Trafficking Poached Ivory
Trafficking Poached Ivory - National Geographic Education
According to TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring partnership between the World Wildlife Fund and the International Union for Conservation of ...
Stopping Elephant Ivory Demand | Initiatives | WWF
in parts of Asia, has fueled this rampant poaching epidemic. The elephant ivory ... ivory trafficking. WWF is working directly with these countries to support ...
The global ivory trade and elephant poaching have remained key wildlife conservation issues for decades. Our insights on domestic markets, ...
Saving elephants from the ivory trade - EIA
African elephants are at risk of extinction, primarily due to the poaching that feeds the ivory trade.
Fighting the Ivory Trade | U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Staggering black market prices in Asia for the white gold entices poachers. Ivory can fetch up to $1,500 per pound and two male elephant tusks ...
Elephant poaching: Why it's a big problem | IFAW
According to the 2023 report by C4ADS, the most common countries of origin for shipments of elephant ivory seized from traffickers were Ethiopia ...
The ivory trade is the commercial, often illegal trade in the ivory tusks of the hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal, black and white rhinos, mammoth, ...
Ivory from at least 150 poached elephants seized in the DRC raid
The tusks originated from countries in Southern Africa, which has seen a surge in ivory trafficking in the 2000s, fueled by demand from Asia, ...
Toss the Tusk | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Toss the Tusk is a series of events taking place at zoos across the United States to raise awareness about the elephant poaching crisis and illegal ivory trade.
Tracing DNA of related elephants reveals illegal ivory trafficking ...
The study establishes familial connections between the elephants that are being poached for their ivory tusks and reveals the poaching and shipping practices.
Fighting to end the Elephant Ivory Trade - WWF-UK
One of the key threats to the majestic African elephant is poaching. Fuelled by the ivory trade, around 15,000 animals are killed each year ...
The History of the Ivory Trade - National Geographic Education
Poaching is the illegal trafficking and killing of wildlife. Sometimes animal or plant parts are sold as trophies or “folk medicines” and ...
Ivory trafficking and Terrorism: Africa's White Gold of Jihad
Poaching and wildlife trafficking, especially ivory and rhino horn, are a source of funding for terrorist groups, including al-Shabaab, the al-Qaeda-backed ...
DNA testing exposes tactics of international criminal networks ...
The genetic connections across shipments that they've uncovered exposes an even higher degree of organization among ivory smuggling networks ...
Did a Legal Ivory Sale Increase Smuggling and Poaching? | NBER
The production of black market elephant ivory expanded by an estimated 66 percent following a one-time legal sale in 2008.
Threats to African elephants | WWF - Panda.org
But there has been an upsurge in poaching and illegal ivory trafficking in recent years, driven by increasing demand in Asia, which has led to steep ...
Shocking undercover investigation reveals illicit elephant ivory sold ...
Without proof, the ivory is potentially sourced from illegally killed elephants. Federal law does not address wholly intrastate sales within a ...
Wildlife Trafficker Sentenced To 57 Months For Large-Scale ...
Such weights of rhinoceros horn and elephant ivory are estimated to have involved the illegal poaching of more than approximately 35 rhinoceros ...
Elephant poaching and the ivory trade: The impact of demand ...
Our analysis indicates the strong enforcement measures to combat ivory smuggling temporarily suppressed the tendency of illegal trade while stimulating a steep ...
Buyers of Elephant Ivory | PoachingFacts
Some of the illegally acquired ivory ends up in domestic markets but tens of thousands of kilograms are trafficked to Asia each year (view the African Wildlife ...