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Woah! China just announced it will shut down ivory sales in 2017.
That’s huge: traffickers just lost the biggest market for their bloody wares and soon elephants will be a LOT safer. Read more about this elephant “game changer” http://bit.ly/2hE1fF6
We did it! Thanks to all of your hard work we've set a new Guinness World Records title for largest display of origami elephants - 78,564! Make sure to visit 96elephants.org to #JoinTheFold and keep this momentum going.
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“We’re dealing with something rather tragic,” said artist Talo Kawasaki, "and I wanted to bring more attention to that messaging.” Watch as he creates an incredible entry to the Elephant Origami Challenge.
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After the 12-day CITES conference, Simon Hedges, WCS Ivory Trade Analyst developed these conclusions.
“The decisions, resolutions and proposals adopted at the 17th meeting of the CITES Conference of the Parties (CoP17) made it a little better to be an elephant. However, I was disappointed to see some media reports focus, erroneously, on one controversial proposal’s outcome to deem this a disastrous CoP for elephants.
Read on for seven reasons why the Parties’ actions at this CoP were a huge win for elephants.
Namibia’s and Zimbabwe’s proposals to sell their ivory failed – whatever one thinks of the arguments for and against a legal trade in ivory, it is clear that now is not the time to reopen any trade in ivory with tens of thousands of elephants being killed illegally every year for their ivory, law enforcement capacity to combat poaching and trafficking still much too weak in most countries in Africa and Asia, and demand in Asia still much too high.
CITES’s vital National Ivory Action Plans (NIAPs) were much improved – these CITES plans actually ‘have teeth’ and require problematic ivory source, transit, and consumer countries to clean up their act or be held to account or face trade suspension (‘sanctions’). Before this CITES CoP, the process for entering and exiting the NIAP process was unclear and, critically, the evaluation process for assessing progress with implementation was too reliant on self-assessment by the countries themselves. This has now been addressed with independent assessments by appropriate experts now included in the process.
CITES called for closure of domestic ivory markets – even though it is not a binding Resolution, its passing by consensus here in Johannesburg sends a huge signal from the CITES Parties, including from China as the largest ivory market in the world, that ivory will have nowhere to go in future. It calls for closure of markets if open markets contribute to illegal trade; all such markets have a significant risk of laundering of illegal ivory..
Illegal trade in live Asian elephants finally attracting serious attention from CITES – several Decisions were made by the CoP including a call for a registration system for captive elephants, and NGOs and IUCN offered support for this important initiative.
The divisive and unnecessary “Decision-making mechanisms and necessary conditions for a future trade in African elephant ivory” known as the ‘DMM’ was finally abandoned – this process, which began in 2007 and could have resulted in further one-off ivory sales, is no longer relevant given the severity of the elephant crisis, which has escalated to unprecedented levels since 2007. The DMM was a waste of scarce resources and an unnecessary and divisive distraction from the real priorities which are to secure elephant populations in key sites across Africa, combat trafficking, and greatly reduce demand for ivory.
Trade in live elephants from countries whose elephants are in Appendix II will now be better controlled – CITES will begin focusing on what constitutes acceptable destinations for these animals, hopefully preventing trade to questionable circuses in Asia.
The problems posed by mammoth ivory trade is now receiving more attention – CITES is now urging all Parties to consider expanding domestic trade bans, where they exist, on elephant ivory in order to include mammoth ivory and other look-alikes, in order to prevent mislabelling and laundering. Other decisions should result in updated identification, training and forensic training materials for the identification of mammoth and elephant ivories to help prevent elephant ivory being sold illegally under cover of the mammoth ivory trade.
What does this powerful resolution mean in real terms?
Big steps were taken at this year’s CITES conference. Most notably, urging the closure of domestic ivory markets. To break down exactly what that means, we got the details from WCS’s VP of International Policy, Susan Lieberman.
SUCCESS
Together we submitted 129,867 comments in support of closing domestic ivory markets at CITES and your voices were heard! USFWS took a strong stand for elephants, and all CITES members today agreed on a formal endorsement to close domestic ivory markets.
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Historic Ivory Bust
District Attorney Vance said, “As the international elephant population hovers near extinction, too many ivory traders continue to profit from the slaughter of these beautiful, defenseless animals. My Office and our DEC partners will do everything we can locally to protect this endangered species and end this moral, ecological and geopolitical crisis. In Manhattan, that means advocating for tougher laws, and aggressively prosecuting those who violate them. I thank our partners at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the Wildlife Conservation Society for their work on these investigations and their efforts to stop poaching and shut down the illegal ivory market in New York and across the world.”
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Another Wildlife Win!
The #ENDWildlifeTrafficking Act has passed the US Congress, now on to President Obama for a signature.
Thanks to Representatives Ed Royce and Eliot Engel for their support. Show yours and ask POTUS to act: http://bit.ly/2dhvr4j
Wildlife win!
Thanks to your efforts, the US Senate has passed the END Wildlife Trafficking Act!
Help us say thanks to Sen. Chris Coons and Sen. Jeff Flake who led the bill. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Sen. Lindsay Graham for including authorization for prosecutors to use wildlife crime as a predicate offense for money laundering prosecutions. http://bit.ly/2dhvr4j
Breaking news
Last night, a big victory for elephants! At the IUCN World Conservation Congress, countries from around the world called for the closure of domestic ivory markets.
"The global conservation community is stepping up," said WCS President and CEO Cristian Samper. "No more domestic ivory sales. Elephants have had enough of the ivory trade and so has the world."
Add your voice in the lead up to CITES #CoP17: http://bit.ly/2bQpcVQ
A Lost Century
Because forest elephants are one the slowest reproducing mammals in the world, it will take almost a century for them to recover from the intense poaching they have suffered since 2002, a new study says.
It takes female forest elephants more than two decades to begin reproducing. They then only give birth once every five to six years.
The findings are from a first-ever study of forest elephant demography, co-authored by researchers from WCS and published today in the Journal of Applied Ecology. They come as leaders from around the world are set to gather at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Hawaii to discuss domestic ivory markets, among many other things.
The research team here used decades of intensive monitoring data that recorded births and deaths of the elephants using the Dzanga Bai, which translates roughly as "village of elephants," in Central African Republic.
"This work provides another critical piece of understanding regarding the dire conservation status of forest elephants," said the study's lead author, Andrea Turkalo. Turkalo is a WCS Associate Conservation Scientist who has collected detailed data on the Dzanga elephants over several decades despite tough logistical challenges and political instability.
Forest elephants are one of two elephant species in Africa. Due to poaching, they suffered an estimated population decline of 65 percent between 2002 and 2013 according to a study led by WCS.
Pupdate: WCS detector dogs Jenny (shown here) and Dexter have aided in their first ivory bust. Thanks to the duo, authorities in Tanzania seized four elephant tusks. Good dogs. Read more about them: http://bit.ly/2bCb1GM
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Happy World Elephant Day! Having a trunk isn’t always easy.
Marguerite Apa has taken on a dangerous challenge in the Republic of Congo. Read her story, and join us in saying thanks for her incredible dedication.http://bit.ly/2asE0dR
#ElephantOrigamiChallenge
We want to break the Guinness World Record for the largest display of origami elephants, but we need your help! Before you get folding, there are a couple of things you need to know.
Once you’ve got the details, help us spread the word!