by Adam Cruise | Jan 25, 2019 | News
By Dave Lawrence A year after China imposed a ban on the commercial sale of elephant ivory, surveys indicate Chinese citizens are simply traveling to neighboring countries to buy ivory, and now the Chinese government is working with wildlife nonprofits to launch...
by Adam Cruise | Jan 25, 2019 | Commentary
By Adam Cruise and Ambre Sanchez It is increasingly recognised by governments and organisations around the world that legal domestic ivory markets are linked to rampant poaching for elephant tusks that has seen almost one-third of Africa’s elephants wiped out in a...
by Adam Cruise | Jan 24, 2019 | News
By Claire Baker-Munton The discovery of trinkets carved from the tusks of extinct woolly mammoths earlier this year is just the latest evidence that Cambodia is playing a growing role in the international illegal ivory trade In the first days of 2019, researchers at...
by Adam Cruise | Jan 24, 2019 | Documents
Eighteenth meeting of the CITES Conference of the Parties, Colombo (Sri Lanka), 23 May – 3 June 2019. Amendment to Annotation 2 pertaining to the elephant populations of Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Read full proposal for amendment here: E CoP18 Prop...
by Adam Cruise | Jan 24, 2019 | Reports
Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) We identified over 250 seizures of more than 12 tonnes of ivory in 16 European countries between January 2000 and October 2017. These seizures represent ivory sourced from approximately 1,800 elephants – but likely reflects a...
