A shipment of illegal ivory, rhino horns and leopard skins worth HK$41 million (over US$ 5million) was seized in Hong Kong’s second big bust of endangered species products in a month. Some 1,120 ivory tusks, 13 rhino horns and five pieces of leopard skin weighing a total of 2,266 kilograms were confiscated at Kwai Chung Container […]
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 […]
U.S. colonel, former US defense attaché in Nairobi, has been caught and convicted of smuggling thousands of pounds worth of ivory. David McNevin was arrested with 21 pieces of ornately carved elephant tusks as he boarded a flight to the Netherlands, from Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International airport, according to officials. He was fined 30,000 Kenyan […]
Over 1,000 ivory tusks, mainly from BABY ELEPHANTS, were seized by Hong Kong customs in their biggest haul in three years. The tusks, which weigh over two tons and are worth more than US$2 million, were discovered at the city’s main port in a cargo container from the African country of Togo. Ng Kwok-leung, customs’ […]
Chocolate-shaped ivory seized in Macao (China) Two South African travelers failed to smuggle 34 kilograms of ivory into Macao on Wednesday, as local customs officials found 15 suspicious chocolate boxes in their luggage. According to customs officials, a total of 583 chocolate bar-shaped objects were inside the boxes, which were later identified as ivory worth […]
After the rhinos, the elephants…We told you so last week! South Africa is considering the sale of over 16 tons of ivory. Less than three years to the next CITES meeting and the ivory race has already begun. If in three years the CITES parties will decide for another one-off sale of ivory, they will fuel […]
Zimbabwe is collecting on average 1,1 tons of ivory monthly! The government is sitting on 62,3 tons of ivory valued at approximately $15,6 million, and it is running out of storage space, with less than three tons to fill up the remaining space. This news gives us an idea of the poaching that is going on […]
July 2nd, 2013 The UN (UNEP) launched yesterday a new ivory demand-reduction campaign in Shanghai, with posters on the metro saying “Buying Illegal Ivory is Killing Me”, with a powerful photo of an elephant. It’s time to say loud and clear: these campaigns don’t work! Yes, these campaigns address the real problem, which is the […]
Here’s an idea from the Elephant Action League (EAL) on how to get rid of some ivory stocks in Africa. Why not to put them in the “deal” every time those countries receive huge foreign aids or investments? President Obama in South Africa just announced a $7 billion initiative over five years to double access […]
Four ivory traffickers arrested in Douala, Cameroon, in two operations within one hour! We celebrate the crackdown. 16 tusks and many curved items seized including chopsticks. In the picture you see two of the traffickers with just their part of the seizure. Douala is always difficult as traffickers are getting more careful and smarter (well not too […]
