The vulnerabilities in maritime transportation and customs are being exploited by criminal traffickers in African sea ports. Container shipping facilitates the movement of wildlife goods, and maritime companies and their assets, wittingly or unwittingly complicit in wildlife trafficking, face legal, financial and reputation risks, according tot the Maritime Executive. Wildlife Trafficking in Africa Poses Risk…
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Tanzania elephant & rhino populations recover
Tanzania presidency reported elephant and rhino populations have begun to recover after a government crackdown dismantled organized criminal networks involved in industrial-scale poaching and transporting the ivory to China. A influential Chinese businesswoman running a poaching network on industrial scale, dubbed the “Ivory Queen” was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Tanzanian court…
Mozambique ivory seized in Cambodia
Cambodian customs have seized more than three tons of elephant tusks from Mozambique following a notice from the US Embassy. The demand for ivory from China and Vietnam is a driving factor in Cambodia’s illegal wildlife trade. Cambodia: Customs seize 1,026 #elephant tusks, weighing over 3.2 tonnes, hidden in a storage container sent from Mozambique,…
Petition to Zuckerberg to ban ivory trade on Facebook
As many other goods ivory trade moved online, and in many cases it is sold via Facebook. The animal defenders have launched a petition addressed to the Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to ban ivory trade from social media. French environmental police seized 500 kgs of #ivory in Nice, France on Wednesday. (Photo: VCG) pic.twitter.com/DPOFLKidCU — China…
MEPs demand to stop ivory trade
Despite the international ban on ivory trade imposed by CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) in 1989, global demand for ivory is fueling elephant poaching. Any legal domestic and international market for ivory stimulates the demand and allows the laundering of illegal ivory. While the EU has been a leader…
Grace Mugabe faces ivory smuggling charges
The former First lady of Zimbabwe, Grace Mugabe, is suspected of smuggling ivory worth millions of dollars. Mugabe's wife Grace under probe for ivory smuggling https://t.co/pjCHIeCXP9 pic.twitter.com/6RXCyUlE4I — AFP News Agency (@AFP) March 25, 2018 Tinashe Farawo, speaking for Zimbabwe‘s Parks and Wildlife Management Authority, said “we opened our investigations and realized that former first lady…
UK to ban ivory items
The sale and export of almost all ivory items would be banned in the UK under plans set out by the government. Today we announced plans to ban the sale of ivory in the UK.The cruel poaching of elephants shames our generationhttps://t.co/N8RtEwHvTU — Theresa May (@theresa_may) October 6, 2017 Environment Secretary Michael Gove has announced…
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