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China’s Ivory Ban: A Work in Progress

Diplomat (Rozelle, N.S.W.), 2019-03

Copyright 2019 - The Diplomat; distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC ;ISSN: 1446-697X

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  • Title:
    China’s Ivory Ban: A Work in Progress
  • Author: Bielicki, Kevin T
  • Subjects: Airports ; Arrests ; Bans ; Elephants ; Endangered & extinct species ; Fund raising ; Ivory ; Poaching ; Purchase intention ; Smuggling ; Wildlife conservation ; Wildlife trade
  • Is Part Of: Diplomat (Rozelle, N.S.W.), 2019-03
  • Description: Due to the rampant poaching of elephants during the 1980s, the “Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species and Wildlife Flora” (CITES) placed elephants in their “Appendix I” category in 1990. In order to raise money for elephant conservation, CITES approved a “one-time sale” of 49.4 metric tons of stockpiled ivory in 1999 from Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe to Japan. The Shuidong Syndicate is very much alive and well; however, China’s ban on ivory is making a difference. Since the ban went into effect last year, a poll done by National Geographic “found that 72 percent of respondents would not buy ivory, compared to 50 percent when the poll was conducted last year, before the domestic trade ban went into effect.” [...]a report done by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and “TRAFFIC,” a wildlife trade monitoring network, found that eight out of 10 people interviewed agreed that the ban “will make them completely stop buying ivory… suggesting that the ban has a significant impact on the reported purchase intention.”
  • Publisher: Tokyo: Tribune Content Agency LLC
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1446-697X
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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