Saturday, October 31, 2015

Mass murder of rhinos and elephants..........only for their tusks..........


    1. The ivory trade is the commercial, often illegaltrade in the ivory tusks of the hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal, mammoth, and most commonly, Asian and African elephants.

      Ivory trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory_trade
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  1. Ivory trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory_trade
    Wikipedia
    The ivory trade is the commercial, often illegal trade in the ivory tusks of the hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal, mammoth, and most commonly, Asian and African elephants.

    The History of the Ivory Trade - National Geographic ...

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    National Geographic Society
    In 2012, investigative journalists Bryan Christy and Aidan Hartley explored the illegalivory trade and the plight of Africa's elephants, and documented their work ...


    Obama Announces Major Restrictions on Ivory Trade | TIME

    time.com/3972237/obama-ivory-trade-restrictions/
    Time
    Jul 25, 2015 - President Obama announced sweeping new measures to stem the ivory trade on Saturday, including a ban on the interstate sale of most ivory ...

    Stop the Ivory Trade | Bloody Ivory : Stop Elephant Poaching ...

    www.bloodyivory.org/stop-the-ivory-trade
    A decade later, widespread poaching had reduced that figure by more than half. Just 600,000 African elephants remained. Africa's savannahs and forests were no longer sanctuaries for elephants; they had been turned into graveyards. In 1989, a worldwide ban on ivory trade was approved by CITES.

    In the news
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    A notorious elephant poacher and ivory trafficker has been arrested by Tanzanian law ...
    The Ivory-Funded Terrorism Myth
    International New York Times - 2 days ago
    More news for ivory trade

    Ivory Trade - Born Free Foundation

    www.bornfree.org.uk/animals/african.../ivory-trad...
    Born Free Foundation
    Every year, tens of thousands of elephants are brutally killed for their ivory. Between 2008 and 2013, the estimated death toll ranged between 30,000 and ...

    Ending the ivory trade - International Fund for Animal Welfare

    www.ifaw.org/.../ending-ivory-tra...
    International Fund for Animal Welfare
    IFAW strives to protect African and Asian elephants against poachers who destroy these animals for their ivory. This work includes engaging local communities ...

    Illegal ivory trade driven by China demand - Al Jazeera ...

    www.aljazeera.com/.../illegal-ivory-trade-driven-china-deman...
    Al Jazeera
    Sep 17, 2015 - Conservationists say China's love of ivory - considered a symbol of status and wealth - is helping fuel an illicit global trade worth billions of ...

    Agony and Ivory

    www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/08/elephants-201108‎ - Vanity Fair
    The organizations and African government authorities that are supposed to be monitoring and controlling the poaching and the ivory trade are underfunded, under-manned, lacking, their many critics ...

    Ivory Worship

    ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/.../ivory/christy-t...‎ - National Geographic
    My goal in meeting Garcia is to understand his country's ivory trade and possibly get a lead on who was behind 5.4 tons of illegal ivory seized by customs agents in Manila in 2009, 7.7 tons seized there ...

    Can elephants survive a legal ivory trade? debate is ...

    news.nationalgeographic.com/.../140829-ele...‎ - National Geographic Society
    Cleaning up corruption throughout an ivory trade network that permeates countries across the globe would take decades. At current poaching levels, the African elephant doesn't have ...

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