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Amidst meetings for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in South Africa, EIA has released new evidence of Japan’s failure to control illegal ivory trading at a time when Africa’s elephants face extinction. Our report, “The Dirty Secrets of Japan’s Illegal Ivory Trade,” documents a 20-year history of broken commitments by Japan to enact effective controls to prevent poached tusks from being sold domestically or for illegal export. EIA conducted a series of undercover investigations, in which investigators visited four Japanese ivory traders, all of whom boasted of exporting ivory illegally to China and Hong Kong. Investigators also contacted 37 Japanese ivory traders, 30 offered to engage in some form of illegal activity to buy, sell, or fraudulently register a tusk that did not qualify for registration. Watch a short film on Japan’s illegal ivory trade and read the full report here: eia-global.org/images/uploads/Japans_Dirty_Secret_English.pdf
Environmental Investigation Agency US
1 hour ago ·
Thailand: Authorities arrest Cambodians for logging endangered rosewoods
Thai authorities arrested five Cambodians on Sunday for illegal logging along the border in Oddar Meanchey province’s Trapaing Prasat district, a border military officer said.
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CITES CoP17 in South Africa is today (Wednesday) due to discuss additional protections for rosewoods, widely endangered due to demand for China's demand for Hongmu-style furniture.
* Read 'Cycles of Destruction', EIA's timber briefing to CoP17 at ht.ly/2OM1304DUZM
* Learn more about the illegal rosewood trade and Hongmu in the EIA report 'Routes of Extinction' at ht.ly/N2eg304DV8U
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Sun Borann, the Trapaing Prasat border military commander, said the five men, armed with assault rifles, were caught attempting to smuggle luxury-grade wood from the Dangrek Mountains, the mountain range bordering the two nations.
“The group was on its way from Thailand only to be arrested by our patrolling forces at Trapaing Prasat’s O’Svay commune. The five were found with two AK-47s, 21 bullets and two pieces of wood,” he said.
... Many Cambodians illegally cross the border to log Siamese rosewood, deemed to be luxury-grade timber. They also often travel with armed guards who end up in shootouts with patrolling soldiers as they attempt to evade arrest.
Full story at www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30254/thais-arrest-cambodians-for-logging/
#Thailand #Cambodia #rosewood #illegallogging #Hongmu #CoP17 CITES ... See MoreSee Less
6 hours ago ·
Conservationists: It’s time for pangolins to be listed on Appendix I of CITES
If you had to guess, what would you say are the most trafficked mammals in the world? Apes? Elephants? Maybe even rhinos?
The answer is actually pangolins, also known as “scaly anteaters,” according to a new report by San Francisco-based NGO WildAid, which found that more than one million pangolins have been taken from the wild in the past decade, making them the world’s most-trafficked mammal.
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Learn more about the threat to pangolins in these EIA resources:
* Interactive map of illegal trade seizures: Pangolins at eia-international.org/illegal-trade-seizures-pangolins
* 'Armoured against predators – except wildlife criminals' at eia-international.org/armoured-against-predators-except-wildlife-criminals
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Just last month, for instance, as many as 657 pangolins — some 2.3 metric tons-worth of the animals — were found vacuum sealed in plastic and frozen in five large freezers in a house in Indonesia.
Hunting and poaching of pangolins for illegal international trade — the majority of which will end up China and Vietnam — is the primary threat to pangolins, according to WildAid. “Overexploited by illegal trade in their keratin scales for medicine and as an exotic meat, conservationists agree that swift action is required to save these animals,” the report states.
Indeed, at its World Conservation Congress in Hawaii earlier this month, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) voted to approve a motion in support of transferring all eight pangolin species from Appendix II to Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES), which would ban all commercial trade in pangolins.
CITES is holding its 17th Conference of Parties (COP17) right now in Johannesburg, South Africa. The IUCN motion calls for the listing of all eight pangolin species on Appendix I of the Convention “in order to contribute to the conservation and sustainability of wild populations through control of the international trade in pangolins and their parts and products.”
Read in full on Mongabay.com at news.mongabay.com/2016/09/conservationists-its-time-for-pangolins-to-be-listed-on-appendix-i-of-c...
#China #Vietnam #Africa #pangolins #CoP17 CITES ... See MoreSee Less
6 hours ago ·
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