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COP17 ivory trade proposal at risk of repeating 2008 mistake – study

21 June 2016 | Traveller24 | Clarissa Hughes | FREE TO PUBLISH CREDIT CAT

On Heritage Day this year South Africa will be hosting the 17th meeting of the CITES Conference of the Parties (CoP) in Johannesburg which will address the international legal wildlife trade. Among the various proposals are those put forward by Swaziland to be granted permission to trade in rhino horn, and by Namibia and Zimbabwe ... Full Story →


 

Trade rings death knell for Africa’s elephant

22 June 2016 | SA Breaking News | Clarissa Hughes | FREE TO PUBLISH CREDIT CAT

A paper published last week by the National Bureau of Economic Research in the U.S.A. holds unequivocally that permitting a legal trade in some wildlife species will be those species’ undoing, proclaiming that the notorious once-off legal sale of ivory in 2008 by Botswana, Namibia, South African and Zimbabwe actually triggered an increase in poaching. The authors ... Full Story →


 

Calling out Ivo Vegter’s fractious fulminations

21 June 2016 | Daily Maverick | Don Pinnock | FREE TO PUBLISH CREDIT CAT

Ivo Vegter passes himself off as an environmental journalist, but consistently backs the right of those with money and power to destroy the environment. I have no other choice but to challenge his choice of sources, his facts and his ethics. When the desire to be both conservative and outrageous overtops the need for objective ... Full Story →


 

In Fighting Illegal Ivory, EU Lags Behind

17 June 2016 | National Geographic | Adam Cruise |

The European Union is the largest exporter of legal ivory, leading to concern that it’s fueling a parallel illegal trade—and the slaughter of elephants. Wildlife advocates are pushing for the EU to shut down its ivory trade, which contributes to the slaughter of some 30,000 African elephants a year. While China and the United States have taken steps in ... Full Story →


 

Botswana: Sankuyo community uninterested in lobbying for hunting

15 June 2016 | Tourism Update | Tessa Reed |

The Sankuyo Tshwaragano Management Trust has rights over the NG 33 and NG 34 concessions in the vicinity of Botswana’s Okavango Delta. The Sankuyo Tshwaragano Management Trust, which has rights over the NG 33 and NG 34 concessions in the vicinity of Botswana’s Okavango Delta, is not planning to lobby the government to lift a ... Full Story →


 

Does Legalization Reduce Black Market Activity? Evidence from a Global Ivory Experiment and Elephant Poaching Data

June 2016 | National Bureau of Economic Research | Solomon Hsiang, Nitin Sekar |

Black markets are estimated to represent a fifth of global economic activity, but their response to policy is poorly understood because participants systematically hide their actions. It is widely hypothesized that relaxing trade bans in illegal goods allows legal supplies to competitively displace illegal supplies, but a richer economic theory provides more ambiguous predictions. Here ... Full Story →


 

After legal-ivory experiment, black markets thrive from greater demand, less risk

14 June 2016 | Princeton University | Morgan Kelly |

To curb the destructive illegal ivory trade, the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) announced in 2008 that it would suspend its ban on the international trade in ivory to allow a one-time legal sale of 108 metric tons of stockpiled ivory to China and Japan from four African nations. This partial-legalization ... Full Story →


 

Killing for Trophies: An Analysis of Global Trophy Hunting Trade

14 June 2016 | IFAW | IFAW |

The result of a comprehensive analysis of the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Trade Database, Killing for Trophies provides an in-depth look at the scope and scale of trophy hunting trade and isolates the largest importers of animal trophies worldwide. The report found that as many as ... Full Story →


 

Missing the Mark: African trophy hunting fails to show consistent conservation benefits

13 June 2016 | Democratic staff of the House Committee on Natural Resources | Raul M Grijalva |

A report by the Democratic staff of the House Committee on Natural Resources NOTE: This report has not been officially adopted by the Committee on Natural Resources and may not necessarily reflect the views of its members Released: June 13, 2016 Executive Summary Hunting of imperiled animals can save species from extinction. It is a ... Full Story →


 

Trophy Hunting Fees Do Little to Help Threatened Species, Report Says

13 June 2016 | The New York Times | JADA F. SMITH |

WASHINGTON — Advocates of trophy hunting, and even the United States government, have long justified the killing of protected wildlife in Africa by saying that taxes and fees from the hunts help pay for larger conservation efforts. But a new report by the Democratic staff of the House Natural Resources Committee challenges those claims, finding ... Full Story →


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