WWF approves Ivory sale to China ??

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The ivory to be sold originates from elephants that died from natural causes

or as a result of population management (e.g. problem animal control). None

of the ivory is from elephants deliberately killed to obtain their ivory<

 

*What is the difference between elephants " killed to obtain ivory " and those

" killed for population management " ???

Isn't the purpose same here - *MURDER FOR BODY PARTS ?*

 

Why blame the Government officials when we have enemies within.

 

Azam

 

 

 

 

Link: http://www.panda.org/news_facts/newsroom/news/index.cfm?uNewsID=141381

News ArchiveChina gets green light to buy ivory

15 Jul 2008

China has been approved as a buyer of African Elephant ivory in a one-off

sale from four southern African countries, probably later this year.

 

The decision was taken to accept China at a meeting of the Standing

Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of

Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in Geneva, Switzerland.

 

To gain approval, China had to convince CITES it had put in place adequate

measures to manage regulated sales and tackle any illegal domestic ivory

trade.

 

" China has acted rather successfully against its own illegal domestic ivory

market, " said Tom Milliken of TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network

which operates the Elephant Trade Information System (ETIS) on behalf of

CITES.

 

" Now China should help other countries do the same, especially in Central

Africa where elephant poaching is rampant and Chinese nationals have been

implicated in moving ivory out of the region. "

 

China thus joins Japan in having CITES approval to bid in the one-off sale

for registered government-owned ivory stockpiles from Botswana, Namibia,

South Africa and Zimbabwe.

 

The ivory to be sold originates from elephants that died from natural causes

or as a result of population management (e.g. problem animal control). None

of the ivory is from elephants deliberately killed to obtain their ivory.

 

A massive illegal trade in ivory caused dramatic declines in many elephant

populations in Africa in the 1970s and 1980s, and an international ban on

trade in ivory came into effect in January 1990.

 

" The sight of ivory openly and illegally on sale in many African cities is

likely to be a far more powerful encouragement to those contemplating

poaching and smuggling than a strictly controlled one-off sale, " said Dr

Susan Lieberman, Director of WWF International's Species Programme.

 

" The only way to end elephant poaching is through an effective clampdown on

illegal domestic ivory markets. "

 

Since the CITES trade ban, international commercial trade in ivory has

legally taken place only once, in 1997, when a one-off sale of raw ivory was

approved for Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe.

 

The African Elephant range states who export ivory are required by CITES to

use the revenue derived from the sale exclusively for elephant conservation

and community development programmes within or adjacent to the elephant

ranges.

 

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