by Adam Cruise | Mar 4, 2022 | Reports
By Masayuki Sakamoto, Executive Director of the Japan Tiger and Elephant Fund (JTEF) Executive Summary Africa’s elephants continue to be in crisis due to poaching for trading their ivory, and domestic markets for ivory have been closing worldwide to combat this...
by Adam Cruise | Jul 27, 2021 | Commentary
By James A. Baker III and Hillary Rodham Clinton – Washington Post As the world watches the Tokyo Olympics, our thoughts turn to the international peace and cooperation that the Games have come to symbolize. Each of us, in the administrations we served, wedded...
by Adam Cruise | Aug 23, 2019 | News
By Miranda Green, The Hill The European Union and Japan will be able to keep their domestic ivory trades open despite a push to end the market globally at this year’s international wildlife trafficking meeting in Geneva. The decision, concluded Wednesday at the 18th...
by Adam Cruise | Aug 22, 2019 | News
By Xinhua GENEVA, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) — Amid an ongoing international wildlife conference in Geneva to better protect the world’s vulnerable species, dozens of African countries on Wednesday called on Japan to save the elephants by closing its domestic ivory...
by Adam Cruise | Apr 9, 2019 | News
Rachel Nuwer, National Geographic Starting July 1, anyone in Japan who wishes to register and sell a whole elephant tusk must first prove its age through carbon dating. According to Ministry of the Environment officials, the new measure is meant to ensure that...
