By Masayuki Sakamoto - Japan Tiger and Elephant Fund Executive Summary Japan’s ivory market is one of the largest legal domestic markets open today, at a time when many other nations are closing their markets to protect elephants from the trade in their ivory tusks....
Report by Sone Nkoke Christopher - TRAFFIC Bulletin Vol. 31 No. 1 (2019) African elephants occur in a wide variety of habitats, from tropical swamp forests to deserts (Blanc et al., 2007). According to Thouless et al., (2016), West Africa’s elephant populations are...
By Elephants Without Borders (EWB) Elephants Without Borders Response to Press Release by: Permanent Secretary, Mr. Thato Raphaka Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism 24 February 2019 Today, Mr. Thato Raphaka,...
Eighteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, Colombo (Sri Lanka), 23 May – 3 June 2019 The Elephant Trade Information System (ETIS), established under Resolution Conf. 10.10 (Rev. CoP17) on Trade in elephant specimens and supervised by the Standing Committee,...
Eighteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, Colombo (Sri Lanka), 23 May – 3 June 2019 The Conference of Parties agreed in Resolution Conf. 10.10 (Rev. CoP17) on Trade in elephant specimens that the programme known as Monitoring the Illegal Killing of...
The report ‘Trading in Extinction: The Dark Side of Hong Kong’s Wildlife Trade’, consolidates a large body of pre-existing work and reconciles this with a snapshot of Hong Kong’s seizure data. It aims to update and, for the first time, illustrate the extent...
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...
An update from the African Elephant Database This is the fifth printed African Elephant Status Report (AESR) produced by the African Elephant Specialist Group (AfESG) of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC). Like its predecessors, the AESR 2016 is based on data...
BY M. CHASE, S. SCHLOSSBERG, R. SUTCLIFFE, & E. SEONYATSENG EXECUTIVE SUMMARY During the 2018 dry season, a fixed-wing aerial survey of elephants and wildlife was flown over the core conservation areas of northern Botswana as well as surrounding pastoral lands....
By Iris Ho, Keith Lindsay Executive Summary CITES currently permits trade in live, wild-sourced African elephants. Appendix II elephants from Botswana and Zimbabwe can be traded to “appropriate and acceptable destinations”, and from Namibia and South Africa...