Tag: elephant tusks
Thai prime minister announces end to ivory trade
Weiwei Su March 4, 2013
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra over the weekend pledged to end ivory trade in Thailand, seizing a key opportunity to stem global wildlife trafficking. Her statement came after the call of nearly 1.5 million WWF and Avaaz supporters.
Poachers kill over 11,000 elephants in Gabon
WWF February 6, 2013
A new study confirms what has been long suspected: elephant populations are being decimated to the point that the survival of the species in Central Africa is now in question.
Elephant poaching and ivory trade on the rise
Kathryn Dorrell January 30, 2012
An estimated 4,000 to 12,000 are killed each year for their tusks. In Egypt, failure in law enforcement and new buyers fuel that country's illegal ivory market.