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World › Tanzania, Zambia seek one-time ivory distribution to Japan, China
Tōkyō :: Japan | 4 days ago
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Tanzania and Zambia have proposed they be allowed to sell ivory of African elephants, whose international deals are prohibited under the Washington Convention, just one time to Japan and China, sources close to the issue said Saturday. While the proposal...
Tags: Zambia, Japan, Tanzania, african elephants, China, Tōkyō, Ivory, Elephants, Environment
Customs file complaint vs. ivory smugglers
Manila :: Philippines | 6 days ago
Credibility Customs police on Thursday lodged a complaint against two suspects over the alleged illegal importation of about 3.5 tons of elephant tusks from Tanzania, the justice department said. Two shipments of ivory that were fraudulently declared as plastics...
Tags: Philippines, Manila, Tusk, Elephant, Smuggling, Customs, International law, Ivory, Law Crime
Thais arrested for ivory smuggling
Bangkok :: Thailand | 8 days ago
Credibility Thai police said Tuesday they have arrested a Thai couple in Bangkok on charges of illegally trading African ivory after a tip-off by U.S. authorities. Police on Monday picked up Kanokwan Wongsaroj, 38, at work, while her brother-in-law, Samart Chokechoyma,...
Tags: african ivory, Thailand, Bangkok, Traffic, Environment, Thai baht, Law Crime, Ivory, Chatuchak Weekend Market, Elephant
Lighting up
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | 8 days ago
Credibility Africa is in the area of the pre-epidemic and so we should prevent the epidemic," he told the BBC World Service. "We should not wait until there is an epidemic and then work on it...Tobacco-related cancer was one of the key topics discussed at a recent...
Tags: Tanzania, Kenya Wildlife Service, Dar es Salaam, Elephant, Elephants, Poaching, Kenya, Animal rights, Animal welfare, Ivory, Environment, Cigar, World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, Tobacco advertising, Tobacco smoking, Tobacco, Smoking, Cigarette
Demand for illegal ivory soars in booming China
Guangzhou :: China | 11 days ago
Credibility Tucked into a grimy building in Guangzhou, a small band of Chinese master carvers chip away at ivory tusks with chisels, fashioning them into the sorts of intricate carvings once prized by the Chinese emperors. A passion for ornaments such as these is...
Tags: China, Africa, Guangzhou, ivory trade, Traffic, Environmental Investigation Agency, CITES, Poaching, Elephant, Environment, Ivory, Animal rights, Animal welfare
Chinese gangs seek to corner ivory trade
New Delhi :: India | 12 days ago
Credibility Until recently, Japan was the market for almost 85 per cent of the ivory leaving India illegally. Craftsmen there used to make hankos, or name seals, which was prized by the Japanese. But with more and more Japanese learning to sign their names, the demand...
Tags: Wildlife Trust of India, China, India, New Delhi, Animal rights, Animal welfare, CITES, Tusk, Poaching, Elephants, Ivory, Environmental Investigation Agency
Africa: Illegal Ivory Trade Rising
Washington :: WA :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility Illegal Ivory Trade Rising 12 November 2009 press release The illicit trade in ivory, which has been increasing in volume since 2004, moved sharply upward in 2009, according to the latest analysis of seizure data in the Elephant Trade Information System...
Tags: Washington, Elephant, Environment, Traffic, Ivory, CITES
Michelle Obama has a WHITE 4th Cousin
Some long-lost relatives of Michelle Obama have recently been identified, and they’re blond and blue-eyed. First a genealogist made headlines with the news that the first lady's great, great-grandmother was a slave from George named Melvinia....
Tags: Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Obamas, White House, Washington, Slaves, African Slaves, Ivory, Melvinia, Debbie Shields
Michelle Obama is a Slave Girl
Michelle Obama can trace her lineage to a female slave sold as a young girl from a South Carolina plantation and sent to Georgia. As a teenager, Melvinia Shields became impregnated by a white man, possibly her master, and those two are the great-great-great...
Tags: Michelle Obama, Slave, African Slaves, Ivory, Washington, white house, first lady, racism, president, obama
Damning UN Reports at Center of Guns for Gold Leaked
These reports were at the center of a BBC report which claimed that the UN covered up that its troops in DR of Congo gave arms to militias and smuggled gold and ivory. The allegations were based on confidential UN sources, involve Pakistani and Indian...
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