Please take a few minutes to check out the new report ''Ivory: The Grey Areas - A study of UK auction house ivory sales' from the group Two Million Tusks.

You can find report at the link and EIA believes its findings will make an important contribution to the UK Government's ongoing consultation seeking to ban all UK ivory sales and exports.

Find out about the proposed ban and make your voice heard in the consultation - visit banukivorysales.co.uk for information.

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IVORY - THE GREY AREAS For 90% of the ivory lots investigated, auction houses did not satisfy the legal requirement to demonstrate proof of age for pre-1947 ivory. Visit www.twomilliontusks.org to read the report.

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South Korea clamps down on smuggling of ivory & wildlife products, seizes 23.4 tonnes since June

South Korea has confiscated a combined 23.4 tonnes of smuggled wildlife products as part of the global movement against illegal trading of endangered species, the customs agency said Thursday.

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... The Korea Customs Service has joined the CITES global project to clamp down on such smuggling in the Asian region since June and caught a combined 23.4 tons of ivory, rhino horns and other wildlife goods.

Full story at www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20171019000453

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India: Owls from Assam trafficked to Delhi for sacrifice during Diwali

NORTH LAKHIMPUR, Oct 17 - They are called ‘Hoodu’ in Assamese, a nocturnal bird that makes mild shrieks in the night from trees in the backyard in Assam.

But the bird has two different species found in Assam – the Brown Fish Owl and Indian Scoops Owl called generically as ‘Hoodu’ in the State.

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These birds are facing threats following their trafficking from the State just before the festival of lights – Diwali, for a reason which is deeply rooted in age-old superstition. For long the Brown Fish Owl and Indian Scoops Owl have been trafficked from Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts before Diwali to be sold in illicit wildlife markets outside Assam, mostly in New Delhi, the national capital. This time too, the Brown Fish Owls and Indian Scoops Owls have been trafficked since August from the boundary areas of Lakhimpur and Dhemaji due to their high demand outside.

The birds were caught in their juvenile state and sent outside to be raised as grown-up adults by the time of the Diwali, claim local wild life protection activists and conservationists here.

Read in full at www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=oct1817/state050

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