The Dirty Secrets of Japan’s Illegal Ivory Trade

World’s Largest Ivory Seizure: Over Nine Tons of Ivory Seized in Vietnam

• Ivory
• Wildlife
• Vietnam

Last week, the wildlife conservationist community, and more importantly the world’s elephants, lost one of their most important and avid champions when Daphne Sheldrick, savior of hundreds of orphaned African elephants, died on April 12 in Nairobi at the age of 83.

• Elephants
• Wildlife
• West Africa

A new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), Authorized Plunder, documents how the sale of 180,000 rosewood logs in Guinea-Bissau, enabled by the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), is fueled by high-level corruption, encourages illegal logging, and threatens local communities.

• Forests
• Rosewood
• West Africa
• CITES
• Investigation

Japan’s demand for hanko made of elephant ivory is a modern phenomenon driven by the country’s ivory industry.

• Elephants
• Ivory
• Japan - Wildlife

EIA Calls on Japan to Urgently Close its Ivory Market

• Wildlife
• Japan - Wildlife

EIA strongly supports the Wildlife Conservation and Anti-Trafficking Act of 2019 (H.R. 864) introduced today by Representatives John Garamendi (D-CA) and Don Young (R-AK).

• Elephants
• Ivory
• Legality Policies
• Wildlife

A new report by EIA, Authorized Plunder, documents the sale of 180,000 rosewood logs in Guinea-Bissau, enabled by the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), is fueled by high-level corruption, encourages illegal logging, and threatens local communities.

• Rosewood
• West Africa
• Timber
• CITES
• Investigation

日本における象牙製ハンコへの需要の興りは、 象牙業界がもたらした現代的な現象である。

• Elephants
• Ivory
• Wildlife
• Japan - Wildlife
• Investigation