PRESS RELEASE DONGGUAN, CHINA – Jan. 6, 2013 – In a surprise move the Government of China destroyed today 6.1 tons of ivory and other wildlife products confiscated from illegal trade at a public ceremony in the city of Dongguan, near Guangzhou. Official delegations from ten countries attended the event, including the U.S., UK, India, Kenya, Gabon […]
According to an official release from China’s State Forestry Administration, China is about to burn some of its ivory stockpile. The destruction will be in Guangzhou on the 6th of January 2014, and UNEP Goodwill Ambassador Li Bingbing will be promoting the event via social media. The Elephant Action League is launching a campaign to destroy […]
The first destruction of ivory in the U.S. is now planned for November 14th. Six tons will be crushed at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, near Denver. The crushing was previously suspended after the shutdown began on Oct. 1 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will destroy government-held stockpile of ivory that it […]
A new important initiative against the ivory trade. The Elephant Action League strongly supports a new protest and a petition to get the Hong Kong government to burn their ivory stockpile and ban the domestic trade. The total stockpile could be as big as 25 tons. The petition organizers are two young girls, Lucy Lan […]
The Obama administration said on Monday it would destroy all 6m tons of its stocks of seized ivory in effort to stop illegal elephant poaching The ivory destruction, announced at a White House event was part of a broader effort by the administration to elevate wildlife trafficking to urgent national security concern. Destroying the ivory would […]
Kerala Wildlife Department is mulling a proposal to set afire a huge pile of ivory at its disposal to pre-empt its passage into the hands of smugglers or carvers in the future. “As per Wildlife Act, sale and carving of ivory is a crime. So the ivory in our stock has zero value even though […]
BREAKING NEWS: Philippines to burn five tons of confiscated tusks worth $10 million. Environment Secretary Ramon Paje said the seized ivory tusks will be crushed by a road roller and burned in the presence of foreign experts and anti-ivory trade advocates on June 21 at the Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center in Quezon City. The […]
