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The wrongs and rights of ivory sales
The wrongs and rights of ivory sales 7 June, 2007 HOME The wrongs and rights of ivory sales ... ivory have been used to smuggle illegal ivory. Another fear is that ivory sales may fuel the demand for ivory products. This is harder to gauge, but it is clear that current exemptions to the ivory ...
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EIA - The Environmental Investigation Agency: Elephants Campaign | Campaign Index
China Gaining Trading Partner Status in the Forthcoming One-Off Ivory Sales 12 Sep 05 Why the Elephant is Important to the ... on ivory trade is now undermined by recent decisions in 1997 and 2002 by the international community, allowing one-off sales of ivory. Hundreds of thousands of African elephants were slaughtered during the 1980s to supply the insatiable demand of the world's ivory ...
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EIA - The Environmental Investigation Agency: Elephants Campaign | Campaign News
Jun 07 IVORY TRADE: Deal Provokes Mixed Feelings African countries have finally agreed on ivory sales – though not without ... the one-off ivory sales loom, levels of illegal ivory trade continue to rise, prompting new calls for the adoption of an holistic appraoch to elephant conservation and ivory trade Campaign Update: ...
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Environment News Service News Index June 2007
Complex Energy Bill Annan to Head Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa African Elephant Ivory Sales Allowed Before Renewed Ban AmeriScan: June 13, 2007 Schwarzenegger Says Tailpipe Emissions Lawsuit Inevitable ... 's Most Southerly Elephants Survive Against All Odds CITES Permits 60 Tons of Elephant Ivory to Be Sold Hundreds Hurt as G8 Protesters Clash With Police Louisiana Lawmakers Approve ...
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IWMC.org - Letter to the Editor - New York Times / 03 October 2002
By supporting a ban on ivory trade in 1989, the U.S., at no economic cost to itself, succeeded in appearing ... . Far from being a success, the ban shut down successful conservation programs that used limited ivory sales to maintain healthy elephant populations. These programs were geared to the reality, so often brushed ...
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Africa on the Matrix: The Elephant – The World's Largest Land Animal
Tanzania, elephants suffered mightily from years of poaching for their ivory tusks. Some figures indicate that 80% of the former ... wiped out. Since the international ban on the sale of ivory went into effect, the elephant has made a remarkable ... ivory sales will be lifted for some countries that demonstrate they have poaching under control. Botswana is expected to qualify and the proceeds of the sales ...
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Protect elephants
The financial sacrifice of giving up ivory sales ... ivory sales of which we hear so much is in fact negligible if set against other items in any national budget. The loss of $3 million on revenue from ivory sales ... its elephants, the loss of revenues from suspending ivory sales is hardly an obstacle. Arguments that depend ...
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Snow Leopards Earn Their Keep in Tourist Dollars Gharials critically endangered Huge ivory seizure in Bangalore Combating Climate Change Given Big Confidence Boost in Canada 400 Bears ... parts flayed China tiger trade ban won't last: official The wrongs and rights of ivory sales Too cute for comfort Elephant deaths alarm Karnataka officials BRT Tigers under increasing threat ...
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Save the Elephants - Sudan busts illegal ivory trading ring
Elephants > Communication > Elephant News Service > News reader Sudan busts illegal ivory trading ring Sudan busts illegal ivory trading ring Agence France Presse AUgust 6, 2008 KHARTOUM (AFP) -- Sudan announced ... 554,973 African elephants alive, compared to 1.2 million in the late 1970s. Although ivory sales have dropped markedly in Europe, North America and Japan, the commodity is still in ...
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Ivory scoop for China
China has acted rather successfully against its own illegal domestic ivory market,” said Tom Milliken of TRAFFIC ... g. problem animal control). None of the ivory is from elephants deliberately killed to obtain their ivory. A massive illegal trade in ivory caused dramatic declines in many elephant populations ...
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