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Ivory trade in Ghana, 1690. Elephant ivory has been exported from Africa and Asia for millennia with records going back to the 14th century BCE.Transport of the heavy commodity was always difficult, and with the establishment of the early-modern slave trades from East and West Africa, freshly captured slaves were used to carry the heavy tusks to the ports where both the tusks and their ...
A federal appeals court on Wednesday declared unconstitutional a New York law that largely banned sales and in-store displays by antiques dealers of ivory and rhinoceros horns in the state. The ...
The ballot measure largely banned, among other things, the ivory trade in the state. [2] Prior to the passage of Measure 100, the only nonnative animal product banned from sale in the state was shark fin. [2] Measure 100 followed the unsuccessful proposal of similar legislation in the Oregon State Legislature in 2015. [2]
In February 2014, the U.S. Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service announced a ban on the trade in elephant ivory within the United States by prohibiting all imports and—with narrow exceptions—exports and resales by auction houses and other dealers. [37]
New York strengthened laws and increased penalties regarding interstate ivory sales in 2014. ... State news: Lawsuit claims NY discriminated against white men in cannabis industry as setbacks mount.
Joyce Bell, 67, had claimed to be selling items made from bovine bone.
The largest poaching incident in Kenya since the ivory trade ban occurred in March 2002, when a family of ten elephants was killed. [8] Illegal elephant deaths decreased between 1990, when the CITES ban was issued, and 1997, when only 34 were illegally killed. [15] Ivory seizures rose dramatically since 2006 with many illegal exports going to ...
United States: In November 2013, the United States employed an industrial rock crusher to pulverize six tons of amassed ivory. Although the US does not ban the domestic sale of ivory, it is illegal to bring ivory into the country.