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Rangers find unlikely sponsor

Africa Claire Van, Den Heever & Claire Van Den Heever - 10 Aug 2018

China is the biggest market for ivory yet Chinese business people are funding the war on poaching

World Wildlife Fund uses fake Singapore ivory store in awareness campaign

Article Agency - 8 Aug 2018

The outlet called Ivory Lane purportedly offered items including earrings and necklaces for sale and had a well-produced website

Paradigm shift as African countries throw their weight behind ivory ban

Africa Staff Reporter - 26 Mar 2018

The EU and UK are fuelling the illegal trade through their continuing sale of legal ivory items

Corrupt officials to blame for illegal ivory trade, says Cites

Article Sipho Kings - 11 Jul 2016

Research shows that legal sale of ivory increased smuggling by 71%.

Legal ivory trade led to sharp rise in poaching

Article Sipho Kings - 17 Jun 2016

The thinking behind the move was widely accepted at the time, and 'has only been proved wrong in hindsight' - researchers

Outrage at Japan’s ivory sales

Article Justin Mccurry, Oliver Milman & - 28 Jan 2016

Yahoo sold sold an estimated 12 tonnes of elephant tusks and fashioned pieces of ivory on its Japanese auction site

Chinese officials went on illegal ivory ‘buying sprees’

Africa bogdan TagDiv - 6 Nov 2014

Officials who visited Tanzania with President Xi Jinping took advantage of the lack of security checks to buy large amounts of ivory, say activists.

E-firm profits from slaughter of rare species

Article Justin Mccurry - 19 Mar 2014

Rakuten, the Japanese e-commerce company that owns Play.com and Kobo, is the world's biggest online retailer of elephant ivory and whale meat.

China aids Kenya in ivory poacher crackdown

Article bogdan TagDiv - 11 Feb 2014

A Nairobi ivory bust – China's first wildlife crime arrest – was part of a month-long, international anti-trafficking operation.

Woman caught with ivory at OR Tambo

Article Sapa - 13 Dec 2013

A 58-year-old woman has been arrested at OR Tambo International Airport in Gauteng for possession of 40kg of ivory.

Hundreds of tusks intercepted en route to Cambodia

Article Staff Reporter - 13 Dec 2011

Malaysian authorities say they have seized hundreds of African elephant tusks worth about $1.3-million that were being shipped from Kenya to Cambodia.

Africa in crackdown on wildlife crime

Article Staff Reporter - 17 Nov 2008

A tonne of ivory items and 57 suspects were netted in a four-month operation against wildlife crime, the Kenya Wildlife Service said Monday.

Ivory stockpile confusion

Article Staff Reporter - 27 Oct 2008

It is thought that smugglers are able to use gaps in data on countries' official ivory stockpiles to sell their own illegal ivory off.

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