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LeJu – Stylishly sustainable jewellery - Feb 21, 2008 Easier (press release),Vegetable Ivory resembles elephant ivory in both colour and hardness and is the only 100% sustainable alternative. Tagua is another name for the seed or nut Ivory Trade Continues Its Reach Across Myriad African Nations - Jan 30, 2008 PR Newswire (press release),And so it goes for a week in the world of today's elephant ivory market. Michael Wamithi, global elephants program manager for IFAW (International Fund for Mammoth Ivory Figurines - Own A Piece Of History - Jan 27, 2008 Melodika.net,Genuine mammoth ivory has replaced the void created by the global ban on elephant ivory. There are sculptors who have shifted base from elephant ivory Illegal ivory trade still rampant - Jan 31, 2008 afrol News,...conference of the parties in June to approve nearly a decade-long suspension of trade in elephant ivory is not enough," Wamithi told IFAW website. Conservation on the Agenda, as 17 African Nations Meet to Talk ... - Feb 6, 2008 Common Dreams (press release),...seals, and other animals. To learn more about the critical elephant ivory issue, and to take action to save elephants, visit: www.ifaw.org today. African Elephant Countries Strategize to Thwart Poaching - Feb 6, 2008 Environment News ServiceBAMAKO, Mali, February 6, 2008 (ENS) - Elephant conservation and anti-ivory trade initiatives are the focus of a meeting that opened today here with 'The Ivory Poaching Wars' Airing on BBC World this Friday, 8 ... - Feb 5, 2008 E-Wire (press release),5 -/E-Wire/-- BBC World presents "The Ivory Poaching Wars," an Earth Report documentary that tracks illegally poached elephant ivory on its journey from Three Elephants Killed by a Train in India - Feb 17, 2008 Wildlife Extra,Habitat loss, human encroachment and a booming trade in elephant ivory are the main causes for the decline and continued endangerment. Blame George Washington For Everything - Feb 18, 2008 Wonkette (satire),Which is why he wore painful dentures made of hinged hippo-and-elephant ivory plates and real true teeth from dead humans, pigs, horses and donkeys. Swimming with sharks - Feb 12, 2008 Irish Independent,..."I think that, like the ban on elephant ivory and hunting whales, we will eventually see a worldwide ban on shark-finning. The question is whether that will Dinosaur and Robots Dispatch - Feb 5, 2008 Wired NewsOnce upon a time, the decorative mounts on Highland bagpipes were made from elephant ivory then, when makers realized the errors of their ways, Govt to issue fresh guidelines to tourists - Jan 26, 2008 Times of India,...with an aim to create awareness among tourists against buying wildlife souvenirs like tiger teeth, elephant ivory carvings or turtle shell accessories. Tough Measures To Combat Rhino Poaching At Kaziranga - Feb 6, 2008 NEWSPost India,Rhino horn is also much fancied by buyers from the Middle East who turn them into handles of ornamental daggers, while elephant ivory tusks are primarily Unsavoury souvenirs - Jan 29, 2008 The Daily Star,...against buying wildlife souvenirs like wreaths, ornaments and key-ring of oyster, deer horn, elephant ivory carvings and turtle shell accessories etc. Ivory: A Legend Of Past And Future by Mike Resnick - 01 Dec 2007 Crows NestIn 19th century Kenya there was a fabled giant pachyderm called the Kilimanjaro Elephant with enormous tusks. Author Mike Resnick even shows a picture of Top of the cops: ivory number 1 in Belgian CITES seizures - Nov 21, 2007 Traffic,Elephant ivory is the most commonly seized CITES-listed wildlife product in Belgium, a new report by TRAFFIC has found. The report, Le commerce illegal et Russia diary - Nov 24, 2007 Telegraph.co.uk,Not your bog-standard elephant ivory, mind, but mammoth tusk ivory. Yes, actually made from extinct mammoths. With this kind of nouveau richeness around, Uganda: UWA Recovers 108 Pieces of Ivory - Nov 9, 2007 AllAfrica.com,..."We have recovered 108 pieces of ivory, but further investigation should proceed to establish the source and amount of the elephant ivory," uwa's law Evolution of Plastics as Art - Nov 28, 2007 Korea Times,Called celluloid, it was successfully used to imitate elephant ivory, amber, coral, jet and tortoise shells. ``This early plastic afforded working-class Environment Canada investigation into illegal importation of 30000 ... - Oct 12, 2007 Canada NewsWire (press release),...a $9000.00 fine yesterday after pleading guilty in Richmond Provincial Court to illegally importing over 30000 pieces of African elephant ivory. Govt vows to curb wildlife trafficking - Sep 24, 2007 Daily News - TSN,Poaching for bush meat and other products such as elephant ivory, rhino horns, skins, live animals and other animal products is serious and rampant in our Weird, weird West - Oct 6, 2007 Pueblo Chieftain,...hollow, exploding cartridge called the “Rocket Ballâ€?; a hand-engraved, 24-karat-gold-plated Colt Bisley pistol with elephant-ivory grips that belonged Interpol officials told to cooperate in fighting illicit wildlife ... - Sep 25, 2007 IPP Media - Guardian,...the field of wildlife conservation that included poaching for bush meat and other products such as elephant ivory, rhino horns, skins and live animals. التØÙ? التذكارية غير المشروعة - 20 Aug 2007 بي بي سي العربية,They say buying items such as elephant ivory carvings can be catastrophic for wildlife, as well as being illegal. In the last year UK customs confiscated SA to benefit from ivory sales - Aug 15, 2007 Independent Online,South Africa has received the go-ahead to sell its stockpiled elephant ivory stocks to Japan, but it has not done so because it is waiting for provinces to METI reluctant to incinerate 3 tons of seized elephant ivory - Aug 8, 2007 The Daily Yomiuri,The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry is pondering whether to destroy or preserve 3 tons of smuggled ivory--an amount equal to the tusks of about 100 Warning about cruel souvenirs - Aug 15, 2007 CBBC Newsround,Charity WWF says buying things such as coral and elephant ivory carvings is bad for wildlife, as well as illegal. In the last year UK custom officers seized Buyer beware: WWF seeks help of British tourists to stamp out ... - Aug 15, 2007 WWF International,Coral, elephant ivory carvings, traditional Chinese medicine and snake skin accessories are among the top ten illegal wildlife trade items being brought Warning over wildlife souvenirs - Aug 16, 2007 World Travel Guide,The conservation charity WWF says purchasing items such as coral and elephant ivory carvings is catastrophic for wildlife, as well as illegal. 1. Holidaymakers warned off illegal wildlife goods - Aug 15, 2007 Guardian Unlimited,The items confiscated included snakeskin goods, elephant ivory carvings and, top of the list with the highest number of seizures, 605kg (more than half a Becoming cold to the world - Jul 30, 2007 Caledon Citizen,The trade in elephant ivory has no bearing on the price of concert tickets or gasoline. In this day and age, one would think most of us would travel and get Charity urges holidaymakers not to buy wildlife souvenirs - Aug 16, 2007 Earthtimes.orgAmong these so-called souvenirs are coral, elephant ivory and skin products, traditional Chinese medicine and live reptiles, the report added. British tourists 'harming endangered species' - Aug 16, 2007 Manchester.com,Nearly 1000 live reptiles almost made it into the UK along with over 200 elephant ivory and skin products. Heather Sohl, wildlife trade officer at WWF, Warning on species souvenir threat - Aug 15, 2007 Guardian Unlimited,WWF said Customs also seized 221 elephant ivory and skin products, 97 items of traditional Chinese medicine and around 158000 illegal plants such as Requiem for the rain forests? - Jul 29, 2007 Atlanta Journal Constitution,She said the CITES agreement is effective in such high-profile cases as seal fur, elephant ivory and tiger parts. But, she added, "the debate is about Brookline man leads charge to bring legendary sword home - Aug 15, 2007 Brookline TAB,The 25-inch long sword, made of steel, gilt brass, leather and elephant ivory, was officially unveiled at a ceremony Tuesday. The ceremony kicked off the Artist’s aim to save threatened wildlife - Aug 3, 2007 Surrey Advertiser,He said a tiger skeleton would reach $30000 and elephant ivory and rhino horns are highly sought after. “We are not thinking about what we are doing. Unearthing the hole truth about the city - Aug 4, 2007 Toronto Star,There are samurai swords, Chinese chess pieces carved from Indian elephant ivory, and Venetian glass. The displays are cheerful and personal, Poachers prey on rhinos in flooded sanctuary - Aug 7, 2007 Gulf News,Rhino horn is also much fancied by buyers from the Middle East who turn them into handles of ornamental daggers, while elephant ivory tusks are primarily Zoos kill healthy tigers for the skin trade - Jul 23, 2007 Times Online,We prefer to have tiger skins in our iving rooms, than real ones roaming wild, deer heads on the walls than real deers, elephant ivory tasks in a cupboard Overboard Sewage at Colonial Pemaquid Could Become Thing of the Past - Jul 25, 2007 Lincoln County News,In the museum, carved Yoruban elephant ivory, Portuguese salt, Native American arrowheads and the red clay pipes typically smoked by the French suggest A whale of a tale - Jul 23, 2007 Dalhousie News (press release),In any case, it’s coveted by collectors who’ll pay in the thousands of dollars for one, especially since the trade in elephant ivory has been made illegal. Wanton rhino poaching alarms Assam wildlife authorities - Jul 23, 2007 Indian Muslims,Elephant ivory tusks are primarily used for making ornaments and decorative items. Profits in the illegal rhino horn trade are staggering - rhino horn sells [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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