Asia's Greed for Ivory Puts African Elephant at Risk
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Simone
- 61 days ago - guardian.co.uk
There has been a massive surge in illegal ivory trading, researchers warned last week. They have found that more than 14,000 products made from the tusks and other body parts of elephants were seized in 2009, an increase of more than 2,000 on their
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The War on Ivory
Animals  (tags: ivory, elephants slaughtered, illegal trade, wildlife trade, crime syndicates, greed, conflicts )

Simone
- 85 days ago - animalwelfare.change.org
A recent analysis of seized ivory records shows a disturbing increase in the illegal trade. According to WWF, this pattern suggests more activity from organized crime syndicates, which seem to have become stronger in the past decade.
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Suspect Poacher Arrested and Ivory Recovered
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, elephants, ivory, poaching, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 91 days ago - maasailand.wildlifedirect.org
I was just informed that a team of our Mbirikani Community Game Scouts (MCGS) arrested one man in possession of poached ivory, in a joint operation with the Kenya Wildlife Service.
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Multinational Operation Against Wildlife Crime Nets 500 Kilos of Ivory in East Africa
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, wildlife crime, ivory, environment, protection, wildlife, killing )

Cher
- 106 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Tons of illegal ivory have been seized and hundreds of people arrested in the largest international operation targeting wildlife crime across Eastern Africa to-date. Kenya Wildlife Service, the Lusaka Agreement Task Force and Kenya Police played a
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Nearly 2 Tons of Ivory Seized in Eastern Africa
Animals  (tags: animals, elephants, ivory, animal skins, poachers, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, protection, wildlife, endangered, killing )

Dee
- 108 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Kenya- African authorities raided shops, intercepted vehicles at checkpoints and used sniffer dogs to detect and seize over 3,800 pounds (1,768 kilograms) of illegal elephant ivory in a six-nation operation, Interpol and the Kenya Wildlife Service said..
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