Ivory price surge fuels slaughter of elephants

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What fuels elephant slaughter?
Bayoubuzz
DAR AS SALAAM, Tanzania — It is a bloody industry that is emptying the wilderness of a mighty beast — the noble elephant. But for the traders and the poachers behind the slaughter it is, simply, business. The cost of Africa's poaching crisis is huge — but so ...
Minister for Natural Resources and Wildlife, Lazaro NyalanduIPPmedia
Sweeney asks for ban on ivory salesLegislative Gazette

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Elephant Slaughter, Corruption, and Illegal Ivory Trade Trigger ...
Fort Mills Times
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today appealed to Secretary of State John Kerry and Dana J. Hyde, the Chair and CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), to defer approval of additional aid funding of up to $450 ...
Elephant Poaching Epidemic Prompts Objections by The Environmental ...PR Newswire (press release)
Tanzanian police seize more than 200 elephant tusk...

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Sh44 Million Ivory 'Was From 160 Elephants'
AllAfrica.com
The 314 pieces of ivory, allegedly found in possession of Mombasa businessman Feisal Ali Mohamed, were extracted from 160 elephants, a court heard on Wednesday. The trophy, weighing 2,152 kilograms and valued at Sh44 million, was harvested from ...

The News
Chinese appetite for ivory blamed for rising poaching of elephants
The News
Mizengo Peter Pinda, Prime Minister of the United Republic of Tanzania together with H.E. Hui Liangyu, Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China and .. Chinese diplomatic and military staff went on buying sprees for illegal ivory while on official visits to ...
Chinese officials 'went on illegal ivory buying sprees'Yahoo News
Chinese demand for ivory is devastating Tanzania's elephant populationThe...

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Tanzania urges China to curb ivory demand to save elephants
Reuters UK
DAR ES SALAAM A Tanzanian government minister described elephant poaching on Thursday as a national disaster, and urged China to curb its appetite for ivory. The east African nation's elephant population shrank from around 110,000 in 2009 to a little ...
African Wildlife Foundation, WildAid Launch Anti-Poaching Campaign with ...Africa Science News Service
National parks wooing tourists to visit wildlife...

>The price of ivory from African elephants has tripled in the world’s biggest market -- China -- reports say.

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