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Animals News tagged with ivory trade

Poachers Kill 65 Elephants, 30 Rhinos in Zimbabwe: Official
Animals  (tags: elephants massacred, ivory trade, international crime sydnicate, poachers, wildlife, tragedy )

Simone
- 12 days ago - google.com
An international crime syndicate is behind an escalation in poaching in Zimbabwe which has slaughtered 65 elephants and 30 rhinos this year, a wildlife official said Monday. "From January to October this year we have lost 65 elephants through poaching
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Demand for Illegal Ivory Soars in Booming China
Animals  (tags: death, animals, animalwelfare, ivory trade, wildanimals, slaughter, wildlife )

Cal
- 12 days ago - independent.co.uk
Twenty years after a worldwide ban, there's a new black-market trade in elephant tusks from Africa
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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
- 18 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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ACTION ALERT: Tell the United States That Elephants Need More Protection at CITES!
Animals  (tags: cities, meetings, elephants, poaching, endangered, ivory trade, countries, ban ivory ban worldwide )

Simone
- 20 days ago - secure.humanesociety.org
The only way to end elephant poaching is to stop any further ivory trade and eliminate the market for ivory once and for all. We can start by getting countries to support the call by six African countries--Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, and Sierra
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IFAW's J. Leask on the 20th Anniversary of the Ivory Trade Ban
Animals  (tags: news, ifaw, animals, animalwelfare, ivory, ivory trade )

Katie
- 44 days ago - animalrescue.typepad.com
This month is the 20th anniversary of the start of the global ivory trade ban. In 1989, the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) gave elephants the highest level of protection, which effectively banned..........
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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
- 111 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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Elephants and the Ivory Trade (11 Pictures)
Animals  (tags: animals, elephants, ivory trade, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 153 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Conservation groups say elephant poaching and the illegal ivory trade are at their highest levels since a trade ban was introduced in 1989 and continues to threaten the survival of elephants in both Africa and Asia. Now China has been approved as a buyer
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Map of Elephant DNA Reveals Trail of Ivory Smugglers
Animals  (tags: animals, elephants, ivory trade, AnimalWelfare, killing, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 153 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Scientists have used a revolutionary genetic technique to pinpoint the area of Africa where smugglers are slaughtering elephants to feed the worldwide illegal ivory trade.
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Thailand a Hub for Growing Illegal Ivory Trade
Animals  (tags: thailand, ivory trade, report, elephants massacred, authorities, loopholes )

Simone
- 158 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Legal loopholes and insufficient law enforcement mean that Thailand continues to harbour the largest illegal ivory market in Asia, says a new report from the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC. The report also raises concerns that legal provisions
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ACTION ALERT: Stop South African's Elephants Killing!!!
Animals  (tags: south africa, ivory trade, authorities, elephants, slaughtered, conservation, protection )

Simone
- 172 days ago - newhopeunitedelephants.blogspot.com
Please join the worldwide plea to South African authorities: to remove culling as a "tool" in the National Norms and Standards for Elephant Management (NNSEM). Slaughter ought to be banned outright -- not used to control elephant populations on private,
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Mary Rice: 'One-Off' Legal Sale Has Done Nothing to Halt Smuggling
Animals  (tags: ivory trade, ivory selling, animal smuggling, poachers, destruction, elephants, slaughtered, countries )

Simone
- 226 days ago - independent.co.uk
The ivory trade is a polarised issue. It is also complicated by the raft of conflicting messages reverberating worldwide every time the members of Cites (Convention on Trade in Endangered Species) meet to discuss, and often agree, changes to the rules g
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Ivory Poaching on the Rise
Animals  (tags: elephants, disappearing, massacre, ivory poaching rising, ivory trade, tragedies, elephants killed )

Simone
- 226 days ago - nzherald.co.nz
Investigators have seized $51.5 million worth of illegal ivory in Southeast Asia in the past six weeks, including the third largest haul of elephant tusks on record. Customs officials in Vietnam last month discovered 1200 sections of tusks, from up to
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Ivory's Ghosts: White Gold and the Fate of the Elephant
Animals  (tags: elephants, massacred, history, fate of elephants, wildlife, tragedy, disappearing, ivory trade )

Simone
- 242 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
John Frederick Walker functions as a "memorist," with his soul rooted in centuries past, as he begins his tour de force examination of the history of ivory, humankind's lust for this exquisite treasure, and the demise of the elephant and human decency in
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AWF Responds to Elephant Poachings in Kenya
Animals  (tags: elephants, killing, Kenya, ivory trade, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals, death )

Cher
- 255 days ago - awf.org
Elephant killings in Kenya are spurring increased scrutiny of the illegal ivory trade and its effect on Africa's elephant populations.
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Save the World's Remaining Elephants
Animals  (tags: elephants, ivory trade, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 265 days ago - ifaw.org
Before the ivory trade was banned, many elephant populations were hunted to the brink of extinction. Now ivory dealers are plotting to reopen the trade, signaling peril for the endangered Asian and African elephants. Unless we take immediate action
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